I'm pretty sure the AMD/ATI driver doesn't support anything below the Fire
GL 9500. Here's a thread that may help
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=727371



On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote:

> AFAIK, there is no proprietary driver.  The only one I can find is this:
>
> xserver-xorg-video-ati
>
>  - which is already installed.  There is a program to install proprietary
> drivers.  I brought it up and it was empty.


> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Sounds like a driver issue. Are you using the open source version or the
>> proprietary version of the driver? Whichever one you are using try the other
>> version and see what happens.
>>
>>
>> On 06/23/2011 10:29 AM, Scott Vargovich wrote:
>>
>>  I have a new (to me) Dell Latitude D600 laptop running Ubuntu 11.04.
>> Here is the video controller from lspci:
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250
>> [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
>>
>> I can get compiz to work, but I like being able to have the Desktop Cube
>> and Rotate Cube enabled.  The Desktop Cube requires OpenGL and Composite to
>> be enabled.  When I go to enable Composite, my xfce window manager crashed
>> to the point where I have no choice but to hard-reboot.  Anybody have
>> similar issues to this that could help me get it figured out.  Until then, I
>> need to use metacity.  Assistance is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
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