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, >> -- >> <>< Scott Vargovich <>< >> ------------------------------------------ >> OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E >> ------------------------------------------ >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> >> >> -- >> It isn't about it being free. Rather, its about the freedom it brings. >> >> We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we >> created them. ~Albert Einstein >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >> > > > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
