Public bug reported: I use a HP nc6400 laptop. When installing Edgy, the only X driver that was usable was the vesa driver. When trying the ati driver, X would not start (no screens). After installing the fglrx driver it worked. fglrx identified the video adapter as such:
(WW) fglrx: More than one matching Device section for instances (BusID: PCI:1:0:0) found: ATI Technologies, Mobility Radeon X1300 (--) Chipset MOBILITY RADEON X1300 (M52 714A) found. Possibly related is Bug #68075, which talks about a similar card producing "unknown video card" with lspci. ** Affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Edgy: the free ati driver does not support the ATi Mobility Radeon X1300 - vesa used as fallback https://launchpad.net/bugs/70391 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs