fglrx

  1. Bug #1069199
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1069199

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Edson (edsonmarquezani) wrote : Re: Unity does not start after installing fglrx-updates

It's a ATI Radeon HD 7700M.

Actually, I found that I'm running Intel (i915) driver for acceleration (my video setup is hibryd - it's a notebook with onboard and dedicated cards). The FOSS driver (radeon) is detected by Xserver, but acceleration got disabled (I guess my card isn't supported).

Once I install fglrx driver, I got the following error from X:

[ 3.252] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/extra-modules.dpkg-tmp/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/extra-modules.dpkg-tmp/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension

As far as I've read around, this is a imcompatibility between Xserver 1.13 and the upstream Linux driver from ATI. Latest version (9-beta) says to be compatible fully with Ubuntu 12.10, but it seems it actually isn't.

I don't wanna try to downgrade Xserver, as it is probabily going to break my system. Is there any option but waiting the upstream driver to be fixed?

Thanks.