Comments on: Laptop webcam works with AMSN in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:59:19 +0000

Torbjorn,

I’m not sure why, but initial and overlay command in my blog post should have two hyphens before them. The wordpress blog removes one hyphen. Did you try with two hyphen? I updated my post http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2007/04/02/problem-with-ati-driver-after-recent-update-in-kubuntu-feisty-fawn/
, so visitor won’t issue the command wrong.

If that’s not working, then give Envy a try (http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html). The only problem with envy is, you have to uninstall the driver installed by envy, each time you upgrade Ubuntu.

By: Torbjorn

Torbjorn — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:07:33 +0000

Hello again.

Thanks for your assistance. I’ve been trying for days to make fglrx work according to your instructions, without luck. Sometimes I get the errormessage that xorg.conf doesn’t exist (when using sudo aticonfig -initial) and other times I’m told that fglrx is already initiated and that aticonfig will therefore terminate. No matter what I do, the screen always turn black on logon and the whole box freezes..

Any ideas? Sorry for bothering you, but you are the only one I have found that seems to have solved the driver issue with X1600.

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:36:43 +0000

Refer to my post http://www.blog.arun-prabha.com/2007/04/02/problem-with-ati-driver-after-recent-update-in-kubuntu-feisty-fawn/
for the manual commands. Make sure you have ethernet connection to install the fglrx driver through apt-get and install xorg-driver-fglrx. Once installed, reconfigure the xserver using sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Select fglrx as the video driver when provided with the list. Don’t select ATI. Once you reconfigure, run the commands starting with sudo in the link provided above.

By: Torbjorn

Torbjorn — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:12:38 +0000

Thanks for a good post!

I have a stationary set up with Gutsy. I have the Radeon X1600, though not the Mobility version. I have been unable to set it up, using both fglrx and the ATI drivers. X simply crashes.

Can I ask what is you manual set up? Might it work for the stationary card, not only the Mobility?

By: Arun

Arun — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:00:58 +0000

You are welcome!!!

By: Seren6ipity

Seren6ipity — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:32:44 +0000

Hey Arun,
Thanks for the post. It partially helped me figure out the problem with my amsn.

By: io

io — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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