GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H w/ ATI HD 3300

[Beleriand]

Good news,

that Removing Mesa Drivers thing solved it. Fglrx is now in use after logging in. I just turned desktop effects on.

Nice one! Thx 4 help!
Beleriand

[Kano]

That means you installed the xgl server once? Well the script does not uninstall xserver-xgl as thats not the default...

[Beleriand]

I don't know if it was me or the standard hardy install, never mind.

[buckstuckinaz]

Beleriand and Kano,

Thanks for the help. Beleriand, thanks for the posts over in the Biostar thread pointing here. I've been busy with work/family so I haven't had a chance to try the ATI drivers. I'm going to give it a shot later today. I'll post success or fail info here. I still consider myself a linux noob, so we'll see how rough it is.

[buckstuckinaz]

Good news here too,

Version 8.9 worked for me on the Biostar MB and Ubuntu 8.04.1 64. Verified with fglrxinfo and ran fgl_glxgears. Saw the spinning cube w/gears; just a little flickering. I enabled desktop effects, those seem to be working fine (a little flickering here and there). Next step is video, MythTV, and HDMI.

I didn't have to remove the Mesa drivers.

Thanks for the help guys.

[Kano]

Well you never "remove" the mesa drivers, the passage was just about removing Xgl, the title is just misleading. The fglrx package replaces the lib with another one - using dpkg-divert. So the mesa package is certainly _not_ removed.