Asked before ? Mobility X1400 with Open Source Driver

[JCTWeb]

Current setup:

Dell E1505
ATI X1400
1GB Ram
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

When I tried using the Open-Source ATI drivers that came with gutsy, I can't start X because "no screens found". A quick peek at the Xorg.0.log indicates the ati driver doesn't appear to *actually* support this card? (well..it doesn't show up in the list of cards it's trying to find)

Anyway, I've been poking around in this forum for a bit but I'm not really seeing any "HowTo" for getting the open source driver to work for the X1400.

Is there a different Open-Source driver I'm supposed to be using ? What's the avivo driver?

I apologize if this question has been asked, but I'm just not finding anything in the forums and/or from googling to discover why my laptop refuses to use the Open-Source driver (it defaults to vesa)

TIA,
Jon

[mile]

you should install/compile latest version from git repo

watch out,becouse make install copies lib to /usr/local... ,which is not right location in ubuntu




http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=843&num=1

[JCTWeb]

you should install/compile latest version from git repo

Install what? Avivo or ati ?

[Michael]

RadeonHD. Follow that mentioned Phoronix how-to above. Avivo is a dead driver now and RadeonHD is where the development efforts are being focused on.

[JCTWeb]

Thanks - I'll post if I have any issues.

[JCTWeb]

So far, so good - I can suspend/resume now!

No 3d - but I don't really care about that. I haven't tried plugging in my second monitor yet.

Any good howto's for this driver's configuration in xorg.conf?