ATI, FGLRX,s-video, VGA-out

[Larry Hartman]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 06:44:47 am Larry Hartman wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 05:02:03 pm Larry Hartman wrote:
> > My fglrx driver, installed with 8.04 produces horrible b/w swiggly lines
> > on the s-video and no output on VGA-out, although it recognizes the tv or
> > monitor that is plugged in to either port.
> >
> > The latest fglrx driver produces b/w picture on s-video...slight
> > inprovement. I am trying to use my laptop for presentation in a few
> > weeks. Obviously this arrangement is less than suitable.  Does anyone
> > have any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > HP dv8000 with ATI X200M.
> >
> >
> > Larry
>
> wholly intolerable...
>
> Envyng broke during install, so I uninstalled the installed portions...now
> the packaged ATI driver does not show up in the proprietary drivers gui, it
> installs from the package manager, but without direct rendering.
>
> Larry

Took me an hour to sort it all out.  I tried again with Envy and achieved a 
successful install.  Then I deinstalled it, afterwards the proprietary driver 
widget finally showed the ATI driver.  I checked the appropriate box and 
restarted.....successful boot but left with black screen after x-server 
start.  Rebooted under recovery and reconfigured x.  Restarted again and 
discovered that envy left some source packages installed.  When I deinstalled 
those and rechecked the ATI box in the proprietary drivers widget--and after 
another restart--finally brought everything back to where I started.

I am gonna print my presentation with notes and present them as handouts.  I 
will wait for kubuntu 8.10 with updated fglrx to readdress my s-video and 
vga-out problems.  I suspect that it is a driver issue, although I haven't 
ruled out broken hardware.

Did I ever say on the list how horrible the ATI X200M is?

Larry