Can't get new Radeon 9600se working

[Lex Hider]

Swapped a powercolor for an asus card and all problems went away.

I suppose the moral to this story is to only buy from manufacturers that
you know.


On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 21:00 +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Does anyone else have a Radeon 9600se that they have working well with
> Ubuntu?
> 
> It's only a couple of hours old so I don't know much about setting it
> up. It's just replaced an old pci voodoo3 which has been working
> flawlessly with ubuntu for the past few weeks. I haven't tried any other
> OS' to see if it's ubuntu specific but I'll probably bung on a copy of
> XP on a partition some time tomorrow.
> 
> 1)
> Anyway, after a fresh Warty install I get GDM and log in to gnome and
> the colours are REALLY washed out. I don't even know that that's the
> right way to describe it. For example, the cpu monitor on the panel is
> now light yellow. Probably the best indication is to go into desktop
> background chooser and into color selection. Instead of seeing all the
> primary and main colours there aren't any reds, browns, greens. 
> 
> 2)
> I also tried out the binary driver thing from the wiki. I rebooted and
> everything was working except after a short while the screen would turn
> itself of. When I turned the monitor on and off it came up with a non
> responding screen whited out. I couldn't kill X-windows or change to a
> console.
> 
> Additionally any experimenting with GL, [screensavers, tuxracer]
> instantally locked the system and I was forced to hit the reset button.
> 
> 
> 
> Obviously the color thing is more important to me than the 3d thing
> right now,  which could just be a crappy ati driver I suppose.
> 
> Thanking you in advance,
> 
> Lex.
> 
> PS
> Oh yeah, the v/ card is a powercolor if that matters.
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