Comment 130 for bug 284408

7500 chip has been, and is still supported in the Windows driver. Not sure
what your talking about.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:58 AM, F-3582 <email address hidden> wrote:

> Sorry to tell you, but support for your card has been dropped aeons ago
> and I don't think ATI plans to bring back support. Even the Windows
> driver doesn't support it anymore, as far as I know.
>
> --
> r3xx Hardware does not work with fglrx [EPR#257839]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284408
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in AMD fglrx video driver: Triaged
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> Status in Update Manager: Invalid
> Status in "fglrx-installer" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in "update-manager" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Intrepid: Won't Fix
> Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Released
> Status in fglrx-installer in Ubuntu Jaunty: Triaged
> Status in update-manager in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Using fglrx-installer 2:8.543-0ubuntu4, r3xx hardware such as Radeon 9500,
> Mobility Radeon 9700 and similar don't work
>
> They are not explicitly listed in the modaliases, so they will not be
> offered by Jockey. In the past, this hardware did work with the fglrx
> driver. Now the fglrx driver indicates memory errors when trying to load.
>
> Here is a snippet of what the memory error will look like:
> [ 1024.699204] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers:
> 1169 MBytes.
> [ 1024.700616] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
> [ 1024.700683] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when
> allocating device heads
> [ 1024.700757] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices
> failed
>
> WORKAROUND:
> You'll need to completely remove the proprietary driver and [re]install the
> open-source driver. As a plus, many users report improved performance with
> the open-source drivers in Intrepid versus ATI's fglrx in Hardy for 2D
> purposes such as normal desktop use and video playback.
> 1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
> 2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> 3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
> 4. Restart.
>
> TEST CASE:
> 1. Install intrepid w/ r3xx hardware.
> 2. attempt to activate fglrx and reboot verifying unable to start X
> 3. Activate intrepid-proposed
> 4. update to new fglrx version, verify that X starts up properly
>