VMware Guest Display

Following the instructions here I have gotten pretty close.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195843

But 1268x735 is still not as good as 1280x800 :-(

ATI Install Steps

Following this guide using method 2: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_Installation_Guide

Downloaded the newest drivers: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run

Verify that the 'universe' and 'multiverse' are set. Using 'System -> Administration -> Software Sources'

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential fakeroot dh-make debhelper \
debconf libstdc++5 linux-headers-generic

Had do follow this link(http://emmetcaulfield.net/tech/Ubuntu64+ATI/) to get around the following error:

dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open debian/changelog to find format: No such file or directory

$ bash ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --extract ati-driver
$ cd ati-driver
$ cp -r arch/x86/usr/X11R6/lib arch/x86_64/usr/X11R6/
$ ./packages/Ubuntu/ati-packager.sh --buildpkg gutsy

The above code worked.

sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.433-1*.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.433-1*.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.433-1*.deb

The above code failed.

Where are the *.deb files located?

Looking the processing above, I see that everything was put into the /tmp/ati_driver_installer directory.

It works, but I got the following warning:

dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/etc/X11/Xsession.d/70fglrx_32bit_dri': Directory not empty

I was told to do the following to get rid of old fglrx deb, but there are none.

sudo rm /usr/src/fglrx-kernel*.deb

Compile, now to install. Save everything just in case life ceases as I know it ceases to exists.

Must verify after everything is done that the following links are present

sudo ln -sf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/volatile/fglrx.ko

I will have to recompile, do the above steps again, for each new kernel update. Must keep an eye out for kernel updates.

I have not done the step to get around the soft links being delete.

Now it is time to reboot.

I now have some trash in two spots near and at the bottom of the screen. :-(

Looks like my links may have gotten blasted :-(

OK, I have put in the link fix. Rebooting.

Did not reboot. I had to force the machine to shutdown.

It has rebooted and now the trash is gone.

The trash is back :-(

What is the max resolution of my screen? 1280x800

Finally everything looks right and the trash seems to be gone for good.

I did all this so I could run XP in WMServer at the max host res of 1280x800, but I still cannot.

Video Driver

I seem unable to get the proper video resolutions.

This is a link to my hardware settings: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Q106/BladeK8F/1013912Rsp2.shtml

My video card:
ATI RS485M
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 Graphics with
up to 128 MB of Shared Video Memory

To see what Ubuntu sees: System ==> Preferences ==> Hardware Information
==> RS480 PCI Bridge ==> RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]

See the correct card but doesn't sam RS485M

This is a link to a wiki for the proprietary drivers for ATI: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page

I am having trouble figuring this out.

RS480 is the PCI number.

Search on "Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=542338

Found this page which refers to the chip as a Radeon Xpress 200M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_chipset

The chip doesn't seem to currently support DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure)

Do I have to disable it when using fglrx?

Goggle has a Linux search: http://www.google.com/linux

Here is the Ubuntu install instruction for the ATI drivers: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu

fglrx is already installed.

stan@stan-laptop:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6473 (8.37.6)


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