X1950Pro AGP (Sapphire) Weirdness in Linux

I got this X1950Pro AGP, with one of those PCI-e/AGP bridge chips. This is what I get when using the ATi Driver.

Used driver on a vanilla Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Install:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1950 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6334 (8.34.8)

Anything 'newer' doesn't work at all. I can use the numlock key but virtual terminal switching doesn't work (numlock on/off behavior) I can't do anything anymore and have to hard reset. I have a spare X1950GT laying around that does actually work a little better, in that it doesn't have the weird drawing, any newer driver however also crashes my system.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• ATi
• AMD
• X1950Pro

[oliveroms]

Solved it a while ago. This isnt' ubuntu, it's gentoo, so dpkg won't help me much :)

Solution was to adjust AGP memory size in the bios for this driver release. Changing it to 512 from 256 solved it.

The card is now dead btw ironically, got an X3850 now :)

[narcarsiss]

mate run in terminal "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" with out the quotes select card ati and go from there i hade the same problem last week it helped. oh and when it says to setup the screen select simple makes life easyer.