Please....I need help again.....

[windowsblows]

Okay. I am now up and running with ubunto 8.10 and I even got the dvd player (Totem) to work. VLC I got to load the player but it starts to play a movie then it freezes? Does anyone know how to fix that?

The second problem I have is that currently I have to use the onboard intel video card because when I try to boot up Ubuntu when the monitor and Bios is setup for my radeon 9250 ati card then it freezes up when trying to load Ubuntu. Anyone know what I need to do to get Ubuntu to work with my graphics card? I know the ati card sucks anyway but this computer is too old to be spending money on another card.


Any help is appreciated thank you! By the way I am very impressed with Ubuntu!!!! I love this so much and now I am Windows free!!!!

[rokytnji]

First thing I would try is System>Administration>Hardware Drivers

and see if any show up for your Radeon card. If nothing shows up I would go to

System>administration>Synaptic Package manager

Hit the searcg button and paste in

x86-video-ati

And install that driver. Then hook up my moniter to the ATI card and see if it boots after it is installed. I don't run one of these cards so that is the best suggestion I can give to ya.

[Rubberman]

What rokytnji said. You need to get an updated ATI driver for your video card. A lot of folks aren't too thrilled with their Linux drivers these days (though apparently that situation is improving), but if you want to do anything resembling full-motion video you will need it. The default drivers provided with the OS are often older, or beta quality. You might want to check on the ATI web site for Linux drivers for your card.

FWIW, I run an nVidia board. Without the native nVidia drivers, at least ones that are more up-to-date than those available from my system's package manager, I cannot run full-motion video, nor can I run dual 24" HD displays like I do. The same goes for the ATI drivers as far as I know.

[windowsblows]

I checked ati website and it hasa drivers for my ati card except it specifically says the drivers are for redhat and SUSE linux versions. I am kinda nervous about trying these drivers because I don't want it to make the other video card not work. I am still looking at options. I did get totem to play but can't get VLC to stop freezing after about two seconds into the movie.

I was curious what is ACPI and how do I check to see if it is working and if i can turn it off. I read somewhere that someone turned it off and VLC then started working. The reason for getting Ubuntu to play nice with my video card is that the on board card has 8mb of ram and as such does not play video that well. At least not very big. I can not go to full screen with that card.

[whych]

From what I can see from ati website, the driver is distro independent. Download it and then get the ldevelopment kernel source as well as modules and basic development tools and run the install as root from a terminal in runlevel 3.
(I use suse and only use ubuntu occasionally, so don't know too much of the package management in ubuntu). It should be distro independent.
Remember, you will have to re install every time a new kernel is installed.

[devils casper]

Install envyng package through Synpatic Package Manager. Execute envyng command in Terminal. It will re-install correct ATI driver.

[Rubberman]

I checked ati website and it hasa drivers for my ati card except it specifically says the drivers are for redhat and SUSE linux versions. I am kinda nervous about trying these drivers because I don't want it to make the other video card not work. I am still looking at options. I did get totem to play but can't get VLC to stop freezing after about two seconds into the movie.

I was curious what is ACPI and how do I check to see if it is working and if i can turn it off. I read somewhere that someone turned it off and VLC then started working. The reason for getting Ubuntu to play nice with my video card is that the on board card has 8mb of ram and as such does not play video that well. At least not very big. I can not go to full screen with that card.

Xorg will allow you to use more than one card, though it requires configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf which you are not yet prepared to do. In any case, it shouldn't damage your on-board card, and you can add support for it later if you wish. Anyway, check out what DC said below about the envyng package. I'm not familiar with it, but that might help you get the correct ATI driver for your system.

[windowsblows]

Thank you all for your suggestions/help! I will try the envyng and see if that installs the correct drivers. I did read somewhere where someone said that they figured out that the onboard video card is interfering with the ati card. So someone told them to edit the black.lst. Maybe it is not the drivers but the intel video card that is messing up Ubuntu and causing the ati card not to work? This could be a possibillity because I would get errors with this card in windows even though I went into the bios and set the card to boot off the pci video I don't think bios is turning off the onboard card but booting off the one card and while leaving the other as still detected and maybe this is causing the problems????

I know that if I hook the monitor up to the ati card and tell bios to boot off the intel card the screen will be blank but then the video will switch over to the card that I have the monitor hooked up to. This happens when windows loads not Ubuntu.

Could that be the problem? Below is what I found on another site but from what I can tell is that it will turn off my onboard card and only recognize my pci card but I would not know how to revert back to the onboard card if this did not work. Here's the code:

probably found solution

add lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist intel_agp
blacklist agpgart

edit your xorg.conf and change lines

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Radeon 9250 PCI"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

or something similiar which is your case...

poweroff, plug-in your ati radeon 9250 pci card and turn-on. hope this will work

[windowsblows]

I gave envyng a trie and it installed the drivers and well it still did not work with the ati card. I then rebooted and had the monitor then hooked upto the onboard video card and well it put me in low resolution but I fixed that but I still wonder if it is a conflict? I have a coworker who said he would let me try an extra card he has and see if that works any better.