I downloaded the .iso file for Ubuntu 24.10 and then used dd to copy that file to the corresponding disk name (like
dd if=name.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=64K status=progress
) for example, using a NVIDIA AF210-1924D3L3(DDR3) graphics card. After the fresh installation I tried logging into the GUI desktop, and I only get a cursor on the screen.
I am able to log into CTR-AlT-F3 tty3 character console only. I have tried to make several attempts to get the driver to work for DVI and HDMI. (Note: that VGA would be a bonus, but for my particular application it does not help at all due to the monitor configurations.)
I tried several approaches (including 1) reinstalling ubuntu-desktop, 2) instaling the ubuntu-desktop and reinstalling it after that running:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart
The live disk boots fine and its graphics driver is fine for DVI. So the main issue seems to be a driver issue. But I have banged my head on the wall enough to switch video cards.
Is there some way to get this card working again?
Update: I changed video cards to the:
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]
It works fine for both DVI ports. (The video card has two DVI ports and one HDMI port). For the splash screen up-to login, it also works fine for HDMI. After login to the graphical interface, the HDMI LG IPS Led monitor just shows blank.
The system details are as follows:
# System Details Report
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Report details
- Date generated: 2024-11-28 13:47:05
Hardware Information:
- Hardware Model: ASUS All Series
- Memory: 8.0 GiB
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-4170 × 4
- Graphics: AMD CAICOS
- Disk Capacity: 1.1 TB
Software Information:
- Firmware Version: 1103
- OS Name: Ubuntu 24.10
- OS Build: (null)
- OS Type: 64-bit
- GNOME Version: 47
- Windowing System: Wayland
- Kernel Version: Linux 6.11.0-9-generic
From the "Displays" section in the System Information, only the main DVI display is being recognized and not the HDMI display which makes me conclude that there is a problem with the driver after login.
From How can I find what video driver is in use on my system?
stephen@stephen-All-Series:~$ sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] password for stephen:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 resolution=1920,1080
resources: irq:31 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e20000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
The suggestion for using 'modinfo' outputs a lot of information which does not seem helpful. So also for this second card I am not able to get steady output once logged in.
When I first logged in everything worked so the system somehow has changed. So now I am updating the question also for this new graphics card -- how to get it to work in the GUI environment after login.
From Reference 1 I got additional information:
stephen@stephen-All-Series:~$ hwinfo --gfxcard
12: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.386]
Unique ID: VCu0.3OOhiWSYJK3
Parent ID: vSkL.xltNQFyR_DB
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]"
Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
Device: pci 0x6779 "Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM]"
SubVendor: pci 0x174b "PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology"
SubDevice: pci 0xe206
Driver: "radeon"
Driver Modules: "radeon"
Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf7e20000-0xf7e3ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xe0ff (rw)
Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 31 (117938 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00006779sv0000174Bsd0000E206bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: radeon is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe radeon"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: amdgpu is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe amdgpu"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #12
The commands
modprobe radeon
as well as
modprobe amdgpu
just come up to a blank new line indicating perhaps some sort of problem there.
Further, I tried reinstalling the driver from the manufacturer's site giving an error which definitely suggests a driver issue; but how to fix this still?
~/Downloads/amd6450$ sudo ./AMD-Catalyst-15.9-Linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.pizySG
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver-15.201.1151.............................................................................
=====================================================================
AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager
=====================================================================
error: Detected X Server version 'XServer 1.21.1.13_64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer 1.21.1.13_64a:none:6.11.0-9-generic:)
Installation will not proceed.
Update: Following one of the suggestions to improve this situation with the second video card, I referenced the following links attempting:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/test
sudo apt update
Links:
ubuntu-14-04-5-16-04-and-newer-on-amd-graphics
I filed a ticket at Oibaf Support Site after the steps below did not activate the HDMI screen:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/test
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Now I am checking the suggested Downgrade X Server Instructions option.
I also tried both package updates (for example):
https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/xenial/main/updates/xserver-xorg-lts-utopic
I am not currently finding the suggestions at the top very helpful to resolve the issue. I really need a few steps to test and then to provide feedback rather than references which have a lot of possibilities that do nsudo apt-get --purge remove octave3.2ot resolve the issue.
It seems that one of the basic difficulties that I am encountering is that I am unable to downgrade the X-Server to something supported by the manufacturer's site. The older X-Server drivers have been deleted on the ppa site it seems.
Thus on the manufacturer's driver, I am unable to get around the warning:
error: Detected X Server version 'XServer 1.21.1.13_64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer 1.21.1.13_64a:none:6.11.0-9-generic:)
Installation will not proceed.
The link (with one answer) downgrade X-Server link has instructions that fail:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-utopic libqt5gui5 libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic libgles2-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386 libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386 libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic
The step to attempt to downgrade the X-server from the link results in a failure "Note, selecting 'libqt5gui5t64' instead of 'libqt5gui5'" as follows:
$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-utopic libqt5gui5 libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic libgles2-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386 libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386 libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libqt5gui5t64' instead of 'libqt5gui5'
E: Unable to locate package libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic
E: Unable to locate package libgles2-mesa-lts-utopic
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic
E: Unable to locate package libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386
E: Unable to locate package libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386
E: Unable to locate package libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic
So it seems that I need steps to downgrade the latest Ubuntu 24.10 X-Server taking in consideration what is currently posted on the X-Server site as well as to know what driver is compatible with this to get the HDMI functionality back.
Before login, HDMI shows the splash screen correctly, so I know that this is a driver problem. I still do not have steps to solve it however.
