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Damnit, I know the R300 DRI driver is alpha code and all, but it doesn’t work on my card at all! I’ve been slowly working with the dri-devel mailing list on how to get it working, but no one has been able to figure out whats wrong.

• Windows works fine.
• The ATI binary driver, fglrx, works fine.
• Removing Load "DRI" from Xorg.conf and then starting Xorg with R300 DRI works fine.
• Xorg.0.log doesn’t give me any hints as to whats wrong.
• dmesg gives me no hints as to whats wrong.
• Running DRI, libDRM, and the DRM kernel modules from CVS doesn’t fix it.
• It isn’t the agpart driver, because fglrx uses the agpart driver instead of it’s internal one due to how Ubuntu Dapper works
• Fast write is not on.
• AGP speed is set to default, which seems to be 4x.
• I use GDM, and the Ubuntu GDM drum sound doesn’t play.
• It does, however, play if I manually go to a text console, but trying to go back to X leaves me with a scrambled screen with a working mouse curosr, and input doesn’t work; sysreq, however, does.
• Starting X by itself without GDM doesn’t fix it.

Anyone out there have an idea of how this can be fixed?

Update: In October of 2005, I bought this card, under the impression that ATI would support it under Linux, and they have failed. They did not give any help to the DRI R300 project, nor did they improve their fglrx drivers. On October 11th of 2006, I have replaced this card with a Geforce 6800XT.

However, I wish the best of luck to the DRI team. Not everyone is willing to shell out $120 to get rid of problematic drivers.