WHITE SCREEN of DEATH

[redsquash]

I have been having trouble getting my ATI sapphire, radeon 9600 graphics card to work.

My screen ripples when i move it and response is delayed is few seconds and very slow

I have been using Mint 5 for several days and cant get my ATI drivers to install properly.

I an a beginner of a few active days.
ENVYNG doesnt help
sudo displayconfig-gtk helps some what ...... i have sound and video , but rippling
i have re- installed fglrx

My last problem was using hardware drivers to install ATI. This caused a white screen, only to appear

I understand about 5% of what I just wrote above !
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After logging in I have a white screen and a mouse arrow. That's it

Now what.
I don't want to reinstall MINT 5 again as I have done this many times in the last week

[67GTA]

I think most of your problems stem from the ATI card. They have never been much on Linux drivers. They focus most of their attention on Microsoft end users. I gave up on them a long time ago. If you have the cash, buy a Nvidia card.

[redsquash]

I think most of your problems stem from the ATI card. They have never been much on Linux drivers. They focus most of their attention on Microsoft end users. I gave up on them a long time ago. If you have the cash, buy a Nvidia card.

I think you might be right . I will try the sugested fix of an earlier post later tonight.

[luxorvan]

[quote="redsquash"]I have been having trouble getting my ATI sapphire, radeon 9600 graphics card to work.

My screen ripples when i move it and response is delayed is few seconds and very slow

I have been using Mint 5 for several days and cant get my ATI drivers to install properly.

Ok I will try and explain it as easy as possible. You will however have to reinstall linuxmint one more time I will list the terminal commands to complete this also. After installing linux mint and logging in go to a terminal window and update ( sudo apt-get update ) then you want to install the xserver-xgl ( sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl ) after that when you use envy select to "manually install the ati driver and select 8.40". I had the very same problem with my sony vaio and ati radeon 9550 and it was the 8.42 driver that is the problem. When you install ati driver with envy it selects the newest one but you want to select the 8.40 driver which is listed under the manually install ati driver. I hope this helps you or even others!
1. open terminal
2. update ( sudo apt-get update )
3. install xserver-xgl ( sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl )
4. Manually install the 8.40 driver with envy
5. Restart and enable the compiz

[redsquash]

Must I reinstal?

Cant I just delete the particular

ati drivers.

Enable the compriz.
.....What does that mean? Is compriz a LINUX MINT 5 program? Where do I get it?







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I have been having trouble getting my ATI sapphire, radeon 9600 graphics card to work.

My screen ripples when i move it and response is delayed is few seconds and very slow

I have been using Mint 5 for several days and cant get my ATI drivers to install properly.

Ok I will try and explain it as easy as possible. You will however have to reinstall linuxmint one more time I will list the terminal commands to complete this also. After installing linux mint and logging in go to a terminal window and update ( sudo apt-get update ) then you want to install the xserver-xgl ( sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl ) after that when you use envy select to "manually install the ati driver and select 8.40". I had the very same problem with my sony vaio and ati radeon 9550 and it was the 8.42 driver that is the problem. When you install ati driver with envy it selects the newest one but you want to select the 8.40 driver which is listed under the manually install ati driver. I hope this helps you or even others!
1. open terminal
2. update ( sudo apt-get update )
3. install xserver-xgl ( sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl )
4. Manually install the 8.40 driver with envy
5. Restart and enable the compiz

[redsquash]

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[mike^]

Check this link out. May help.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... =howto+ati