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["W. Prins" <wprins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I've finally gotten back to this issue, having upgraded/reinstalled
the box in question.  What I tried:

1.) Installed the latest/daily version of Karmic.  Noticed the open
source ATI driver worked well, including acceleration.  Noticed the
"hardware drivers" applet didn't offer any proprietary drivers.
Proceeded to add the PPA above to the system, apt-get update, apt-get
upgrade, which pulled in a bunch of stuff, still no offer of a driver,
so I ended up doing "apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx".  Rebooted,
ended up with an unusable system:  System attempts to start X but
displays graphical corruption, and finally locks hard.

2.) Installed Release version of Jaunty + all updates.  Again noticed
the open source ATI driver worked well, including acceleration.  Again
noticed the "hardware drivers" applet didn't offer any proprietary
drivers.  Decided to skip the PPA and just install the official driver:
"apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx".  Rebooted, again ended up with an
unusable system:  System attempts to start X but displays graphical
corruption, and finally locks hard.  Had to fix it by rebooting into
recovery and manually removing xorg-driver-fglrx.

Notes:
I've noticed that ATI has moved this video card to Legacy support, which means that the latest version of the Catalyst drivers apparently does not contain support for the ATI 9800XT anymore, and the last version they provide will only receive essential fixes etc.  Even so, I had a lot of trouble trying to install this last/latest version posted on ATI's site for the card into Windows -- basically it wouldn't install, and I eventually ended up installing an older version of the driver.

Anyway, I mention this because it may be possible that the latest fglrx
may be using the latest catalyst driver for Linux, which presumably
means that the card is likely not supported anymore (I've not checked
the readme's or anything but I'd be surprised if this isn't the case,
given the state of affairs in Windows land...)

Also, I notice that the open source driver seems to be working rather
well now, so it may be an idea to close this bug as "wont fix".

Nevertheless, thanks for the effort to try and help resolve this anyway,
it is appreciated.

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Xorg crashed with " Failed to allocate CMM buffer (size=16384, alignment=4096)!"  in AddScreen() as a result of a call to atiddxLoadLogo() in fglrx
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286140
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