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[Christian Funder Sommerlund <zero3@xxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg-driver-fglrx

OS: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) ~ Beta 1 (64-bit)

After messing around with ATI graphics drivers all day, I'm now stuck in
this situation:

Installing fglrx via the restricted hardware manager leaves my system
unbootable. The Xorg.0.log reveals the following:

(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.66.10
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.66.1                               
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep  3 2009 21:35:39
(EE) Unable to initialize PCS database
(EE)   Missing PCS defaults file /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default
(EE) No devices detected.

Manually removing fglrx packages via the recovery console leaves the
system even more unbootable:

(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrx
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Manually removing xorg.conf makes the system bootable again (probably
using the ati driver).

I have the following files on my system that might be relevant:
/etc/ati/amdpcsdb
/etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default.dpkg-bak

ubuntu-bug has attached all kinds of stuff for me. Let me know if you
need anything else.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct  1 23:08:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC
Package: xorg-driver-fglrx (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=/dev/mapper/LVM1-Root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=da_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu6
 libdrm2 2.4.13-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.34
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 3622
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 98.35
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.34:bd05/14/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv5NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn3622:rvr98.35:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-11-generic

** Affects: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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fglrx fails at startup because of missing  amdpcsdb.default + removal leaves bad settings in Xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440233
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