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Don't even think about trying to re-sell any of those under-played MP3s on your computer – that would likely be against the law. This is according to U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan, who ruled this week against Arizona-based company ReDigi, the "world's first" digital equivalent of a used record store, which allows people to buy and sell "used" music tracks and albums originally purchased through Apple's iTunes.
Sullivan's decision stems from a January 2012 lawsuit filed by Capitol Records, which asserted that ReDigi's business was based entirely on copyright infringement. ReDigi countered the claim, saying that its service abides by copyright law because it does not make any copies of the MP3 files it re-sells – instead, it simply transfers the original file to the ReDigi servers, and permanently erases it from the seller's hard drive. Because no copy is being made, ReDigi's argument goes, its business should be legal. Sullivan, of course, disagreed.
The ruling against ReDigi is seen as a win for Capitol Records and the music industry in general, and a loss for ReDigi (which may have to shut down entirely) and any other company that wants to make a business dealing with pre-owned digital goods – like Apple and Amazon. But the real losers here are the consumers. It's time we fight back the only (legal) way we can: Stop buying digital music.
Thwarted by copyright
The first issue here is something known as the "first sale" doctrine, which says you are allowed to "sell or otherwise dispose" of a copyright work that you've purchased without first obtaining permission from the copyright holder. "First sale" is what allows any secondary marketplace, like eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, or your local used book store, to operate legally.
When you pay for something, you should own it. You should be able to resell it, delete it, or play it on whatever device you wish. At least, that's the theory.
The bigger issue at hand is the DMCA itself, which even the U.S. Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante believes is outdated and confusing. It is the DMCA that sits behind most of the copyright issues we have in the U.S. It's the law that killed Megaupload, and the one that makes it a federal crime to unlock your new smartphone. According to Pallante, Congress would do well to revamp U.S. copyright law to clear up the issue of "first sale" as it applies to digital goods.
Here's how Pallante explained the issue during a recent lecture at Columbia Law School:
"On the one hand, Congress may believe that in a digital marketplace, the copyright owner should control all copies of his work, particularly because digital copies are perfect copies (not dog-eared copies of lesser value) or because in online commerce the migration from the sale of copies to the proffering of licenses has negated the issue. On the other hand, Congress may find that the general principle of first sale has ongoing merit in the digital age and can be adequately policed through technology . . . Or more simply, congress may not want a copyright law where everything is licensed and nothing is owned."
Let me repeat that last bit: "everything is licensed and nothing is owned." This line perfectly explains the nut of the problem; when it comes to digital goods, we don't actually "own" anything. That album you just purchased off of iTunes isn't really yours – you've simply paid for a license to play the songs in the privacy of your home or car. The same rules apply to "your" ebooks, downloaded video games, apps, and any other software-based product.
Look at it this way
From copyright owners' perspective, this setup is completely understandable. While a physical book and an ebook might have the same content, it is virtually impossible for your average Web user to provide an infinite number of copies of the physical book to anyone who wishes to have it. The "licensed not owned" technicality is there to stave off piracy. Were that setup to disappear, say experts, it could "wreak havoc" on content publishers.
For consumers, licensing-only make much less sense. When you pay for something, you should own it. You should be able to resell it, delete it, or play it on whatever device you wish. At least, that's the theory. Unfortunately for us consumers, it's no longer the reality.
So, what are we to do? The first step is to contact your representatives in Congress and tell them to firmly establish the re-selling of digital goods as a legal practice. (Not a very satisfying option, I know.) As we wait for Congress to take action on this issue – it will be a very long wait – the only real way to fight back against the current system is to go analog-only. Only buy used books, used CDs or vinyl – not because you want to be a hipster, but because it's the only legal way to subvert a system that is designed specifically to make your life more difficult.
What other choice do we have?
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Michelle Teheux: Of human beings, corporations and robots
Let's have a conversation about humans and corporations. Later we'll move onto robots, so hang on for the exciting science fiction portion of today's column.
Corporations aren't people. People breathe and bleed. They may fall in love, get married and have babies. They will eventually die. Corporations do none of these things.
What do corporations do? They make money, and they protect the owners of the business from personal liability. If you start a business and you don't want to risk being sued personally, you can incorporate, and that affords you some protection.
What you are basically saying when you incorporate is that the business is its own entity, not just an extension of you and any co-owners you might have.
A corporation is far different from a sole proprietorship, in which you can pretty accurately identify your business and yourself as supporting various beliefs and causes.
I once owned a sole proprietorship, a small business I started in my spare room as a young mother who didn't want to part from her babies but needed some income. It was fun, and as long as I didn't violate any laws I could make any business decision I wanted. I supported various causes, and so did my little business. I had no shareholders to answer to, and when I wanted to sacrifice potential profits for some other aim, such as helping out another young mom by giving her free products, I did so.
Most people (except five of the Supreme Court justices) already understand that corporations do not have any religious beliefs, or any other beliefs. They have no lofty aims.
The sole purpose of a corporation is to make money. No corporation I ever heard of was founded for any other purpose. When people want to establish an entity dedicated to doing good and righting wrongs, they start a non-profit organization.
There are a few real, live, breathing people for whom doing good and righting wrongs is their main goal, and we call them saints.
There are a few real, live, breathing people for whom making money is their main goal, and we call them sociopaths.
Actual human beings have probably a thousand different aims in life. They want to make money, but they also want to do some good in the world. They want to have fun. They want to take care of their loved ones. They might also have an ongoing feud with their neighbors, drink too much, and have a tendency to speed.
We humans are a mix of selfless and selfish, of good and of bad. We have deeply held beliefs, some of them lofty ideals like freedom that make us better and sometimes dark beliefs like racism that diminish us. That's what human beings are — a sloppy mess — but most of us have more positives than negatives.
If we think the science fiction world has it right, we'll someday be surrounded by robots who appear human but who are programmed to be a certain way. They won't have free will of their own, but they'll be capable of making life for the real humans better or worse, depending on whether they've been programmed to help care for our elderly or to shoot those we've deemed enemies.
But most of us don't believe robots will ever have free will. They'll always act in accordance with how human beings have designed and programmed them to act. Nor will they have emotions or feelings or beliefs. Will you, 100 years from now, be able to claim your robot is Catholic or Jewish or Muslim because you are? The idea seems ridiculous, but perhaps is not so far-fetched.
At least these future robots may look like human beings, perhaps so much that it will be difficult to distinguish them from the real thing.
Corporations, despite the literal meaning of the word, do not have bodies, yet some people still cannot understand that they are not real people.
It is people, not corporations, who matter in this world.
That's a belief — a very simple human belief — we need to uphold at all times.
Follow Michelle Teheux at Twitter.com/michelleteheux. The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of the newspaper.


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The X window system has served numerous Linux- and Unix-based operating systems well over its nearly three decades of life. But Canonical is ready to move on from X, saying a new display server is necessary to power the Unity user interface in Ubuntu as the OS expands from desktops to tablets and phones.
Canonical yesterday unveiled "Mir," which it describes as "a system-level component targeted as a replacement for the X window server system to unlock next-generation user experiences for devices ranging from Linux desktop to mobile devices powered by Ubuntu."
This isn't the first time Canonical has tried to move beyond X. In November 2010, founder Mark Shuttleworth floated plans to replace X with the Wayland display system created in 2008 by a developer who worked for Red Hat.
Ars writer Ryan Paul noted at the time that X, a display server that is responsible for showing graphics and mediating user input, "is included in all mainstream desktop Linux distributions. The problem with this venerable component of the Linux technology stack is that it was created in the '80s and hasn't been able to shed the superfluous accoutrements of yesteryear computing."
Now, Canonical has decided that neither X nor Wayland will meet its needs in creating one version of Unity that can scale from phones to tablets, desktops, and even TVs. Thus, Canonical is building its own replacement.
Canonical's Oliver Ries, head of engineering product strategy, explained the company's thinking in a blog post:
Today Unity (the rendering part of it) runs as a plugin in Compiz which sits on top of X and is a recurring source of frustration on the developer-, design- and finally also on the user side as a lot of our ideas (handling a multi-monitor setup in 12.04 or our plans for menu bars come to mind) require quite some intrusive changes to the underlying system. Regardless of how carefully crafted the solution, it is bending a stack to something that it wasn't necessarily designed for. Bend over backwards too much and you will fall on your back, bugging users with nasty bugs, regressions, unexpected behavior and plenty more that drives the frustration level up.
While evaluating our options, looking at extending the current stack to our needs, using the Wayland protocol (or any of its implementations) and comparing that with our designs & ideas we concluded that neither approach would allow us to do what we want in the quality that we would like to see for Ubuntu & Unity (at cost and in time).
Plus, there is the rather sizable challenge of pulling Wayland/X onto a mobile device, working with SoCs on driver support, tuning this stack for power consumption and performance and dealing with other issues of a stack that hasn't been designed for a convergence setup as we envision it. A lot of distraction from the actual goal, to provide an outstanding experience across all the supported devices – from consumer electronics to desktop computing devices to enterprise devices.
The chosen approach was to develop Mir, our own Display Server which is engineered driven by the designs and requirements that our larger vision dictates – no compromises, no crude hacks, fully testable & tested, performance in mind, support for legacy X applications, developed by Ubuntu for Ubuntu.
Canonical also announced that it is moving Unity away from Nux, an OpenGL-based widget toolkit and canvas for creating user interfaces. Nux will be replaced by Qt/QML.
"Driven by Ubuntu Touch we are starting to move Unity over to a Qt/QML based implementation, embracing Qt as a community backed technology for our offerings," Ries wrote. "We are looking at tackling the transition from the Nux based implementation to a Qt/QML based implementation component by component and are striving to do that in a transparent way for the user. This topic is also up for discussion at UDS and we are providing a spec at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec."
As for Mir, the new display server is projected to be "completely integrated with the rest of the system to support an Ubuntu Phone product" by October of this year. By April 2014, the goal is to have "complete convergence across the form factors," namely phones, tablets, desktops, and Ubuntu TV.
Canonical demonstrated Mir running as part of Unity on a Nexus 7 tablet and an Ubuntu desktop, as seen today in videos posted by OMGUbuntu. In the desktop demonstration, a voiceover says, "As you can see, it's not actually very interesting because it's exactly the same as regular Unity at the current state in time. It all just works."


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Charitable events for Feb. 24, 2013
Thursday: The King of the Wing competition benefiting ARC Marion will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at ARC Marion, 2800 SE Maricamp Road, Ocala. $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Ages 6-12 are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. (351-2479)
Saturday: The Marion County Kidney Foundation's Kicking Kidney Disease 5K Run/Walk starts at 8 a.m., with a Kids Fun Run at 9:15 a.m. at Cross Florida Greenway Baseline Road Trailhead, 4225 SE 58th Ave., Ocala. Pre-registration is $20 for adults, $10 for ages 18 and younger. Fun run is free for ages 10 and younger. $25 day of race and $10 for ages 18 and younger. (www.marioncountykidneyfoundation.org.)
Saturday: Ribs for Kids, Mojo Grill and Brooklyns Pizza rib sale to benefit four kids battling cancer runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Mojo Grill, 506 S. Pine Ave., Ocala. Goal is to raise $40,000. (369-6656)
Saturday: Army of Hope Breakfast to Benefit Military Families will be held 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ocala Elks Lodge, 702 NE 25th Ave., Ocala. Army of Hope provides assistance to the Florida families of deceased, disabled and deployed members of the military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. This program also funds summer camp at the Florida Elks Youth Camp in Umatilla for children who have deceased, disabled or deployed military family members. Breakfast cost is $8 for adults and children younger than 10 are $5. (732-7091)
Saturday: VFW 7193 scramble golf tournament begins at 8:30 a.m. at Pine Oaks Golf Course, 201 NW 21st St., Ocala. Entry fee is $60. Deadline to register is Monday. (281-2685 or 620-0476)
March 9: Ocala's Got Talent show starts at 7 p.m. at Ocala Entertainment Complex, 127 SW 17th Ave., Ocala. $8-$15. Proceeds benefit Project Hope. Tickets available at OEC, Pasteur's Ports and Project Hope. (433-2232, 282-9191, or facebook.com/ocalatalent)
March 9: Hospice of Marion County's annual calendar dinner runs 6 to 9 p.m. at Hilton Ocala, 3600 SW 36th Ave., Ocala. Proceeds go to the children and grandchildren of employees who are accepted to receive scholarships. Tickets are $30; includes dinner, entertainment, photos and a chance at auctions. (873-7456, 854-5275 or 873-7400)
March 9: Uncle Homer's Memorial Bass Tournament benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Marion County begins at daylight on the Rainbow River, Dunnellon. $100 per boat. (425-0277 or email@example.com)
March 9: Sylvia Zerbini, the equestrian performing artist, performs at 6 p.m. at BG Farms, 11800 S. County Road 475, Ocala. $150. Proceeds benefits Florida Horse Park. (307-6699 or flhorsepark.com)
March 9: Kmart golf outing benefiting March of Dimes will be held at 8 a.m. at Stone Creek Golf Club, 9676 SW 62nd Loop, Ocala. $60 per person. (854-1272)
March 12: A Charity Pro-Am event kicks off the Ocala Open at Candler Hills Golf Club, 8137 SW 90th Terrace Road, Ocala. Proceeds from the event benefit Hospice of Marion County and Interfaith Emergency Services. (861-9712)
March 16: United Way of Marion County's high school youth program is hosting a St. Patrick's Day 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. at Ocala City Hall, 110 SE Watula Ave., Ocala. $20 before March 11 and $25 after. (732-9696 or www.uwmc.org)
March 16: Marion County Tax Collector George Albright will host the third annual car show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Tax Collector's parking lot, 503 SE 25th Ave., Ocala. Proceeds support Marion County charities. The event is open to all vehicles. Pre-registration is $15 by Friday or $20 the day of the show. (368-8218 or email@example.com)
March 16: The North Marion High School Quarterback Club will hold its annual Cow Patty Golf Tournament beginning at 11 a.m. at the Teuton-Pauley Farm in Anthony. The cost is $40 per person. Proceeds will help fund the North Marion Football Program. Registration deadline is Friday. (671-6010 or email@example.com)
March 16: GFWC Greater Ocala Woman's Club Fashion Show and luncheon runs 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Druid Hills United Methodist Church, 1712 SE Lake Weir Road, Ocala. Fashion by Belk. Tickets are $20. Reservations required by March 8. Benefits multiple charities including Friends of the Library, Ocala Youth Symphony and the Ocala Civic Theatre. (237-9509 or 624-2175)
March 16: Veterans Helping Veterans golf tournament begins at 7:30 a.m. at Spruce Creek, 13601 Del Webb Blvd., Summerfield. $60 per person. (732-8000)
March 17: The sixth annual Amber Peck and John Parker Environmental Sciences Scholarship Memorial Golf Outing will begin at 12:30 p.m. at Ocala Golf Club, 3130 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. $50 per person. Entry deadline is March 10. (324-2077 or 598-1639)
March 17: Florida Thorobred Fillies Mardi Gras Fashion Show and luncheon runs from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn & Suites, 3600 SW 38th Ave., Ocala. $30. All proceeds go to local charities. (438-4044 or 812-0088)


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What is CaraReynolds.com all about you may be wondering? It is about me wanting to have a space for my photography that goes beyond Flickr, a place that not only showcases my photos, but my life as well. I think this site turned out amazing. It is as I say ALL the time, AWESOME!
So, sit back and enjoy the show… and remember, just like me, CaraReynolds.com will continually evolve, so come back sometime and see me again.
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Ubuntu Gutsy Installation Guide
For most users it won't be necessary to go into installation and configuration details of the driver. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) provides a notification saying that there are restricted drivers available. You just have to go there (Restricted Drivers Manager) and enable the "ATI accelerated graphics driver". Ubuntu will then install and configure the driver for you. If this does not provide the optimal solution you were looking for, please read ahead.
Method 1: Install the Driver the Ubuntu Way
This will install the driver that is currently in the repositories. It may be older than the current version from AMD.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx sudo depmod -a
The second line of the above may not be necessary. If apt says it cannot find the "linux-restricted-modules" package, try line 3. If that fails, check your sources.list (see top of page)
If the system complains about dependencies, use your preferred package manager to download python2.4 and, if necessary, its dependencies.
Method 2: Install the Catalyst Driver Manually
- This is just an alternative installation method for the section above. It might help if you still get 'DRI missing' errors.
Download page: Catalyst 15.12 -- File: radeon-crimson-15.12-15.302-151217a-297685e.zip. This package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit driver.
Change to the directory you downloaded the file. Make sure that you have the universe and multiverse repositories enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list before doing these steps.
There is a detailed manual with screenshots at Ubuntu Wiki.
By default, Ubuntu did not enable the Universe and Multiverse repositories, but now in Gutsy, both Universe and Multiverse are activated by default.
Install necessary tools:
|Terminal Command
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Uninstall previous fglrx: Using Synaptic, completely remove any packages containing "fglrx" in their name.
If using 64bit make sure to collect package "ia32-libs" before you continue!
Create .deb packages:
|Terminal Command
sudo sh radeon-crimson-15.12-15.302-151217a-297685e.zip --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy
note: if this step fails with a signal being caught, and you are running the script on an NFS-mounted directory, copy it to a local partition, and it will work. The same error may result from insufficient disk space.
As an alternative, you can just use
|Terminal Command
sudo sh ./radeon-crimson-15.12-15.302-151217a-297685e.zip --buildpkg Ubuntu --autopkg
which will download all the needed packages by itself and also automatically detects the Ubuntu version used.
If this step fails on amd64/x86_64 with a No such file or directory message about missing files in X11R6/lib, follow these instructions and come back here. Also check that your download path does not contain spaces.
Blacklist old fglrx module from linux-restricted-modules:
As Ubuntu Gutsy's linux-restricted-modules package includes the fglrx module from an old driver version (8.37.6), we have to blacklist this module to make sure the new kernel module which is needed by the new driver will be used instead.
Ubuntu/Gnome users type in:
gksu gedit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
Kubuntu/KDE users type in:
kdesu kate /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
Add "fglrx" to the line "DISABLED_MODULES"
|File: /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
Please note that after the modification above, the "Restricted Driver Manager" will signal "ATI accelerated graphics driver" not enabled (unticked). This is perfectly correct. At the end of the installation procedure it will signal in Status: "in use" (green light), but NOT enabled. It simply means that the fglrx module contained in the linux-restricted-modules package is not enabled, but another fglrx module (8.4) is in use.
You may also need to edit the file (if it exists):
gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-restricted
Put a # in front of the line "blacklist fglrx", if it is present. Otherwise, the kernel module will not load automatically, and you will not get 3D acceleration.
Remove any old fglrx debs from /usr/src/:
sudo rm /usr/src/fglrx-kernel*.deb
Install .deb packages:
sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.476-0*.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.476-0*.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.476-0*.deb
Additional 64-bit instructions
If you have a 64 bit install, the above dpkg command will likely complain that "Errors were encountered while processing: fglrx-amdcccle". This is because of a dependency of the amdccle package on 32 bit libraries. If you receive this error, issue the following command after the above dpkg command, which will force the installation of all of the 32 bit dependencies, and then the amdccle package:
sudo apt-get install -f
Catalyst 8.3 on 64-bit systems requires the --force-overwrite command in the above dpkg command:
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite xorg-driver-fglrx_8.476-0*.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.476-0*.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.476-0*.deb
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Configure the Driver
- NOTE THIS WILL ERASE SETTINGS IN /etc/X11/xorg.conf you should be sure there is a backup.
- Note Method 2 Users: Before you carry out this step you must reboot your machine. Or else the fglrx driver will not be in use on xorg.conf and using the aticonfig options will cause a memory dump and not intialise the Driver properly.
- Note: An alternative to the aticonfig --initial command is to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the string "ati" with "fglrx" in the "Device" section. This way you won't lose your old "Screen" and "Monitor" settings. Afterwards you can use aticonfig for setting overlay etc. Another alternative is aticonfig --initial --force if you encounter issues with the first command.
sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo aticonfig --overlay-type=Xv
- Note: Alternative in the overlay-type to "Xv" can be "opengl" or "disable" if the TV-out makes problems in videos.
Alternative: Configure the Driver, The Manual Way:
An alternative to the "sudo aticonfig" commands is to edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and change the "Device" section for the video card as shown below. This way you won't lose your old settings.
gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device" [...] # Driver "vesa" Driver "fglrx" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" [...] EndSection
TV - Out
The composite TV-Out is not working simultaneously with the VGA on my System. To use it I have turned the VGA off and only the TV on. Attention! This command turns off your Monitor!!
sudo aticonfig --enable-monitor=tv
To change back to VGA:
sudo aticonfig --enable-monitor=crt1
Some have had luck with both mirrored.
sudo aticonfig --force-monitor=crt1 sudo aticonfig --enable-monitor=crt1,tv
reboot after that and it should mirror the CRT1 onto the TV.
Finish the Installation
Now save any open document and reboot your system:
sudo shutdown -hr now
- Note: An alternative to rebooting is to restart the X Server by pressing your CTRL ALT BACKSPACE keys. You must remove any old kernel modules such as "drm" "radeon" or "fglrx" using the "rmmod" command. Example:
sudo rmmod fglrx
- Note: Another way to reboot:
sudo reboot
Post-Installation Checks and Tweaks
Run the following command to check its output to ensure the fglrx driver is installed properly:
$fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 OpenGL version string: 2.1.7415 Release
64bit Users only ( 32bit users can continue to the fglrxinfo test ), after rebooting you may have noticed that you cant open aticonfig, and the fglrxinfo test below may not show ati in the info from the test, to fix this in terminal do the following command
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
OpenGL vendor string should read ATI and not Mesa.
If it still says Mesa and not ATI, even after re-enabling the driver from the Restricted-manager: You can try the following:
$ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep EEif this command returns
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not workthen remove the kernel module and reinstall it.
$ sudo dkms remove -m fglrx -v 8.471 --all
- Remove all the packages provided by the
xserver-xorg-video-allmeta-package (search for it using Synaptic or Adept), then restart the machine. The X Server should now use the new fglrx driver by force (provided the driver is being used in xorg.conf).
- If you can't log in after this, you'll have to log in to a terminal in the login screen, and reinstall the
xserver-xorg-video-allpackage. Your problem is probably somewhere else. (taken from [1]).
- Remove all the packages provided by the
- Remove the package xserver-xgl.
- Explanation: If you installed this previously in order to make compiz work, it will not allow direct rendering on your display. You can check out if this is what it causing the problem by running
DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo | grep render
- If it returns an ATI renderer, it means that xgl is being displayed indirectly on the display 1. (Taken from [2])
- Warning: This might make your compiz stop working as it is configured to use XGl. A solution might be to run the Envy script in order to configure compiz.
Note: Here is the glxinfo of a good install (for those interested).
Enable laptop mode on battery power
Enabling laptop mode on battery power gives you much better battery life, however be aware that sometimes it causes odd hangs.
Switch ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE to true
|File: /etc/default/acpi-support
# Switch to laptop-mode on battery power - off by default as it causes odd # hangs on some machines ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true
Switch FGLRX_ACPI_SWITCH_POWERSTATES to true
|File: /etc/default/fglrx
# Uncomment the next line to enable powerstate switching on ACPI # events for lid open/close and AC adapter on/off FGLRX_ACPI_SWITCH_POWERSTATES=true
Additional configure with aticonfig tool
You can configure the driver even further with the aticonfig tool, more information can be found at Configuring.
For example:
- use powerplay option to switch power state for battery friendly or performance mode
- use dual head or one big desktop mode
- turn second monitor on/off on the fly
Specific Issues
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Suspend/Hibernation work with 7.12
With Gutsy release, there was a big problem using the ATI proprietary drivers. The Suspend/Hibernate function stopped working. The problem was due to the new SLUB allocator incorporated in 2.6.22 / 2.6.23 Kernel.
The problem has been solved in the AMD Catalyst 7.12 driver release. UPDATE: The problem has NOT been solved in the AMD Catalyst 7.12 driver release.
Suspend/hibernate is not working for FireGL 5250. For FireGL 5200, suspend works with the 7.12 fglrx kernel module loaded (which did not work before this release) , but does not work if X is running.
For Thinkpad T60 with ATI X1400, to get the laptop to wake up from suspend, I had to change the following in /etc/default/acpi-support:
Even with the above settings (like POST_VIDEO=false, etc.) my ASUS Z96J with an X1600 does not suspend.
This bug has been a serious issue for several months now. There is a lot of frustration over this, because Ubuntu/Canonical has not been helpful. They've said things like suggesting not using fglrx (thanks a lot, that really helps).
Current status on this bug can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/121653/
If you get /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so not found
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
It may be necessary to create the /usr/X11R6/lib directory first:
sudo mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib
If you get /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so not found
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules
Segmentation Fault with glxinfo/fglrxinfo
fglrxinfo or
glxinfo returns a Segmentation fault like this:
$ fglrxinfo display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.7170 Release) Segmentation fault
Set output of libGL to verbose with
$ export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
fglrxinfo or
glxinfo again
libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.44.3 fglrx (screen 0) libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied) libGL error: unable to load driver: fglrx_dri.so display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1.7170 Release) Segmentation fault
Don't know if its always fglrx_dri.so, but the fix is to add read permissions to the file.
Check if read permission is not there
ls -l /usr/lib/dri/ |grep fglrx_dri -rw-rw---- 1 root root 17462688 2008-01-13 17:42 fglrx_dri.so
Add read permission
$ sudo chmod +r /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
Check read permission
ls -l /usr/lib/dri/ |grep fglrx_dri -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 17462688 2008-01-13 17:42 fglrx_dri.so
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Monitor detection (1680x1050 Resolution Issue)--- SOLVED
As specified in the release notes, "Connecting a display device that supports 1680x1050 to a system running Linux may result in a maximum display resolution of 1280x1024 only being available". (from thread)
[It works with the latest driver]
Fglrx driver does not detect some monitors correctly, so you have to do it manually (google about your monitor spec with keyword: xorg.conf).
For example: Samsung 205BW 1680x1050 monitor needs manually set:
|File: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Monitor" Option "DPMS" Identifier "samsung-monitor" VendorName "Samsung" ModelName "SyncMaster 205BW" HorizSync 31.4 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.000 - 75.000 Modeline "1680x1050" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "samsung-screen" Device "samsung-device" Monitor "samsung-monitor" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection EndSection
This has made my day. I wish all positngs were this good.
Hang at logout
If you experience hangs when logging out (of X) try disabling atieventsd with this command:
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f atieventsd remove
Revert to Xorg driver
If (for any reason) the fglrx install fails, you can revert to the Xorg driver by executing
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and selecting the "ati" driver, or simply restoring the previous /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, if you made a backup.
You also need to remove the xorg-driver-fglrx or your manually installed drivers to get the 3D acceleration back, since it is provided by file /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 which belongs to libgl1-mesa package and which is moved to backup and replaced at the installation of xorg-driver-fglrx (or the manually built) package. In case the removal of the fglrx drivers fails to restore the file from libgl1-mesa, you have to reinstall the package by running:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx