Please help me, I am desperate and must return to Windows if I cannot resolve this problem. I have a fast 32bit system with an AGP graphics aperture set to 256. My graphics card is a Radeon X1950 and the monitor is a 30" Samsung Syncmaster 305T widescreen capable of resolution 1920x1200 and higher. I cannot load any version of Ubuntu except 6.06, and it will only operate at minimum graphics of 1024x768 which is useless to me. Versions 6.10,7.04, and 7.1 all fail to load at start, and default to the command line with an error message that X cannot start. I have tried:
1. configuring the display as system administrator-no higher graphics options are offered in the menu
2. configuring by loading the fglrx(radeon config?)program, and restart. This hangs up and defaults to the command line as above.
3. reducing the graphics aperture to 128. This makes no difference.
4. In Ubuntu 7.4 and above, when attempting installation i get message that a better proprietary graphics driver is available from ATI. When I download and restart, same problem.
5. configuring from the command line by changing the screen resolution manually in the config file. restart, same problem.
6. Different versions. Tried the latest 3 versions of Fedora. Same problem.
In searching for help on-line, I encountered posts like "ATI graphics card driver is no good", "ATI configuration program doesn't work" and "Radeon graphics card is no good, buy an NVIDIA" This last is not a viable solution because an NVIDIA card with enough power to drive my monitor costs $300 while a Vista upgrade costs a third of that. I suspect that the problem is non-detection of AGP graphics,but I am not knowledgeable enough to do anything about it. Any help or suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
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