ATI Display Messed UP - Kernel 2.6.35.8

[Eatme]

After upgrading & updating the distro and kernel. My display is now sluggish and compiz fusion is not working anymore.

I was afraid of upgrading, because its been a while since i setup up everything to how I like it.

I had pyrit to use my grafix card when pentesting, and now i get error when doing:
#~: pyrit benchmark
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 ()
Minor opcode of failed request: 19
Serial number of failed request: 8
Current serial number in output stream: 8

[laptopz]

Looks like the driver is misinstalled, most probably because old driver kernel modules are present from before the upgrade. Did you try removing and installing it back again?

[Eatme]

hey, thanks for replying...

yes, i installed and reinstalled. This is how i removed it.

#:cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx
#:sudo sh ./fglrx-uninstall.sh
rebooted.

Now when i restart, and i do "#: pyrit list_cores" i get the correct response.

But when re-install the drivers:
#:./ati-driver-installer-10-12-x86.x86_64.run
continue, agree, continue. Then restart, problem occurs again.

[laptopz]

When you uninstall the one in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx do

sudo apt-get purge xorg-driver-fglrx

and check again for any old stuff in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx

You may find this page very usefull when installing back.

P.S. Are you on 64? (32-Bit packages must be installed for 64-Bit Linux drivers to install or work).

[Eatme]

I forget if i installed BT4 as 64 or 32.

ok I did the following after reading your post and this what I got after following the steps on that site:

sudo dpkg -i xorg-driver-fglrx_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-kernel-source_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb fglrx-amdcccle_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 287933 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.771-0ubuntu1 (using xorg-driver-fglrx_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
 does not exist in /etc/ati.  This suggests that the ATI driver
 is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
 or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
 one this script was designed for.  Both files listed above are
 required for determining where installed files are located.
 To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
 uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
 environment variable and re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).

dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace fglrx-kernel-source 2:8.771-0ubuntu1 (using fglrx-kernel-source_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Unpacking replacement fglrx-kernel-source ...
Preparing to replace fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.771-0ubuntu1 (using fglrx-amdcccle_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fglrx-amdcccle ...
Setting up fglrx-kernel-source (2:8.771-0ubuntu1) ...
Loading new fglrx-8.771 DKMS files...
Building initial module for 2.6.35.8, architecture -a i686

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.35.8 (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.771/build/ for more information.
Done.

Error! Could not locate fglrx.ko for module fglrx in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.35.8 (i686) first.

Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:8.771-0ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xorg-driver-fglrx_8.771-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

[stutte]

i get the same error . hd 5770
please help