Xorg issues after installing ATI drivers?

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Hey!
My Sony Vaio NW11S is playing up on me again.
I have upgraded it to Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty) I have tried installing ATI drivers on it and its not working. I just get a bunch of errors of Xorg errors.
Cant load fireGL DRM library
fglrx: No matching device section for instance found.
Failed to load module "fglrxdrm"
Failed to load DRM library
PreInit failed
SetVBEMode failed
Screens found but none have a usable configuration
Fatal server error:
No screens found.
I have tried the drivers from the drivers menu in Kubuntu. I have tried the ones from ATI, get the same damn result.
It worked fine with 10.10. I wish It would work like it did back then.
Its an ATI Mobility Radeon 4570.

I also have Xorg issues

1. What the H is Xorg?

2. Why is it constantly screwing up my Firefox browser? As my sessions progress the browser starts to run when I am not doing anything except reading an article on the screen. Eventually it gets to where it starts running like a maniac, and then the browser hangs. I have to go into my System Monitor App to End Process of my browser. Then I have to restart it if I want to go back online. This is annoying, and time consuming.

3. Why is it constantly hogging my PC resources? My System Monitor App says that Xorg uses a lot of my resources. I tried reducing priority, but it keeps resetting back to it's default level, so that doesn't work.

I am not a computer geek, so I don't know what to do to fix this, or if it is safe to delete Xorg. I also don't know any computer languages, and thus, am not qualified to mess with any computer coding. I have an older version of Linux Ubuntu. Because I only have dial-up on my old PC upgrading is not feasable right now. I did upgrade from an even older version of Ubuntu to this one last summer, but it took a couple of days, with my dial-up connection and overheated my monitor and hard drive. The monitor died not long after that. I do have a new refurb PC loaded with Win 7 waiting in the wings, but I don't want any service people coming over to hook me up to DSL yet because my place is a mess. Because of chronic health problems I haven't had the energy, or the time to clean the place up, but I am working on it a little at a time. A very bad cold late this past summer had me awake 24/7 for three weeks, which only added to my energy drain, and I am still trying to recover from that. Once I have cleaned the part of my home the service person will need to be in to hook me up I will get DSL. Unfortunately, I can't put my dial-up modem card in the new PC, as the tower is narrower than my old one, so my modem card is too wide to fit into it. In the mean time, bearing in mind that I have only a dial-up connection and an old version of Ubuntu, is there anything I can do to fix or kill Xorg?

I have been unhappy with Linux Ubuntu ever since a relative set me up with it. This OS is more for computer geeks, not people who just want to turn on the computer and do stuff, without having to know anything about what is under the hood. I will be glad to get back into Windows. However, their browser often has problems. I am also fed up with Firefox, and don't want to get Google's Chrome, as Google has been getting more intrusive into people's I-net usage. Is there a good browser other than IE, Firefox, and Google's Chrome? I have heard of Opera--is that a good one?

Did you install the metapackage from the repositories, or did you install packages individually? Installing the metapackage would take care of the problem.


Also to answer the other poster, Xorg is the Xwindows server, without it you have no GUI display, and instead have a strictly CLI interface.

Yep.
I have tried every damn thing possible. I went onto the Kubuntu Fourms and they said that the drivers for my GPU are unsupported by the kernel. Not good. I need GPU drivers if I use Linux. Trust my machines GPU not to be supported by it. What can I do? I cannot really use 10.10, its not very usable, but I will if I absolutely have to.
The Kubuntu Forums had also told me that I should install Xubuntu and install KDE on top. As Xubuntu supports older hardware. I go to install the drivers from "additional drivers" and it wont install. I have tried installing drivers from ATI them self and it just wont install:
Sorry, the installation of this driver failed.

Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

I know I could just use Windows, but I dont have a copy of Windows 7 right now. Even if I did, I just cant do what i can do under Linux with it. Windows is just not my thing. I have even tried hackintosh, and just like Linux, it hates my GPU.

Any chance you could post the log output?

This is kind of weird, granted that all info I can pull up for that GPU indicates that it should not be problematic under Ubuntu or its variants. That's not to say that some change in the latest kernel/modules is causing the problem and it's not been as extensively reported yet. I don't really know.

Ok, Il try to copy over the file later on.
Im disgusted to ask this (:lol:) but how do I find out what number is my ex USB HDD?
Thanks!
I have no idea what I would do without WP.

I talked to a friend of mine and he has had issues with ATI drivers using any Ubuntu variant other than Ubuntu 10.10. If you say it worked properly under Kubuntu 10.10, that seems to correlate well enough -- my friend doesn't like KDE and probably has not experimented with Kubuntu. After failing to get any kind of meaningful info from google about the problem, I'm a bit baffled. That output log might provide some new information to work with, though. Otherwise, it might be wise to move back to the last system that worked (Kubuntu 10.10). At least until the issues have been ironed out of the newer versions.

As for your ex-USB HDD, that depends on how your using the drive now -- is it internal? Can you identify it by its contents? If it's being used as an internal drive, the way I would do it is to explore the different drive mounts until I find the one with the proper contents / right size. There might be an easier way I'm unaware of, though.

I Il just go back with 10.10 for now. Maybe even 10.04 LTR.
I think I might wait until the next release. I shall put up the logs when I get round to it. Thanks

Any time.

Sorry I wasn't more straight-forward... haven't had enough coffee yet today.

What is X.org: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server

Upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Use FreeBSD ..

You could use /etc/X11/xorg.conf Device / BusID and Driver to force drivers. The last option is to add PCI IDs to source files. And the really really last option is to write a new driver.

Last edited by CosTransform on 19 Feb 2012, 1:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

FreeBSD or Gentoo.

Or, if feeling exceptionally masochistic, G/FBSD.