Hey guys,
After I spent 3 days trying to make Radeon Xpress 200M working in Wheezy I need help. Notebook is
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.Product Name: X51RL
lspci says that video is
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
First I tried with Jessie but I found that there is no fglrx-legacy-driver probably because xorg is newer than 1.13 so I decided to go for Wheezy.
But even with fglrx-legacy-driver aticonfig says that there are no supported devices. I follow Debian documentation here
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#wheezy-legacy . aptitude installs and configure everything without an issue but looks like even this driver does not support this card no matter that in all places is written that mobility cards should be supported by it.
Ati site mentioned in the fglrx manpage to get list of supported devices now just redirects to downloads but for this thing it gives me only to download drivers for windows.
Radeon driver works both in Jessie and Wheezy but only with notebook monitor if I attach the TV (full HD one) it crashes. Reason is that there is limitation in the driver of maximum supported resolution but I didn't find a workaround for this . Using the notebook with the TV is the main purpose for it so radeon driver is not an option. Even only on laptop monitor its performance is bad and some videos are laggy.
Years ago I've installed Lenny or Squeeze on this notebook and I think that proprietary ati driver was working but since it was many years ago I'm not really sure is everything was fine or I just miss the "good old days" without pulseaudio, network-manager, systemd and such things ... Also both are not supported anymore which will be an issue to have a recent browser and this is also required.
I'll be thankful for any ideas and suggestions. I'm also open to install ubuntu or something else that has old enough fglrx-legacy-driver but is still supported (like LTS or so).
