Problem with Legacy FGLRX driver.

Hi everyone,

I'm running Debian Wheezy (32bit) on my laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 4200 series GPU. This card is supported by the ATI Proprietary 13.1 legacy driver. I followed the instructions for installing it from this Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprieta...st_Legacy_13.1

I then created the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf file described later in the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Configuration) and rebooted. Unfortunately I was greeted with a plain black screen, no login manager to be seen.

So then I tried it all over again, and this time I ran "aticonfig --initial" like AMD recommends. It generated a new xorg.conf file. (I also ran "update-initramfs -u -t" like someone else suggested) I rebooted and got the same black screen.

Any idea on how to get this driver working?

Hi,

I'm not familiar with this particular setup, but when you have problems with X you should always check the log file. For example /var/log/Xorg.0.log

HTH,

Evo2.

Things to check/try

The 20-fglrx.conf that was created if it still exist may be causing problems.
Make sure radeon driver is blacklisted and not being loaded
nomodeset as a boot option possibly may help
noaccel as an option in the xorg.conf file

Have you installed firmware-linux package?
Were you able to get to Desktop before installing proprietary driver?

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859 Things to check/try The 20-fglrx.conf that was created if it still exist may be causing problems. Make sure radeon driver is blacklisted and not being loaded nomodeset as a boot option possibly may help noaccel as an option in the xorg.conf file

Well I've tried booting with and without the 20-fglrx.conf an neither has worked. The official wiki did say to have it.

How do I make sure it's blacklisted and not loaded?
I already tried nomodeset by adding "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset"" in /etc/default/grub.
And I just tried the noaccel option and still no luck.

Originally Posted by evo2 Hi, I'm not familiar with this particular setup, but when you have problems with X you should always check the log file. For example /var/log/Xorg.0.log HTH, Evo2.

I'm attaching both that file and my xorg.cof file.

Originally Posted by EDDY1 Have you installed firmware-linux package? Were you able to get to Desktop before installing proprietary driver?

I have both the firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree packages, but not the the firmmware-linux package. Should I install that now?

Yes, it worked fine before installing the driver. I can still boot into the desktop selecting the 486 option in grub (though graphics performance is actually not very good) which is how I'm posting now.

Hi,

did you read the log file? Seems you specified the wrong busid in your config file. You can check what busid you should be using with lspci. Eg

lspci | grep -i vga

Evo2.

Originally Posted by evo2 Hi, did you read the log file? Seems you specified the wrong busid in your config file. You can check what busid you should be using with lspci. Eg lspci | grep -i vga Evo2.

I briefly read the log file but I don't really know what to log for in it.

adam@ToshibaL655D:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]

My config file has "BusID "PCI:1:5:0"". Is that the same thing as "01.05.0" or not?

Hi,

hmm, that does seem to be the correct id. Not sure what the problem is. Just out of curiosity, does it work with the radeon driver?

Evo2.

Originally Posted by evo2 Hi, hmm, that does seem to be the correct id. Not sure what the problem is. Just out of curiosity, does it work with the radeon driver? Evo2.

Yes it works with the radeon driver. But I want the fglrx driver to enable sound over HDMI, hopefully increase game performance etc.

Sound over hdmi is done by creating a .asoundrc file & listing the device
post output of

aplay -l