old fglrx drivers repository for radeon 9000

fuksas2014 · 09-05-2014, 02:55 PM

Hi all,
I'm trying to install a radeon 9000 card on an old pc with red hat 7.3 and kernel 2.4.18-3.
I upgrade to xfree86 4.4.0 and use linux radeon drivers but i've poor performances. Direct rendering is enabled but glxgears is 350fps.
i'd like try fglrx old drivers but on amd internet site i can't find old version.
Is there a repository or an ftp site where i can find it??
Thanks

EDDY1 · 09-05-2014, 05:06 PM

I think the legacy dropped support for the 9000.

NGIB · 09-05-2014, 05:15 PM

Here's the site. Enter the info and you can DL the old drivers. This will only work if you use an old kernel and x.org.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

This solution would not work for the other fella wanting Radeon 9000 proprietary drivers because he wanted to use a current distro...

fuksas2014 · 09-07-2014, 02:29 AM

Thanks to all
I already tried driver downloaded from amd official repository but they doesn't works.
I'm looking for a repository to download old version of that drivers (before fglrx version 8.28)
Thanks

ReaperX7 · 09-07-2014, 04:27 AM

350fps isn't too bad.

The DRI driver is probably your best bet for support of that card, and you may want to try using DRIConf to tweak the driver settings a bit. The fglrx drivers back then weren't very stable especially with R200 based graphics chips.

business_kid · 09-08-2014, 01:35 PM

I have a Radeon RS690 (r3xxx), which afaik is 5 years newer than yours (2007). All support was dropped for that by 2009, and they were pushed to the OSS driver, which AMD/Radeon contribute code to. For the old stuff OSS was better, as it has implemented more.
The radeon 9000 now is not good enough to be given away in breakfast cereal boxes, so 350 fps in glxgears is good for the age of it. I don't think I had much better 5 years later.

I have the ati installer-9.3 64 bit in a backup if that's any use.