how is support for newer ati radeon?

adamk75 · 12-01-2009, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gustaveiras

so basically what you all are telling me is that I shouldn't have too much trouble with an ATi HD 3200 or above, right?

On Slackware 13.0, it would definitely not be a problem with the fglrx drivers following the steps I gave above. I've used an HD3450 in just such a setup. *However* I can't speak definitively on Slackware-current. As long as -current isn't using X server 1.7.* or one of the 2.6.32-rc kernels (even 2.6.31 would be fine, I believe) it *should* be fine.

Adam

forum1793 · 12-01-2009, 08:51 PM

There's also a minor (to others) issue with sound over hdmi. This works over hd3200 integrated with radeonhd but not with radeon (xf...ati). AMD guys have patches for the radeon driver under IP review but not released yet. There are some patches from mailing lists for kms but it is not in the git code yet. Maybe it won't be too long yet. But it does work with Catalyst already.

gtludwig · 12-02-2009, 02:39 PM

hi guys,

Partly on the feedback I got here, I have finally decided on a laptop. It has an ATi Redeon HD 3450 video adapter. I'll have to compile the kernel to remove stuff I don't use and to build in stuff I'll need. All in all, I hope I don't suffer too much because of ATi... =)

gtludwig · 12-21-2009, 12:37 PM

Hi all,

Even though my search for a laptop lingers on (the one I was about to get was a bad deal), I got a new HP desktop at work that has an ATi 3100 graphics card and I am very happy I managed to get the ATi proprietary drivers working out of the shelf! I'm using slackware64-current here.

Kernel is stock and have only configured xorg.conf after the smooth installation of ATi latest driver. I hope that with more powerful ATi cards I won't have issues as well.

later all!
gtludwig

gtludwig · 02-23-2010, 07:18 AM

Hi all,

I came back to this thread and hope I can get some help!

I like to use -current. And it was running OK before kernel got up to the 2.6.30+ series, then fglrx just got broken!

I googled around and found out it (fglrx) isn't (or wasn't) compatible with kernel-2.6.30+ so I kept kernel packages from -13.0 and everything else from -current.

It works, but I'd like to go -current all the way.

Is there a patch somewhere I can I apply to kernel so I can build ATi's proprietary drivers?

Thanks in advance,
gtludwig

adamk75 · 02-23-2010, 08:02 AM

fglrx 10.2 supposedly works with kernel 2.6.32, but I've not tested that myself. It still does not work with X server 1.7.* but I don't know what version -current is up to.

Adam

gtludwig · 02-23-2010, 08:25 AM

I'm upgrading kernel packages to 2.6.32-7 now and have downloaded the 10.1 fglrx drivers for my Radeon 3100 integrated card... let's hope it works!

adamk75 · 02-23-2010, 08:27 AM

10.2 is out. Not sure if 10.1 has 2.6.32.* support, but I heard 10.2 does.

Adam

gtludwig · 02-23-2010, 08:33 AM

hmm, I can't seem to find it via their drivers download helper...

err... got it via

$ wget -c https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run

gtludwig · 02-23-2010, 08:49 AM

all seems to work, but kde from -current...
it hanged up on splash screen...
on XFCE now.

SpelledJ · 02-23-2010, 12:44 PM

I had the same experience last week. I'm running slackware64-current and installed the 10.2 ATI fglrx driver. KDE shows the hard drive icon, then the next three start fading in but it just hangs there. Switching with ctl-alt-F1 shows that it can't load the Plasma desktop. I've also switched to XFCE for now, and may stay that way. I've been really impressed with the latest XFCE. No issues with OpenGL screensavers so far, but that's been the only 3D apps I've tested. I plan to try Eric's unofficial KDE 4.4.0 packages to see if that solves the problem on startup.

gtludwig · 02-23-2010, 03:58 PM

SpelledJ,

actually I decided to give fluxbox a try and it is VERY fast too!

let me know when you try Eric's unnoficial KDE packages whether they solve the hangup problem or not!

cheers,
gtludwig

ack_iix · 02-24-2010, 01:00 AM

Regarding support for newer Radeon card, recently I just bought a Radeon HD 5750 card and it will not work with the radeonhd open source driver, so ATi binary driver is my only choice. KDE 4 compositing and 3D acceleration works fine, but resizing windows when compositing turned on is extremely slow.

gtludwig · 02-24-2010, 08:23 AM

KDE 4.4 runs with the "radeon" driver and stock -current kernel.

The fglrx 10.2 drivers install OK with the same kernel, but KDE 4.4 hangs up at bootsplash.

The output from # lspci is:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 9602
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 3100 Graphics
3f:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
root@cpc-5564:~#

SpelledJ · 02-24-2010, 09:53 PM

I set up KDE 4.4 this evening, and I can confirm that it also hangs on startup with the 10.2 fglrx driver. It hangs in the exact manner I described earlier for 4.3.

I also tried using compositing in Xfce with fglrx, but I'm not sure that I got it turned on. I added

Code:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

to my xorg.conf, and played with the transparency options in xfwm4rc, but nothing appears to be happening.

For now I'm using the radeon driver to test out KDE 4.4. Not being able to use 3D with it will probably make me stay with Xfce. I'm also downloading the unsupported KDE 3.5 packages to see if that works better with the fglrx driver.