Slackware and ATI video support?
I'm posting an abridged version of this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rs-4175597701/ hardware forum question here because Slacksters might know the answer more readily.
I've install an ATI FirePro 2450 in my computer and it is not recognized at all. I had to connect a monitor to the onboard VGA to get a screen and in KDE > System Settings > Monitor and Display it only shows the one VGA. The card is being completely ignored. My motherboard is ASUSTeK, M4N68T-M-V2. I'm running Slackware64 14.2, KDE 4.14.21. Is there something I have to do or is this card simply not going to work? Do I need a special driver? more info ... I've read in https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ha...aphics_drivers Quote:
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1. Is it listed in lspci? If not, the hardware is certainly suspect.
2. Some cards need an external power supply cable. Does yours? 3 Does the kernel acknowledge it's existence? 4. Is it seated properly in a known good slot? |
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From your asking of these particular questions, I am led to believe you think it probably *should* recognize this card, if working, yes? If the card is good and kernel does not recognize it, what are my options? |
Ok, it seems the kernel at least recognizes the card, but the question is if it provides a driver for it. Can you provide the output of lspci -k | grep -iA3 amd to see if it is loading a driver?
Also, verify in your bios that your onboard graphics are disabled. I've seen computers not boot when onboard is still enabled (I would've thought it would auto-detect that, but maybe that's asking too much). |
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One problem I can see is that you have a nvidia & amd cards. You're stuck on OSS drivers for both, or things will never work. Both binary blobs overwrite Mesa libs.
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ls -l /usr/lib64/libGL* I wouldn't worry about not seeing the bios. It seems to find a way of looking after you. I won't promise what you'll see it on, but you'll see it. As a last resort, pull the cmos battery, unplug, & leave overnight. That will restore defaults. |
business_kid: Unfortunately, most of what you wrote is Greek to me. OSS drivers? Binary blobs? Here is my libGL.so info:
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# ls -l /usr/lib64/libGL.so* Motherboard is ASUS M4N68T-M-V2, BIOS is AMI 0702 (1/26/2011). |
Hello Mfoley,
I believe it should be in the bios. Something like Advanced>Chipset>InternalVideo>Primary Video Controller. |
I went to Advanced > Chipset > SouthBridge MCP68SE Chipset Configuration, and changed the 'Primary Graphics Adapter' priority from "IGP> PCI > PCIE" to "PCIE > PCI > IGP". I assume "IGP" means internal graphics processor. I would have thought this would do it, but no go, still going to the motherboard VGA. I even updated to the latest BIOS version.
Is it possibly the card? I can find another video card and try again. |
Sorry about that.
OSS = Open Source Software drivers - nouveau, xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-nvidia & standard Mesa. 'binary blobs' is a less than enthusiastic way of describing the various closed source drivers from intel, amd, & nvidia. Your libGL output indicates you have no closed source drivers installed as the symlinks are to Mesa libraries which the closed source drivers overwrite. So if you installed a closed source driver, it's installation failed. |
Hello Mfoley,
Hmm... Did you save the settings when you exited the bios screen? If you did then power off the computer. Connect the monitor to the new card before you turn the computer on. It is possible the card may be bad.(When you boot up with the new card do you see the bios on the screen? If you can see the bios then the card should be working.) If your not sure you try the card on another system to make sure that the card works. BTW: The xf86-video-ati is the oss driver which is shipped with most distros. There is no reason to try and install some thing that is already there. |
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To possibly eliminate the 'bad card' factor, I went to the store and bought a new AMD Radeon HD6450, PCIe x16 and tried it. Exactly the same thing: nothing. Interestingly, lspci doesn't show any info on this new card at all. Quote:
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In any case if, as you say, I should see some video BIOS info on the monitor connected to the card, that's not happening so I'm obviously failing long before I get to any OS driver. I guess I can try a NVIDIA card instead of these AMD/ATI cards, or I can try a new motherboard. Probably the 1st logical thing to try is a NVIDIA card. Since the built-in VGA is NVIDIA, that should work, right? |
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https://www.cnet.com/products/amd-at...-512-mb/specs/ Well this person has the same setup with a different card and it worked for him. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28...expansion-card If only the firepro is connected to a monitor and nothing happens then it could be the card or the slot I guess. Bios should pick it up. |
It's beginning to sound like the bus, or slot. Have you got kernel support for that hardware? Have the cards got power supply connectors. It's a lot to ask of a motherboard to feed a few amps at 3.3V to a power hungry GPU without losing critical voltage along the way.
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Hello Mfoley,
In the RadicalDreamer post there a link that shows the card needs a 350W power supply. Is your power supply 350W? Also about xf86-video-ati-7.7.0-x86_64-1.txz you may want to uninstall then reinstall the package just in case you accident delete something you needed. |
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