[elrepo] ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro Driver

[Phil Perry]

On 22/07/13 23:09, Daniel Pierce wrote:
> ELRepo Mailing List.
>
> I'm in the process of bringing up a CentOS V6.4 server and I'm not able to
> install a valid ATI Radeon Video Driver and I'm hoping that this list can
> point me in the right direction.
> Now I'm a Noob to setting up CentOS so maybe I'm missing something simple.
> Here is the configuration.
>
> HARDWARE
>    Motherboard:   MSI 990FXA-GD65
>    Chip Set:         AMD 990FX  and AMD SB950
>    Memory:          6 Gig DDR3
>    Video Card:     HIS HD 2600 Pro with ATI Radeon HD 2600 Chipset
>
> The server isn't doing much graphics, so I don't need a high end video
> board, plus because it is an older board I hopped that the drivers would be
> available.
>
> OS
>     Centos V6.4   64bit configuration
>     X11 system
>
> DRIVERS
> I've installed ELRepo based on the www.elrepo.org web site
>
> I've installed the ATI drivers with:
>
> yum install kmod-fglrx fglrx-x11-drv
>
> both installed properly with kmod-fglrx Version 13.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> which looks to be the latest.
> I understand that I need to initialize the drivers with:
>
>       aticonfig --initial        it gives Error:
>
>       No Supported Adapters Detected.
>
> when I start AMD Catalyst Control Center it gives Error:
>
>       No AMD Graphics driver is installed or the AMD driver is not
> functioning properly.
>
> when I go to PREFERENCES-> DISPLAY it limits the display sizes to a max of
> 1024 X 768 as a max which looks like it doesn't have a video driver.  The
> display is Unknown.
>
> IS there a different driver set for this older video board or am I missing
> someting in the basic CentOS configuration?
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Pierce
>
>

Hi Pierce,

Unfortunately your hardware is currently unsupported by AMD on el-6.4

If I may explain, two things transpired against you around the time of 
the 6.4 release. Firstly, the el6.4 release used a newer version of Xorg 
(version 1.13). Around the same time, AMD dropped support for older HD 
series cards (specifically HD 2000/3000/4000 series cards) which are now 
only supported by their legacy driver and this legacy driver does not 
have support for the latest version of Xorg in the el6.4 release.

At this time you have two rather limited options:

1. Don't use the proprietary AMD drivers - use the inbuilt kernel 
drivers which offer only limited 3D support.

2. If you need the 3D features / support of the proprietary drivers then 
use either the kmod-fglrx-12.4 driver in the main repository OR the 
kmod-fglrx-legacy-13.1 in the testing repository AND you will need to 
downgrade Xorg to the last version that shipped with el6.3.

6 months on there is no sign of AMD backporting support for newer 
versions of Xorg into their legacy drivers for older HD 2000/3000/4000 
series hardware. Ultimately it appears AMD would like you to purchase 
newer hardware.

Our fglrx page details some of the above here:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-fglrx

Sorry I can't be of more help,

Phil