[elrepo] AMD Radeon HD 2600 Pro

[Phil Perry]

On 24/07/13 23:53, Daniel Pierce wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Thank you for your last reply.  Based on your instructions I have done the
> following.
>
> # yum remove fglrx-x11-drv
> # init 0 to Reboot system
> # yum install fglrx-x11-drv
> # init 0 to Reboot system
>
> The video drivers continues to be radeon instead of fglrx when I do a lsmod
> | grep fglrx nothing is listed
> The following process are listed when I do lsmod | grep radeon.
>      radeon
>      ttm, drm_kms_helper, drm, i2c_algo_bit, i2c_core
>
> SECOND ROUND
>
> Installed the fglrx-x11-drv from the elrepo-testing repository and did the
> full process at init 3 so X was not running.
> During the installation it always says that it is installing 13.1 and you
> had noted that the testing repository had the 13.1 driver that supported the
> older AMD ATI boards.
>

The 13.1 version driver in the testing repo that supports your older 
hardware is the *legacy* driver. It is named kmod-fglrx-legacy & 
fglrx-legacy-x11-drv. So you should do:

yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install fglrx-legacy-x11-drv

Lets try again...

1. Uninstall the 13.1 driver from elrepo.
2. Reboot and confirm the default radeon driver is loaded.
3. Confirm you've downgraded Xorg to the last version that shipped with 
6.3 (reboot if necessary)
4. yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install fglrx-legacy-x11-drv
5. Reboot

> repeated the steps above with the same results.
>
>
> INSTALLATION STEPs  I went through what the driver is trying to do and got
> some poor results as follows
>
> # aticonfig --initial    -> No Supported Adapters  (why, the board is
> installed and is a AMD HD 2600 PRO video card)

See above - the driver you installed was the new version which doesn't 
support your hardware hence why it's showing no supported adapters.

To clarify, fglrx-x11-drv up to and including 12.4 supports your older 
hardware, version 13.1 does not. There is a *legacy* version of driver 
13.1 that supports older cards and the packages are named 
kmod-fglrx-legacy & fglrx-legacy-x11-drv. These legacy drivers should 
work with older cards on el6.4, but they do NOT support the latest 
version of Xorg, only the version of Xorg that shipped with el6.3. 
Apologies for any confusion.