[elrepo] FW: AMD Radeon HD 2600 Pro

[Phil Perry]

Glad you got it sorted and everything is working for you.

And thanks for the feedback - it's always good to know the drivers are 
working as expected as it's not possible for us to test without access 
to the physical hardware.

Regards,

Phil

On 25/07/13 19:26, Daniel Pierce wrote:
> Phil,
>
> Installed the proper Legacy drivers and they worked great.
>
> My fault for not going back to the previous post to get the correct name.
>
> Thank  you for all the help.
> Pierce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org
> [mailto:elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org] On Behalf Of Phil Perry
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:10 PM
> To: elrepo at lists.elrepo.org
> Subject: Re: [elrepo] AMD Radeon HD 2600 Pro
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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