Radeon HD 4650 AGP

[mr_marmalade]

Thanks Kano, that script is for Kantonix & I'm using Debian, although I think it is based on Debian. When I do try to run it anyway it gives errors about not being Kantonix & that the script must be run outwith X! Is there a Debian version available?

Is the script purely for better fglrx installation so that it doesn't break with other system updates, or are there other improvements that would solve the video playback problem I described? You can tell I'm not a power-user/programmer!

[Kano]

As long as your Xserver is not too new, like Debian squeeze is too new it does not break anything. It needs a correct (or missing) xorg.conf file, so

rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

will be ok. Debian lenny writes for example keyboard settings in there. For newer distros this file just does not exist.

[damentz]

I also have the Radeon HD 4650 AGP 1GB card and it works as well as it could using FGLRX. The only problem I'm having is the same with the open source radeon and radeonhd drivers. Using the latest radeon git was the only way I was able to get my desktop running on open source drivers and anything 3D besides Kwin desktop effects will crash X.

FGLRX works on my end perfectly. It may be the hardware (Shuttle nForce 2) or the software mix, who knows.

It's running Debian Sid (Xserver and Xorg packages are on hold for 1.6.5) + the Liquorix kernels (2.6.32.7).

The Liquorix kernels have MTRR cleanup support enabled + x86 PAT support - this may explain why I'm having more success than the rest of you

[damentz]

Hmm, editing posts was disabled for dumb reason. But here's the output of inxi for anyone interested.

$ inxi -F
System:    Host damentz-box Kernel 2.6.32-7.dmz.1-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) Distro sidux 2009-02 Αιθήρ - kde-lite - (200907141544)
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (UP) cache 512 KB flags (sse) bmips 4411.82 clocked at 2205.059 MHz
Graphics:  Card ATI RV730 Pro AGP [Radeon HD 4600 Series] X.Org 1.6.5 Res: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series    GLX Version 3.2.9252 Compatibility Profile Context Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card-1 ATI RV710/730 driver HDA Intel
           Card-2 Creative Labs SB Audigydriver EMU10K1_Audigy at port c000
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller driver b43-pci-bridge
           Card-2 nVidia nForce2 Ethernet Controller driver forcedeth at port ec00
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (3.3% used) 1: /dev/sda  500.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 12G used: 4.1G (39%) fs: ext4 ID:/boot size: 122M used: 17M (15%) fs: ext2
           ID:/home size: 447G used: 12G (3%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 1.02GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 37.50C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes 107 Uptime 5:23 Memory 250.0/2026.1MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.3.4

Wow, the GPU idles at 37.5*C, nice going ATi!