Hello folks
I can't install the proprietary ati driver for the Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. At worst, I get no X. At best I get no 2D or 3D acceleration. As suggested by bridgman I'm creating this thread in hope that when a solution is found everyone else will benefit.
My system information follows:
Asus P6T motherboard
Intel i7 920
6GB RAM
Seagate sata HD 1.5TB
XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB
I'm running pure Debian/testing (squeeze), stock debian kernel
Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 3 12:28:22 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Xorg 7.3 (testing repository)
I've already tried to install:
1) Stock Debian packages (fglrx 9-2-2). They don't install because of a missing dependency ( libc6-i386 requires fglrx-glx-ia32 (<= 1:9-5-1) but only 1:9-2-2 is available). Anyway, after reading the bugfixes list, I would rather install something more recent, if possible.
2) Stock Debian sid packages (fglrx 9-8). There were too much dependency problems and I could migrate to Debian sid because I need some stability.
3) Debian packages 9-8-1 backported to testing. The drivers install, but I get no 2D or 3D.
4) Deb modules built directly from ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run, ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run and ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run.
When trying to build debian packages and then installing the deb files, the installation process failed because of missing libGl.so modules.
5) Direct installation process. I've tried that with ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run, ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run and ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run.
I ended up with the same results as item 3: no 2D or 3D. The system actually feels slower than when using pure Vesa driver.
6) As suggested by AdrenalineJunky, I've tried smxi (www.smxi.org), but got the same results: no 2D or 3D.
When I go through the Xorg logs it seems obvious that something went wrong, but I can't figure out how to fix it. There has been 2 weeks of head banging and I just don't have any more clues or ideas. lsmod shows that the fglrx module is there, but Xorr.0.log shows that it hasn't worked.
Here are the logs from #5 (straight ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run):
dmesg
Xorg.0.log
fglrx-install.log
Thanks in advance for any help,
Soeiro
I can't install the proprietary ati driver for the Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. At worst, I get no X. At best I get no 2D or 3D acceleration. As suggested by bridgman I'm creating this thread in hope that when a solution is found everyone else will benefit.
My system information follows:
Asus P6T motherboard
Intel i7 920
6GB RAM
Seagate sata HD 1.5TB
XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB
I'm running pure Debian/testing (squeeze), stock debian kernel
Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 3 12:28:22 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Xorg 7.3 (testing repository)
I've already tried to install:
1) Stock Debian packages (fglrx 9-2-2). They don't install because of a missing dependency ( libc6-i386 requires fglrx-glx-ia32 (<= 1:9-5-1) but only 1:9-2-2 is available). Anyway, after reading the bugfixes list, I would rather install something more recent, if possible.
2) Stock Debian sid packages (fglrx 9-8). There were too much dependency problems and I could migrate to Debian sid because I need some stability.
3) Debian packages 9-8-1 backported to testing. The drivers install, but I get no 2D or 3D.
4) Deb modules built directly from ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run, ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run and ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run.
When trying to build debian packages and then installing the deb files, the installation process failed because of missing libGl.so modules.
5) Direct installation process. I've tried that with ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run, ati-driver-installer-9-7-x86.x86_64.run and ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run.
I ended up with the same results as item 3: no 2D or 3D. The system actually feels slower than when using pure Vesa driver.
6) As suggested by AdrenalineJunky, I've tried smxi (www.smxi.org), but got the same results: no 2D or 3D.
When I go through the Xorg logs it seems obvious that something went wrong, but I can't figure out how to fix it. There has been 2 weeks of head banging and I just don't have any more clues or ideas. lsmod shows that the fglrx module is there, but Xorr.0.log shows that it hasn't worked.
Here are the logs from #5 (straight ati-driver-installer-9-8-x86.x86_64.run):
dmesg
Xorg.0.log
fglrx-install.log
Thanks in advance for any help,
Soeiro
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