Catalyst 10.4 fglrx support for HD 5830?

[Kano]

Good now you gave ATI even more money

[Kano]

I did not create the needed patches, those are from arch, its mentioned in the script too:

# http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ca...x-2.6.33.patch
# http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ca...6.34-rc4.patch

I just execute em on the fly when i detect that they are needed, which is simple, you only need to do

grep -q generated/autoconf.h common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c || echo no 2.6.33+ support - patch needed

Basically you could patch the already installed fglrx driver too. Just thats not automated. As soon as ATI has direct support the patches will not be applied.

[Kano]

Does not matter, the script checks it on the fly, independend of the version you install - you can use -v option to install any version you put into /usr/src before.

[Chybeck]

Hi,

May i have a quick how-to , to install it on ubuntu x64 10.04 ? i don't know how to patch, and it seems i'm the only one ubuntu user with a 5830...

Thanks!

[brouhaha]

I don't know about Ubuntu, but my experience with Fedora was that the first step of getting it installed was to return to the store and exchange it for a 5850. AFAIK, that's not Fedora-specific.

[Chybeck]

Bought on the internet :/ I smelled the issue a few days ago so i mailed them to ask if i can change with a ATI 5850 they didn't even reply :/

[brouhaha]

As far as I was able to determine (and no one here has said otherwise), Catalyst 10.4 doesn't seem to support the 5830. Maybe 10.5 will. Since it uses the same chip as the 5850 and 5870, it's might just be a matter of adding the 5830's PCI device ID to the list.

[Chybeck]

Solved with catalyst 10.5 !