How to get open source radeon for HD 4000 series?

[jonty789]

Hi everybody My first post here but I am a reader of phoronix for few months.

Recently I have been reading this

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4ODQ

And I am interesting in trying it out for my mobile HD 4000 something (I can't remember the exact model number)

And the article links to http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...ry/052969.html

But I not sure how to apply the driver and the kernel patch? (I do have some knowledge of kernel but not to that extend)

Can anyone help me please?

Thank you

[jonty789]

Anyone?

[jonty789]

Hi anybody?

[asdfblah]

Well, we need more info to help you.
What distro are you using, and what card, exactly?
run these commands:

lspci | grep VGA
lsb_release -dr
glxinfo | grep version
Xorg -version

[A Laggy Grunt]

Legacy driver.

It probably won't work nicely with newer X.Org. It works well enough with Debian Wheezy.

[jonty789]

Well, we need more info to help you.
What distro are you using, and what card, exactly?
run these commands:

lspci | grep VGA
lsb_release -dr
glxinfo | grep version
Xorg -version

Don't worry I got the solution from http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...-driver-report

Thanks for your help anyway

[jonty789]

Legacy driver.

It probably won't work nicely with newer X.Org. It works well enough with Debian Wheezy.

Well I did try that but it is terrible