Hi,
I would like to elaborate a little about a problem I've been having regarding the installation of fglrx drivers on my system with 64bit linux, hoping that someone of the devs will respond . My gfx is HD2600XT, and my motherboard asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 (which has SB600 southbridge).
Here is what I have tried in more easily understandable manner:
- 64bit linux + 2GB RAM + fglrx = runs Ok.
- 64bit linux + 4GB RAM + fglrx = X doesn't start, blocks before login screen.
- 64bit linux + 4GB RAM + radeon | radeonhd = runs Ok.
- 32bit linux + 4GB RAM + fglrx = runs Ok, of course ram limited to 3.2GB.
I have tried with: openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 8.10 and Sabayon 4.
I have read that SB600 reports that it supports 64bit DMA, but it doesn't, and this is fixed in the ahci driver. MSI and Gigabyte fixed this in a BIOS update, but not ASRock.
I beleive that the problem is that somehow fglrx expects 64bit DMA in 64bit operating system, without testing for chipset support. I am not sure how radeon | radeonhd have this solved. Maybe someone could test this, or report this same issue.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I would like to elaborate a little about a problem I've been having regarding the installation of fglrx drivers on my system with 64bit linux, hoping that someone of the devs will respond . My gfx is HD2600XT, and my motherboard asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 (which has SB600 southbridge).
Here is what I have tried in more easily understandable manner:
- 64bit linux + 2GB RAM + fglrx = runs Ok.
- 64bit linux + 4GB RAM + fglrx = X doesn't start, blocks before login screen.
- 64bit linux + 4GB RAM + radeon | radeonhd = runs Ok.
- 32bit linux + 4GB RAM + fglrx = runs Ok, of course ram limited to 3.2GB.
I have tried with: openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 8.10 and Sabayon 4.
I have read that SB600 reports that it supports 64bit DMA, but it doesn't, and this is fixed in the ahci driver. MSI and Gigabyte fixed this in a BIOS update, but not ASRock.
I beleive that the problem is that somehow fglrx expects 64bit DMA in 64bit operating system, without testing for chipset support. I am not sure how radeon | radeonhd have this solved. Maybe someone could test this, or report this same issue.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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