HD 2600 PRO AGP - driver problems

[Spero]

Well, as soon as I noticed this thread, I signed up and read every post here. I have bought the same graphic card, Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP, finding out there wasn't any driver, sure wasn't good to hear. I check the ATI homepage 1 min later, and what do I see? The new version 8.3 :] When I had checked it only 2 min earlier with the old still there, 8.2

Now the BAD news: Trying to install this new version didn't work for me. Still getting the same error message, unsupported hardware or like that. Taking a look at the release notes, nothing in it (far as I could tell) mentions added AGP support.

[nadro]

Yes, Catalyst 8.3 for Windows doesn't support Radeon 2600 for AGP... I will try C8.3 for Linux... but link doesn't work... I like ATI products, I always bought only ATI cards, but this situation is not fair for users...

[theblackkat]

yeap, link doesn't work....

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bridgman, thanks for keeping us informed...
but i would realy appreciate some confirmation about 8.3 for linux supporting our card...

[theblackkat]

link is working now.....

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[Spero]

link is working now.....

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Glad to hear that I'll keep on hoping the next catalyst, 8.4, will have agp support...for Windows XP

[theblackkat]

good news everyone!!!!

i downloaded and succesfully instaled Catalyst 8.3 on my Ubuntu 7.10, and guess what....

IT WORKED!!!!!!!

everything seems to be alright, here is my output of fglrxinfo:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro AGP
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release

happy "HD2600 PRO AGP-ing"!!!!!

and thanks to everyone who made this happen..... ^^

[fred]

Ok not bad The card now work with the performance equivalent of a radeon 9250 card!!!!!

WTF did you guy's do at AMD did you test the driver on a few AGP HD2XXX before releasing this driver?

I hope that someone has some tweak for this driver because this card is returning in it's box again!

[fred]

compiz-fusion with AIGLX is OK But the gaming performance still is on par with a radeon 9250!!!

C'mon your so close HDR work and motion blur work too BTW

[lachyisded3]

Yes the january hotfix.
And gears of war still isnt working and Ive done a system restore.
Its this DX10 for xp it doesnt work.
But before I had it installed and just in general the card ran really badly with like 15fps in ANY game.
Lachy.

[nadro]

Drivers works properly on my Fedora Performance of speed isn't good, but this is first good step for 2xxx series AGP for Linux I run application on Linux (Catalyst 8.3) and Windows XP (the latest Omega Drivers) and on Linux I have about 160FPS, on Windows 310FPS, I hape than performance of speed will be better in C8.4