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Ownaginatious

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Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 60

What to do about the Catalyst unsupported Radeon X600?

So I have an older Radeon X600 PCIe card I'm using in a server right now, and unfortunately it appears there is no Catalyst support from ATI.

I need this card to support 3D acceleration because I need 3D acceleration in VirtualBox, which I run headless from the server. I tried using the open source drivers, but they don't appear to allow me to enable 3D acceleration in virtualbox (or even 2D acceleration).

Does anyone know of a way I could get 2D/3D acceleration working on this card? Would I need to drop back to a much older version of Catalyst (this card has been unsupported for a couple of years now)? Or do I simply have the open source stuff configured incorrectly?

Thanks!

handy

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 719

Re: What to do about the Catalyst unsupported Radeon X600?

Did you try following Perry3D's instructions (don't forget to enable the spiralinear.org repo) for using the -git packages?

They haven't caused any stability problems for me for a VERY long time (been using them at least 18 months).

The first post here has all & more than you need to install:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509&p=1

If you can't get what you need that way you may have to replace the card (if you have a machine that allows such).

Last edited by handy (2012-01-12 01:14:28)

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Ownaginatious

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Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 60

Re: What to do about the Catalyst unsupported Radeon X600?

Hi there,

Thanks for the response. I had seen some vague references to some kind of git drivers on other websites, but never found what they were talking about. Anyway, I installed the drivers - and they work! 3D acceleration can be enabled in virtual box now .

I get this strange error when I try to run the actual virtualbox application though:

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: xcb_glx_set_client_info_2arb

Not sure what it's about, but I can enable 3D acceleration through modifying the VM config files manually and then launching in headless mode. I guess I'll wait... people seem to think the issue has to do with mesa and will eventually be corrected through updates.

NightCrawler03X

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Registered: 2010-07-23

Posts: 8

Re: What to do about the Catalyst unsupported Radeon X600?

Hi,

It is good to read that you have got it working. I dropped in here to give some information.

My older system had this card (X600 SE), and it worked perfectly with xf86-video-ati driver, with full 3D acceleration. This was using the one provided in the default Arch Linux repositories.

xf86-video-ati also works well for many RadeonHD cards (for example, my HD5670).

As for AMD's binary drivers,

AMD dropped support for this card in  their FGLRX/Catalyst drivers some years ago. There is a legacy driver, but it will require an older version of Xorg.

You can find more information about it here, if you wish to use that driver:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … ng=English (x86 and x86_64 drivers)

I am not sure what could have changed in xf86-video-ati that drops support, natively, for this card. Perhaps it was removed and added to an alternative driver (xf86-video-radeon?).

I still have within my vicinity the card in question, but the machine that it is in, I gave to my family for shared use. That machine is currently running Windows XP, their favourite operating system (thus, I cannot test it to find out more).

Last edited by NightCrawler03X (2012-01-15 18:50:34)