Cannot get fglrx to work on my laptop.

rabcor · 2014-01-19 23:23:21

I have a "Hp Pavilion-Dv7 6109eo" laptop, i installed the AMD Catalyst drivers as suggested on the wiki through the unofficial [catalyst-stable] repository.

(these packages:
xorg 1.14.5-11
catalyst
catalyst-utils
lib32-catalyst-utils)

I then ran aticonfig --initial and tried to start X, it fails.

Here's a chunk from my Xorg log from the point where it started loading GLX. When i try to start X it sometimes gives me a blank screen fro a moment before it fails.

But for what i think is the most important bit of it see this:

[   508.151] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
[   508.151] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x103c, PciSubDevice = 0x3592)
[   508.151] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT original AMD
[   508.151] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xe0000000
[   508.151] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xf0300000
[   508.151] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00003000
[   508.151] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
[   508.153] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not VGA-enabled
[   508.153] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature!
[   508.153] (EE) fglrx(0): GetBIOSParameter failed
[   508.153] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter for slave 0 failed
[   508.153] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
[   508.153] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_xs114_atiddxPreInit] === end

Note: if you catch "Board is an unknown..." ignore it, that's not an error, it's a comment. Read the end of the line saying "chipset is supported", it stops at "Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not VGA-enabled"

I have an APU + switchable graphics card which makes this a sort of special circumstance i guess. Specs are in a link i gave, but lspci gives me

00:01.0 ...[AMD/ATI] Sumo [Radeon HD 6480G]
01:00.0 ...[AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series]

What can i do to troubleshoot? did i miss something on the wiki perhaps? (I know i made the Catalyst drivers work on my laptop at some point in the past, so it is possible. But at the time i used AUR and i remember i had to install catalyst-hook which i haven't done this time.)

So far i've tried: (I update this as i test things)
removing unneeded lines from xorg.conf
found thread with same problem but no solution (problem was fixed in 12.2 but returned in 12.6 it seems in that thread, but there's always a workaround...)

Off Topic questions:
Why is aticonf still using "xorg.conf" instead of making a file in "xorg.conf.d"? Does it just have a need to be special? Also, shouldn't the only lines needed for X to work be "Section "Device"", "Identifier" and "Driver"? that's all i need for nvidia proprietary drivers to work.

Last edited by rabcor (2014-01-20 02:36:42)

Algernop · 2014-02-09 19:50:09

Since you have hybrid graphics, did you at one point in time try the catalyst PXP (package: catalyst-total-pxp) drivers (and the appropriate drivers for the intel/AMD integrated graphics)? If so, did that spawn the same errors?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … ss_support

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics

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#1 2014-01-19 23:23:21

Cannot get fglrx to work on my laptop.

#2 2014-02-09 19:50:09

Re: Cannot get fglrx to work on my laptop.

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