Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

phunni · 2014-07-25 16:08:32

I want to try and use the official catalyst drivers for this card (X1950 XT, R580+) because the open source drivers simply don't have the 3D chops for the games I want to play.

When trying to run "aticonfig" I get the dreaded

 aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

error. I've managed to get past this using the solution described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … etected.22

However, having then set everything up as described in the wiki, the system fails to load the "fglrx" driver because it cannot find a compatible device.

From having looked around, it may be that I simply require an older version of xorg, or perhaps even an older kernel. I'm really hoping, however, that there's a way of getting this working without having ot rely on legacy xorg/kernel packages.

Does anyone else have catalyst working with a card like this?

Edit: I have tried the packages in the catalyst, catalyst-stable and the catalyst-hd234k repositories, with no success.

Last edited by phunni (2014-07-25 16:10:44)

emeres · 2014-07-25 16:58:36

Are you certain that card was supported by fglrx at any time?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ATI_FAQ/en … pported.3F
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Catalyst (introduction chapter, supported chips > R600)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison … .29_Series

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-25 17:17:38)

phunni · 2014-07-25 19:49:40

Not certain, no. Am I completely out of luck on this?

clfarron4 · 2014-07-25 21:30:00

You'd be looking at AMD Catalyst 9 (at the latest) or before with that card. Ubuntu 12.04.0 shipped with AMD Catalyst 8 and I believe that works with it.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2014-07-25 21:30:14)

phunni · 2014-07-26 19:13:50

Thanks - that's really helpful. Do you happen to know if 8/9 are compatible with the current Xorg? I'm assuming I can just edit some PKGBUILD files somewhere to get hold of and install 8/9...?

phunni · 2014-07-26 19:26:04

According to this link: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/d … x%20x86_64 the latest version that supports this card is 9.3

Slithery · 2014-07-26 19:27:20

I'm afraid your out of luck, the old catalyst drivers don't build against the latest versions of xorg.

Your stuck with using the open source driver with that card.

emeres · 2014-07-26 19:33:41

http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-12.04/ubuntu-res … 4.deb.html
http://pkgs.org/ubuntu-12.04/ubuntu-res … 6.deb.html
Maybe you can strip something useful from these. There are also other packages. I wish the best of luck to you, still I think it will be a little bit more difficult than editing a PKGBUILD. Going back with xorg to versions that work with catalyst 9 would be the first step, I would argue. Hopefully you will not need any custom kernel patches.

Edit: Too slow, yet again.

Last edited by emeres (2014-07-26 19:34:29)

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#1 2014-07-25 16:08:32

Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#2 2014-07-25 16:58:36

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#3 2014-07-25 19:49:40

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#4 2014-07-25 21:30:00

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#5 2014-07-26 19:13:50

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#6 2014-07-26 19:26:04

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#7 2014-07-26 19:27:20

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

#8 2014-07-26 19:33:41

Re: Trying to get the Catalyst driver working with my X1950 XT card

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