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doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 160

I need help to install catalyst drivers

I have an old PC (AMD 3200+) with a Radeon 9600 video card. Video performance with community driver is extremely poor, and I have problems even with simple stuff, like watching SD videos with VLC. I decided to try installing catalyst to see if performance improves, but I had no luck so far.

I'm not sure, but I think that my card is supported by catalyst-hd234k driver. And I think I have to downgrade xorg to version 1.12 for this driver to work (or maybe it will work with version 1.16, I'm not sure).

Currently, the main problem I have is that catalyst-hook depends on linux<4.2. I have tried installing and booting linux-lts (version 4.1.8), but this does not satisfy the dependency problem, so I don't know what to do right now.

Any suggestions? Is it safe to ignore the dependency and continue? Or how can I build a linux kernel that satisfies it?

It would be nice having a dummy-proof updated guide dealing with installing this drivers.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

did you check the catalyst article in the Wiki?

doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 160

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

did you check the catalyst article in the Wiki?

Of course. There's no mention about the kernel version problem on the wiki.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

Did you read AUR comments? Catalyst thread on the forums? What are you trying to install exactly? Some catalyst packages were updated several days ago, removing the linux<4.2 dependency.

Last edited by Raynman (2015-10-03 22:47:34)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

What "community driver"?

Radeon 9600? Use the default xf86-video-ati driver, it's the only one that works. Out of the box even, nothing to configure.

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doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 160

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

I'm using "radeon" driver (contained inside package xf86-video-ati). I didn't have to configure anything, but as I told, performance is poor.

Maybe some catalyst packages were updated, but the one I'm trying to install (catalyst-hd234k) requires linux<4.2 as of today.

I'm not sure if catalyst-hd234k will support my card (I have read somewhere that catalyst 9.3 is the last version supporting radeon9600), but I wanted to try.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,396

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

catalyst-hd234k for the legacy Catalyst driver needed by Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx cards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso … sing_units

Your 9600 uses a RV350 (shivah) chipset, which is NOT supported by catalyst-HD234k .
You'll prob get best results by removing xf86-video-ati and using Xorg modesetting driver instead (comes with xorg-server since 1.16 or 1.17).

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doragasu

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 160

Re: I need help to install catalyst drivers

So as I suspected, Radeon 9600 is not supported. OK, I'll try the modesetting driver. Thanks!