Arch with dual ATI graphics card

lonewolf28 · 2017-07-09 21:16:37

Hello fellow archers,
I've been using Arch for a couple of years now. And I recently removed windows10 from my dual graphics laptop and decided to install arch.
But I have few issues with the driver for the dual graphics being recognized.
First, these are graphics card in play

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7660G] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0697
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
        Memory at f0500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
	!!! Unknown header type 7f
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

For the second graphics card, I'm getting unknown header type.
I'm currently using the following driver listed below

[hacker@viper ~]$ sudo pacman -Q | grep -e 'video-ati'
xf86-video-ati 1:7.9.0-1

I also tried installing the amdgpu driver but to no avail.
The two cards are listed but I can only use one as of the moment.

[hacker@viper ~]$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x7c cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:ARUBA @ pci:0000:00:01.0
Provider 1: id: 0x45 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 6 outputs: 0 associated providers: 1 name:TURKS @ pci:0000:01:00.0

These are the errors I see when I boot the system and they show up in CLI at randome as well.

[hacker@viper ~]$ sudo dmesg | grep -i 'error'
[    2.691727] usb 6-4: string descriptor 0 read error: -22
[   15.142024] usb 6-4: string descriptor 0 read error: -22
[   27.904205] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ERAM] (ffff8801a889ff30) [EmbeddedControl] (20170119/evregion-166)
[   27.904311] ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl (ID=3) has no handler (20170119/exfldio-299)
[   27.904390] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.PX02] (Node ffff8801a88a3b90), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)
[   27.904517] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.ATPX] (Node ffff8801a88a3668), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)
[  112.841477] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ERAM] (ffff8801a889ff30) [EmbeddedControl] (20170119/evregion-166)
[  112.841584] ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl (ID=3) has no handler (20170119/exfldio-299)
[  112.841663] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.PX02] (Node ffff8801a88a3b90), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)
[  112.841787] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.ATPX] (Node ffff8801a88a3668), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)
[  121.775303] ACPI Error: No handler for Region [ERAM] (ffff8801a889ff30) [EmbeddedControl] (20170119/evregion-166)
[  121.775319] ACPI Error: Region EmbeddedControl (ID=3) has no handler (20170119/exfldio-299)
[  121.775334] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.PX02] (Node ffff8801a88a3b90), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)
[  121.775361] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PCI0.VGA.ATPX] (Node ffff8801a88a3668), AE_NOT_EXIST (20170119/psparse-543)

Can someone please help me where I'm going wrong and how to fix the above predicament. Apart from the above errors the laptop gets hot after 10 mintues of light usage.

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by lonewolf28 (2017-07-09 21:21:10)

Lone_Wolf · 2017-07-10 11:43:50

Welcome to the arch linux forum.
We have a rule : one issue per thread, please check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct .

- Dual graphics can also mean you have 2 discrete videocards in your system, a system with an integrated and discrete videocard is usually reffered to as a Hybrid Graphics system. Search wiki for PRIME for details how they can be used.

- The ACPI Errors are typically harmless and often caused by faulty bios/uefi firmware implementations.
Other OSes tend to hide them from the user.

- No idea about the usb error.

Please choose an issue to handle in this thread and create separate threads for the other issues.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2017-07-10 11:45:07)

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#1 2017-07-09 21:16:37

Arch with dual ATI graphics card

#2 2017-07-10 11:43:50

Re: Arch with dual ATI graphics card

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