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YankeeFan

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 19

What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

Hello.  I've been trying to get this damn ATI card to work but can't seem to figure it out.  I've tried the 8.8 drivers in the core repository -and- the 8.11 drivers in the testing repository and neither work.  Is there a stable driver that I can use to make this work before I take a sledgehammer to this machine???   One thing I have learned is that I will NEVER buy an ATI product again.

Last edited by YankeeFan (2008-11-14 21:05:02)

mélodie

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From: France

Registered: 2006-12-31

Posts: 18

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Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

Hello,

You are right, you might want to sell it to me for a small price ? 

Did you try either the fglrx driver or the catalyst ? I guess you got the 8.11 directly from ati website. (no ?)

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardware

(See RADEON HD section)

Would you give details about what do not work ? We are not seeing your machine : please send details such as "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE" and "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW" after you start X, or if you get X to work, say what goes wrong : did you "glxinfo | grep rendering" ?

Else ?

jotapesan

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From: chile

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 27

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Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

i use this card on my pc, and it works, even with the old drivers. ¿what is your problem? if is xvideo, i suggest to use in mplayer x11 output with -zoom option.

Last edited by jotapesan (2008-11-16 01:38:32)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

I have an ATI HD 3100, and the one from testing works pefectly (along with the new X server).
The older one in core works okay, too, but has some annoying quirks and occasionally locks my system up.
If it helps, this is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option      "XkbOption" "compose:ralt"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "synaptics"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option        "LeftEdge" "1700"
    Option        "RightEdge" "5300"
    Option        "TopEdge" "1700"
    Option        "BottomEdge" "4200"
    Option        "FingerLow" "25"
    Option        "FingerHigh" "30"
    Option        "MaxTapTime" "180"
    Option        "MaxTapMove" "220"
    Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
    Option        "MinSpeed" "0.06"
    Option        "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
    Option        "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
    Option        "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "VideoOverlay" "on"
    Option        "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option        "TexturedVideo" "on"
    Option        "UseFastTLS" "1"
    #BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group        "video"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-11-16 04:27:22)

mélodie

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From: France

Registered: 2006-12-31

Posts: 18

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Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

Hi, by the way, I (poor frenchy) know what a hammer is, but not a sledgehammer : someone would tell me about it ? 

RagingDragon

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Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 24

Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

Hi, by the way, I (poor frenchy) know what a hammer is, but not a sledgehammer : someone would tell me about it ? 

Sledgehammer = really big hammer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer

YankeeFan

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 19

Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

Ok...so I have the X server finally working using the 8.11 version of the driver from the testing repository.  Only problem is my keyboard and mouse do not respond...What am I missing here?

Inkaine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 88

Re: What driver to use for an ATI Radeon HD 3200?

*sigh*

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58994
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59095

/me wonders when ppl will finally learn to read pacman's nice lil install messages - or why devs make the effort to write them at all...