AMD Radeon Legacy - Mobility RadeonHD 4250

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I’ve tried to install the fglrx64_legacy_xpic_SUSE122 package for my Mobility RadeonHD 4250.

On boot, I can’t get to the login screen, because I get a black screen and I can’t even change to text terminals (ctrl,alt,fn).
When I start with recovery mode and try to launch the catalyst control center I get an initialization error of I don’t have the driver installed or it’s not configured properly.
I’ve tried aticonfig --initial but it didn’t work. (It saves the conf file, but I still can’t get the driver to work)

I followed the instructions on SDB:AMD fglrx legacy - openSUSE.

I don’t know if this driver even works, because there is a sticky in this forum that says don’t install any driver on hd4000.
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/476554-dont-update-ati-proprietary-driver-radeon-hd-4000-radeon-hd-3000-radeon-hd-2000-a.html

On opensuse 12.1 the 12.4 driver worked. This is a fresh install of 12.2.

Could anybody help me, or tell me if this driver is working?

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@szaboa07

What HW are you installing on?

What kernel do you have installed?

Is your OS 64bit or 32bit?

the legacy driver installed ok on PC with,
ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4250]
Kernel 3.6.0-3-desktop x86_64
fglrx Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz
Desktop KDE 4.9.2
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
(graphics ok with HDMI i/f or VDI, but not both together)

the legacy driver gave a black screen on HP-625,
but it works with the Radeonhd driver,
ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series]
Kernel 3.5.3-1-desktop x86_64
ati,radeonhd (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,radeon) Resolution: 1366x768@59.6hz
Desktop KDE 4.9.00
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
(access to this machine is limited so not investigated further)
(legacy driver worked ok with 32bit OS installed)

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My hardware is a Mobility RadeonHD 4250 as I writed above. It is a notebook graphics card. My notebook is a HP Compaq Presario Cq-56.

Kernel is 3.4.11-2.16-desktop

And my OS is a 64-bit version.

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@szaboa07

Sorry can’t help, no HW available.

Suggest you try a 32bit install if you require 3D acceleration.
(I suspect the HP bios graphics i/f is not fully 64bit compatible,
but this is a wild guess)

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Tried to find an answer, re-install the driver etc. still not working.

Also, fglrxinfo gives the following:

X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  136 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  12
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Can you try with this?

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@szaboa07

Googleearth was the only reason for wanting the legacy proprietary driver
installed on the HP-625, which was found necessary with the kernel 3.4’s
(but patching of the driver was necessary)

With Kernel 3.5.3-1-desktop x86_64, from Tumbleweed, this was found to be unnecessary

Have you tried the kernel in Tumbleweed12.2 together with the radeonhd driver
for your requirements?

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I’ve tried that, not working :frowning:

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@szaboa07

did you make sure you have the following packages installed before
installing the graphics driver?

kernel-default-devel
kernel-desktop
kernel-desktop-devel
kernel-devel
kernel-source
kernel-syms
kernel-xen-devel
kernel-firmware

all should be of the same same version except for kernel-firmware,
on a normal PC the driver will not install correctly without all of the above

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All installed and same version.

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I tried tumbleweed, driver still not working, plus mozilla doesn’t start :smiley: (never thought I’d use konqueror)

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@szaboa07

Sorry for wasting your time.

Getting the graphics working has sometimes been a pain.

Its tricky with hybrid graphics cards

don’t give up, publish when successful

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ok, can you paste the output?