Today I came across this: AMD Catalyst™ Driver for AMD Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series
Unfortunately, installation on Ubuntu failed for me. For now I don’t have any OpenSuSe system installed on my laptop… So does anyone have experiences with it?
I read that this new version is maybe “fake”, that is, it does not contain any major updates, AMD only increased the numbering of the 12.6 version of catalyst. But maybe that’s only true for the windows equivalent.
I hope this driver will bring support for HD2/3/4xxx under OpenSuSe 12.3 (or other linux users with xorg >= 1.13)
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:26:02 +0000, ropeist wrote:
> So does anyone have experiences with it?
:raises hand:
I installed it on my desktop here (which has an integrated Radeon 4200HD
controller).
Works great. I’ve been flying X-Plane 9 with it and have also run
several games purchased through various humble bundles that I haven’t
been able to use in the past.
What makes you think it’s fake? It’s officially from ATI/AMD…
The new driver, amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-legacy-linux-x86.x86_64,
failed to install with the message
“fglrx installation requires that the system have kernel headers.
/lib/modules/3.7.3-1-desktop/build/include/linux/version.h cannot be found
on this system.”
probably it doesn’t work with your Kernel. It’s kind of a stupid question but, can you tell us how have you installed it?
Using the scripts to build the RPM or executing the .run file?
Greetings,
I’m requiring some help about the new proprietary driver 13.1 legacy, I have a Ati Mobility Radeon HD 4250.
I tried installing using the scripts atiupdate and makerpm, and finally using the .run archive but on all the cases, after a reboot I get a black screen, no response of the system.
Here’s the log for fglrx-install.log
Check if system has the tools required for installation.Uninstalling any previously installed drivers.
Unloading radeon module...
Unloading drm module...
ERROR: Module drm is in use by ttm,drm_kms_helper
[Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
[Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched.
[Message] Kernel Module : Found kernel module build environment, generating kernel module now.
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
rm -rf *.c *.h *.o *.ko *.a .??* *.symvers
make -C /lib/modules/3.4.11-2.16-desktop/build SUBDIRS=/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.4.11-2.16-obj/x86_64/desktop'
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_agp.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_ioctl.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_io.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_pci.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_str.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_iommu.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_wait.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.mod.o
LD [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/fglrx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.4.11-2.16-obj/x86_64/desktop'
build succeeded with return value 0
duplicating results into driver repository...
done.
You must change your working directory to /lib/modules/fglrx
and then call ./make_install.sh in order to install the built module.
- recreating module dependency list
- trying a sample load of the kernel modules
done.
[Reboot] Kernel Module : mkinitrd
Apparently, it’s a successful installation as no error message is reported and changes in the system are done (xorg.conf)
Also after doing a dmesg I get this when looking for fglrx, not sure why.
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Well, this is my current problem, hope you can give some light to this problem. Quite weird as openSuSE 12.1 could work well enough with the previous proprietary driver.
Also changes like no_kms and nomodeset are done before I installed the driver.
Don’t know if this is the 13.1 driver or not, but it works very well - I
get good framerates with X-Plane 9 and other software that requires HW
acceleration, even with per-pixel lighting and other advanced shader
settings enabled.
Yes, same link here, works great indeed, but that one is not the 13.1
I hope that the package in that repo will be updated soon with the latest 13.1 version.
> Yes, same link here, works great indeed, but that one is not the 13.1 I
> hope that the package in that repo will be updated soon with the latest
> 13.1 version.
Out of curiosity, what’s the draw of the 13.1 release? The one I liked
works very well (at least for me), so the version number itself isn’t
really important to me.
AMD’s Catalyst Legacy Linux Driver Updated To 13.1
Posted by Michael Larabel on January 21, 2013
While AMD has went months without updating their Catalyst “Legacy” Linux graphics driver for the Radeon HD 2000 through Radeon HD 4000 series graphics cards to support new X.Org Server / kernel releases and other bug-fixes, they decided today to finally put out an updated legacy driver! This updated AMD Catalyst Linux Legacy driver is tagged as version 13.1.
An official change-log for the legacy version of Catalyst 13.1 has yet to surface, but it looks like this updated legacy driver namely has support for new Linux kernel releases, support for the X.Org Server 1.13.x series, updated distribution packaging scripts, and various bug-fixes.
Being able to run the Catalyst Legacy driver for Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series hardware on new Linux distribution releases is a big deal since the open-source Radeon Linux driver often comes up short. The Catalyst driver remains superior when it comes to OpenGL compliance, OpenGL performance, power management, video acceleration, and numerous other features like AA/AF modes, CrossFire, PowerXpress, and much more.
It was in April of last year when Phoronix was first to report AMD would be dropping the HD 2000/3000/4000 series support from its mainline Catalyst driver. The last official update to this Linux legacy driver was Catalyst 12.6 from last summer.
This Catalyst 13.1 Legacy update comes just days after AMD released the Catalyst 13.1 driver as the first official update in a while. This mainline driver update featured X.Org Server 1.13.x support, improved performance for certain games (namely Valve’s Source Engine titles), and various fixes.
>> An official change-log for the legacy version of Catalyst 13.1 has yet
>> to surface, but it looks like this updated legacy driver namely has
>> support for new Linux kernel releases, support for the X.Org Server
>> 1.13.x series, updated distribution packaging scripts, and various
>> bug-fixes.
Hmm, so mostly this it looks like (without a changelog at least). So for
those who the existing legacy driver works, there doesn’t seem to be a
compelling reason to upgrade at this stage.
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:20:11 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:26:02 +0000, gzenum wrote:
>
>>> An official change-log for the legacy version of Catalyst 13.1 has
>>> yet to surface, but it looks like this updated legacy driver namely
>>> has support for new Linux kernel releases, support for the X.Org
>>> Server 1.13.x series, updated distribution packaging scripts, and
>>> various bug-fixes.
>
> Hmm, so mostly this it looks like (without a changelog at least). So
> for those who the existing legacy driver works, there doesn’t seem to be
> a compelling reason to upgrade at this stage.
Ah, but there are performance improvements to certain aspects for things
like Steam/Source Engine games. Helps to read the whole article, doesn’t
it?
Might have to have a look at it myself when I have some spare time.
I think the main thing is that 13.1 driver supports now x.org 1.13 server, we wouldn’t be able to use the old Catalyst driver with that one.
As for the support for new kernels, the old driver works fine with 3.7.4-1 kernel which I’m running right now, so I don’t know what they mean by that.
Bugfixes … i don’t know what to say about that one
And of course support for Steam is the big thing too.
You could go in
/lib/modules/3.7.7-1-desktop/build/include/
and do a
ln -s generated/uapi/linux linux
that’s where the version.h file is in newer kernels. The problem is that catalyst might not compile then against any kernel version even though it seems to go on with the installation.
In my case with a 3.7.7.1 kernel catalyst 13.1 does not manage to generate the kernel module so that is not of nay big help.
Hmmm, scratch that comment above, seems like 13.1 legacy driver is on the repo and I’ve been using that one without even knowing it was 13.1, assuming 8.97.100.7 → 13.1
Hi my good friends… Today I´m wondering how to make this ATI RADEON HD4200 gets running on any of the OpenSUSE distro. I´ve being trying get this **** Radeon work on any of the Distro Suse but none of success on the driver installation. So I´m asking any one of U if can U can guide me how to install the correct ati driver for ati radeon hd 4200. I hope someone help me through this process whit a variety of details. Thank U a LOT…Greetings
