KDE Live Radeon HD6950 not working

I tried the 13.1 KDE live on several machines.

Toshiba L550D Radeon 4200 working with Desktop Effects (yay)

Dell Precision 490 Dual Xeon Quadcore mit Eyfinity6 Radeon HD6950 bleibt beim Splashscreen dem vierten Symbol stehen und dann geht es nicht mehr. Gleiche für die Radeon HD7970 E

Need to start ICEwm to try 13.1 but I do not know how o configure multi monitor.

Did you try any of the boot options? Like No KMS?

The Radeon HD6950 and HD6930 are working flawless with my 6 monitors using OpenSuse 12.3.

I tried to start with NO KMS and the result is, that I can use only 1 of my 6 monitors while actually the first Dp1 monitor is mirrored on DP2. and not even 1900x1080 only 1280x1024

But SOOOO painfully slow. No way to work with this

I am writing this using 13.1 rc1

19.958377] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can’t or
intel_rng: don’t want to disable this in firmware setup, and if
intel_rng: you are certain that your system has a functional
intel_rng: RNG, try using the ‘no_fwh_detect’ option.
19.991642] i5k_amb: probe of i5k_amb.0 failed with error -16
20.036989] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
20.042188] type=1400 audit(1383000435.064:10): apparmor=“STATUS” operation=“profile_load” name=“/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver” pid=1962 comm=“apparmor_parser”
20.053992] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000828-0x000000000000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GLBC 1 (20130517/utaddress-251)
20.054020] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000828-0x000000000000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \SACT 2 (20130517/utaddress-251)
20.054030] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000828-0x000000000000082f SystemIO conflicts with Region \SSTS 3 (20130517/utaddress-251)
20.054039] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
20.054083] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
20.092914] EDAC MC0: Giving out device to ‘i5000_edac.c’ ‘I5000’: DEV 0000:00:10.0
20.092944] EDAC PCI0: Giving out device to module ‘i5000_edac’ controller ‘EDAC PCI controller’: DEV ‘0000:00:10.0’ (POLLED)
20.139034] device label SSD_tmp devid 1 transid 155486 /dev/sda2
20.144037] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: SMBus using PCI Interrupt
20.166100] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input4
20.270251] type=1400 audit(1383000435.292:11): apparmor=“STATUS” operation=“profile_load” name=“/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth” pid=1975 comm=“apparmor_parser”
20.363282] dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
20.524429] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
20.525953] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.10
20.526038] iTCO_wdt: unable to reset NO_REBOOT flag, device disabled by hardware/BIOS
20.544403] gpio_ich: ACPI BAR is unavailable, GPI 0 - 15 unavailable
20.544684] gpio_ich: GPIO from 206 to 255 on gpio_ich
20.607277] device label SSD_tmp devid 1 transid 155486 /dev/sda2
20.649334] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 65 for MSI/MSI-X
20.748583] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:393 autoconfig: line_outs=1 (0xe/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
20.748591] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:397 speaker_outs=1 (0x11/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
20.748594] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:401 hp_outs=1 (0xd/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
20.748597] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:402 mono: mono_out=0x0
20.748599] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:406 inputs:
20.748605] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:410 Mic=0x10
20.748608] ALSA hda_auto_parser.c:410 Line=0xf
20.754431] input: HDA Intel Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input5
20.754602] input: HDA Intel Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input6
20.754722] input: HDA Intel Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input7
20.754833] input: HDA Intel Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8
20.755660] ALSA hda_intel.c:3116 0000:07:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client
20.755666] ALSA hda_intel.c:3317 0000:07:00.1: Using LPIB position fix
20.755742] snd_hda_intel 0000:07:00.1: irq 66 for MSI/MSI-X
20.758132] ALSA hda_intel.c:1787 0000:07:00.1: Enable sync_write for stable communication
20.783724] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting.
20.783735] [drm:radeon_init] ERROR No UMS support in radeon module!
20.783975] input: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:07:00.1/sound/card1/input9
29.242839] tg3 0000:0b:00.0: irq 67 for MSI/MSI-X
29.287185] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp11s0: link is not ready
29.661611] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
29.661659] NET: Registered protocol family 31
29.661664] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
29.661683] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
29.661690] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
29.661704] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
29.718258] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
29.718267] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
29.718290] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
32.351141] tg3 0000:0b:00.0 enp11s0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
32.351167] tg3 0000:0b:00.0 enp11s0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
32.351199] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp11s0: link becomes ready
32.649376] NET: Registered protocol family 17
66.364841] systemd-readahead[1818]: Out of memory.

The HD6950e6 has 2GB RAM, my system is supposed to have 2x8GB RAM … why am I out of memory?

Workaround for HD6xxx users to get the KDE desktop running:

Issue are the activated desktop effects.

to disable:

Kill the loading kde desktop by hitting twice: STRG-ALT-BACKSPACE

start ICWwm session

open terminal, type dolphin, go to folder

.kde4/share/config/

open kwinrc with kwrite

change: CompositinIsUnsafe=false to CompositinIsUnsafe=true

save and exit document.

exit ICWwm, start KDE it is starting.

(WTF the live image does not contain LibreOffice Calc or other spreadheet??? Really???)

At the moment my system is ultra lagging. Insanely slow.

So I am looking for sth better. Switching off desktops effects in 13.2rc2 lets me use 13.2rc2, but painfully slow.

When I use 13.10 live Kubuntu I have working desktop effects and everything is smooth and fast.

So there is obviousely something wrong with suse.

Installed from GM DVD 64 - all thumbs and fine including 3D :):):slight_smile:

[QUOTE=max_spam;2594039]I tried the 13.1 KDE live on several machines.

>[drm:radeon_init] ERROR No UMS support in radeon module!

Guess this is solved with the 3.13 kernel and the latest firmware, xf86-video-ati update from factory.
Just solved the same error here.

Kind Regards,

Peter