Problem with old laptop(Is there any driver available for this AMD Card)??

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#1

Hallo guys I try to solve a problem with my old laptop an hp pavilion dv6. I have openSUSE 42.2 Leap (x86_64) and my problem is if there is a driver which could be compantible with my system and specific hardware

Here is my Graphics Card

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M] (rev ff)

I need a graphics driver because i am aircraft designer and enginneer and rocket designer and engineer. I need a driver to run designing programs.

Thank you for your help.

#2

Hi
Since it’s not in the GCN group of GPU’s, your stuck with the OSS radeon driver now.

#3

hi,

hw & standard sw as follows, much older than your os

A780GM-m3<2017Jan27@16:54><~/Updates/42.2/packets/2017-01>... grep radeon rqa-A780GM-m3-170126.txt 
libdrm_radeon1-2.4.68-1.4.x86_64
libdrm_radeon1-32bit-2.4.68-1.4.x86_64
libvdpau_radeonsi-11.2.2-166.1.x86_64
A780GM-m3<2017Jan27@16:55><~/Updates/42.2/packets/2017-01>... 

Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.95hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 (DRM 2.48.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.2 Direct Rendering: Yes

does the radeon driver not work with your setup?

cheers

ps. also have not found a problem on laptops, Toshiba SM60 or HP-Pavilian with this driver

#4

Thank you for your replies the problem is that i have to have a driver for processing the 3d acceleration for designing programs. It needs a driver. I want to ask you if there is a close sourse or opensource driver available for this version and graphics hardware who i already have.

@keellambert: you mean the flgrx driver??? I I have seen that it is not compantible with 42.2. Which driver you mean??? You have a link??

#5

Please post in Code-Tags:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'vga|3d|display'

and

cat /proc/cmdline
#6

Here is

stamos@linux-o9gg:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'vga|3d|display'
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6520G] [1002:9647]
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:358d]
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M] [1002:6741] (rev ff)
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)

and

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.36-8-default root=UUID=faa9574b-34c6-4dfb-8e89-2599493115a7 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent quiet showopts
#7

You have installed the Driver Radeon for both Cards. Its the only one for this Cards in newer Distributions.

The Driver should work.
You switched to openGL?

If not, post the Konsole-Output of the Programm, which is not working.

Maybe you can install a newer Kernel from kernel:stable and see, if the Radeon Driver from that Kernel is working better.

#8

I have xrender because it does not work on openGL 2 nor openGL 3. It stucks.

Which is the new kernel repository to make the upgrade?? and which is the driver link to install??

#9

The Radeon Driver is a build in Kernel-Driver. Nothing to install seperatly.


I have xrender because it does not work on openGL 2 nor openGL 3. It stucks.

What does not work/stucks?

Here is the Link of the kernel:stable Repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/

#10

It shutters the graphics. Ok i have add the repo. Is there any link of driver to install??

#11 
Is there any link of driver to install??

There is no seperate Driver, all Drivers are build in the Kernel.
So install kernel-default from that Repo with:

zypper dup --from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/

That will switch all installed Package to the Packages of that Repo, if they are avaible in that Repo.

But I hope, you have not installed other Kernel-packages such as virtualbox, broadcom-wl or similar.

And switch from xrender to opengl and restart your System.

#12

It is perfect. Now openGL runs perfect. Thank you it runs perfect designing programs too. Thank you.:slight_smile:

#13

But:
You get often a Kernel-Update.

And no Kernel Packages from official openSUSE Repos or other “normal” Repos will work, such as virtualbox-kmp, broadcom-wl, nvidia-kmp and so on.

#14

It runs perfect now.

#15

Hallo I wanted to ask if this driver is ok for my laptop. I have downloaded from amd site. My controller is that

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M] (rev ff)

and the driver is that fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64_RHEL6_64a.rpm

I want to ask if it is ok for install on my laptop with this Graphics card. Because as i know the fglrx does not be supported by openSUSE 42.2.

Thank you for help.

#16

I doubt it will work. That driver is not compatible with newer kernels and AMD has stopped support. They have moved to AMDGPU and AMDGPU-PRO but those will not work with your older hardware

#17

Thanks for responce. So I need to wait for a driver for old platforms. Thanks for help.