On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:39:19 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk allegedly wrote:
mick mbm@rlogin.net allegedly wrote:
And of course I should ask whether you have tried the OSS radeon driver before using the proprietary fglrx driver. Given that you seem to have a card which is fairly old, that driver may support it. I don't know that, but maybe someone else on the list has an old HD card and can give advice.
I haven't tried it, no.
I'd be happy to try anything that works ;-)
I've just checked the apt repository for the "xserver-xorg-video-radeon" driver and it says:
"This package provides the 'radeon' driver for the AMD/ATI cards. The following chips should be supported: R100, RV100, RS100, RV200, RS200, RS250, R200, RV250, RV280, RS300, RS350, RS400/RS480, R300, R350, R360, RV350, RV360, RV370, RV380, RV410, R420, R423/R430, R480/R481, RV505/RV515/RV516/RV550, R520, RV530/RV560, RV570/R580, RS600/RS690/RS740, R600, RV610/RV630, RV620/RV635, RV670, RS780/RS880, RV710/RV730, RV740/RV770/RV790, CEDAR, REDWOOD, JUNIPER, CYPRESS, HEMLOCK, PALM, SUMO/SUMO2, BARTS, TURKS, CAICOS, CAYMAN, ARUBA."
So if your HD4670 uses one of those chipsets (it may be the RV730) it looks like you are good to go by simply installing that driver from your (RPM) repo. It may not give you 3D acceleration, but at least you should get a working system again.
I'd suggest that you try that before going further down the fglrx compilation rabbit hole.
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