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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #1058040
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1058040

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Jonathon Fernyhough (jfernyhough) wrote : fglrx-installer does not support HD2000-4000 "legacy" cards

Following the AMD decision to drop support for older hardware fglrx-installer will install non-working drivers for some users.

I suggest the addition of an fglrx-legacy package to install the AMD legacy drivers for users with older cards.

Output for fglrx 9.00 [1]:
# lspci|grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780L [Radeon HD 3000]
# modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/3.5.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): No such device
# dmesg|tail -n3
[ 6785.693869] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 7132 MBytes.
[ 6785.694089] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* No supported display adapters were found
[ 6785.694091] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed
# dpkg --list|grep fglrx
ii fglrx 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-updates/+bug/1032672/comments/34