No recommanded driver for [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series] [1002:6840]

Bug #1390338 reported by Yung Shen
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
HWE Next
Won't Fix
Medium
Alberto Milone
jockey (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Alberto Milone

Bug Description

This is a system with APU and ATI graphic chip, APU works fine without extra driver.

But Jockey does show any drivers for ATI graphic chip, so users are not able to use jockey install driver for this graphic chip.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: jockey-common 0.9.7-0ubuntu7.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.68~precise1-generic 3.13.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 6 07:55:40 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140807.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-40-generic root=UUID=2b2e3844-604a-4074-9bbb-9a9e76412c6e ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/17/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde
dmi.bios.version: F.21
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 184C
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 57.34
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:bvrF.21:bd10/17/2012:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliong7NotebookPC:pvr089D110000005010000020100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn184C:rvr57.34:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 089D110000005010000020100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Yung Shen (kaxing) wrote :
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Yung Shen (kaxing) wrote :

Did a brief verification with fglrx installed using apt-get, in generall suspend and hibernate looks fine on the same system.

Daniel Manrique (roadmr)
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Ara Pulido (ara)
tags: added: blocks-hwcert
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Anthony Wong (anthonywong) wrote :

@Yung Shen
What are the issues you have when only the open source driver is used?

Changed in hwe-next:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Anthony Wong (anthonywong) wrote :

Ignore the above comment, I found the issue when using radeon is S3 related: bug 1409616.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Changed in hwe-next:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
Revision history for this message
Anthony Wong (anthonywong) wrote :

Alberto, can you check why the proprietary driver is not recommended?

Changed in hwe-next:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in hwe-next:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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