6

F12 64-bit and ATI Catalyst 9.12 - Need advice on how to downgrade to XOrg 7.4

view full story
linux-howto

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hiya all, I've recently installed a Radeon HD 5770 graphics card, but it currently doesn't have support from any open source drivers (including MESA's experimental DRI drivers). The only other option would be ATI's Catalyst drivers, but 9.12 doesn't support Xorg 7.5 at the moment (the drivers disable Xorg; leaving a terminal only setup). The question I've got is that is it possible to downgrade Xorg to 7.4 as a temp workaround and if so, how easy would it be to revert back to 7.5 afterwards. (HowTos)

jiqi2's picture
Submitted by jiqi2 on 01/27/2010 – Made popular on 01/27/2010

Stories similar to F12 64-bit and ATI Catalyst 9.12 - Need advice on how to downgrade to XOrg 7.4

AMD has released a new Catalyst 12.10 driver for Linux. I was hoping that with with catalyst 12.10, legacy drivers (version 12.6) will be updated to support xorg 1.13 (required for Ubuntu 12.10).

However, this release seems to be a complete joke.

Latest proprietary AMD Catalyst driver version 12.9 cannot be used with Ubuntu 12.10 If you have a AMD Radeon HD 2xxx-4xxx series card. Drivers for these cards are now available in a separate branch called legacy series. Unfortunately these legacy drivers (version 12.6) have not been updated to work with Ubuntu 12.10.

AMD has recently dropped support for cards in series HD 2xxx-4xxx. Catalyst drivers for these cards are now available in a different branch, called Legacy series. Legacy drivers won't receive any new feature updates from AMD.

Proprietary fglrx drivers for these legacy cards are not compatible with Quantal.

Latest proprietary AMD Catalyst driver version 12.9 cannot be used with Ubuntu 12.10 If you have a AMD Radeon HD 2xxx-4xxx series card.

Drivers for these cards are now available in a separate branch called legacy series. Unfortunately these legacy drivers (version 12.6) have not been updated to work with Ubuntu 12.10.

So here's the problem. I have a rather old laptop, bought it in 2007. It's an Acer Aspire 5100-5023 if that means anything to anyone. It has an integrated graphics card, ATI Radeon Xpress 1100. ATI (I guess AMD now) no longer provides legacy support for this card.

Now I have Ubuntu 12.10. It has xorg 1.13. Unity wont run correctly with out that version of xorg.

When I've upgraded to xorg-server-1.13.1 keyboard stopped functioning. I then downgrade to xorg-server-1.12.4 and xorg-drivers-1.12 and it works now.

What's the problem?

UPDATE 1 My USE flags for both xorg-server and xorg-drivers below:

archer@capitan ~ $ equery u xorg-server [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set,

My laptop HP Probook 4530s with hybrid graphic.

When I installed amd video drivers from rpm fusion repository by command: yum install akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs

After reboot, windows manager not start up and freeze at boot. Pastebin Xorg.0 log file.

http://pastebin.com/X0sc52b6

Video support in UEFI mode 19 weeks 3 days ago

Unfortunately, I did not save the Xorg.0.log of fglrx. So I only wrote what I remember because I had to reinstall the xf86-video-ati drivers to have X working.I have only one problem with Radeon/KMS/Xorg drivers in EFI and BIOS modes. When I go in full screen mode (Ctrl_Alt+f) with qemu(-kvm), I get a white/black screen flicking. I have to Control-Backspace-Delete and go back to console.

Catalyst-legacy 45 weeks 5 days ago

You might have read that catalyst was removing support for any HD4xxx card or below.  With support for xorg 1.12 coming in catalyst 12.6, the plan for Chakra was to finally update xorg, and drop support for these cards.Today though, it was announced, there is a first beta release for catalyst-legacy.  It is packaged right away, to see how well it functions, so the move to xorg 1.12 can s