So I have a Radeon HD 4000 series card in my laptop running Debian Wheezy. So I installed the legacy driver and followed the instructions as documented here: https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary# ... egacy_13.1
I rebooted and I just got a blackscreen, the login manager never showed up. So deleted the config fil, rebooted and ran "aticonfig --initial." I rebooted and got the same black screen.
Any idea on how to get the fglrx driver working?
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Help installing fglrx legacy.
- millusions
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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.
there's not enough information here to start to guess as to what youve done so far
Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.
I followed the Debian wiki for fglrx legacy 13.1 to the letter. I posted the link for that.millusions wrote:there's not enough information here to start to guess as to what youve done so far
After that didn't work I ran "aticonfig --initial" which is what AMD recommends. I didn't do anything else.
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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.
Also, did the initrd file get rebuilt? That's required. It can be forced via
Did the --config command create the xorg.conf fragment file in the subdirectory as per the wiki?
You may also experiment with adding nomodeset to the GRUB kernel boot command line.
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su -c 'update-initramfs -u -t'
You may also experiment with adding nomodeset to the GRUB kernel boot command line.
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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.
Yes it installed successfuly. I'm not sure how to check if it's loaded.millusions wrote:did the module compile successfully?
is module loaded?
I ran that command (update-initramfs -u -t, it didn't allow the "-c" part) to update initrd.stevepusser wrote:Also, did the initrd file get rebuilt? That's required. It can be forced via
Did the --config command create the xorg.conf fragment file in the subdirectory as per the wiki?Code: Select all
su -c 'update-initramfs -u -t'
You may also experiment with adding nomodeset to the GRUB kernel boot command line.
I didn't run a --config command. But when I ran aticonfig it created a new xorg.conf file in /etc/X11.
I also created a 20-fglrx.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (as per this wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary#Configuration)
I also tried "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset"" in /etc/default/grub. And it's still not working.