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Help installing fglrx legacy.

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Cityscape
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Help installing fglrx legacy.

#1 Post by Cityscape »

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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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.

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there's not enough information here to start to guess as to what youve done so far

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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.

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millusions wrote:there's not enough information here to start to guess as to what youve done so far
I followed the Debian wiki for fglrx legacy 13.1 to the letter. I posted the link for that.

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.

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did the module compile successfully?

is module loaded?

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#5 Post by stevepusser »

Also, did the initrd file get rebuilt? That's required. It can be forced via

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su -c 'update-initramfs -u -t'
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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Re: Help installing fglrx legacy.

#6 Post by Cityscape »

millusions wrote:did the module compile successfully?

is module loaded?
Yes it installed successfuly. I'm not sure how to check if it's loaded.
stevepusser wrote:Also, did the initrd file get rebuilt? That's required. It can be forced via

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su -c 'update-initramfs -u -t'
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.
I ran that command (update-initramfs -u -t, it didn't allow the "-c" part) to update initrd.

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.

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