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Title: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: tuxic on 2014/02/27, 11:51:42

I have dual ATI Radeon HD 4850. Please let me know if the "fix" to the fglrx-legacy-driver open a new door for my cards in terms of proprietary drivers...

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oscar@solyd-sid:~$ apt-cache policy fglrx-legacy-driver
fglrx-legacy-driver:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 8.97.100.7-4+fix1
  Version table:
     8.97.100.7-4+fix1 0
        500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
     8.97.100.7-4 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
     8.97.100.3+1-2 0
        100 http://packages.siduction.org/experimental/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: tuxic on 2014/02/28, 09:59:10

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oscar@solyd-sid:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-legacy-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 fglrx-legacy-driver : Depends: xorg-video-abi-14 but it is not installable or
                                xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable or
                                xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
                                xorg-video-abi-10 but it is not installable or
                                xorg-video-abi-8 but it is not installable or
                                xorg-video-abi-6.0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: towo on 2014/02/28, 10:16:20

For a Radeon HD4xxx you don't need fglrx, radeon does work fine for this chipset.

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: tuxic on 2014/02/28, 10:24:47

Towo wrote:

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For a Radeon HD4xxx you don't need fglrx, radeon does work fine for this chipset.

Is it possible to use the Crossfire advantages with the free xorg-radeon?

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: Smon on 2014/03/04, 15:19:15

No, it is not possible

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: timc on 2014/03/04, 16:25:40

@tuxic - Arch Linux maintains a "legacy" version of the Catalyst driver for the older chipsets. I do not know how (or even if) Debian manages this.

Tim

PS - I did some Debian package searches. I see several packages in unstable with names containing fglrx and legacy. As I have never used them, I don't know anything else I can say about them.

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: Smon on 2014/03/04, 17:03:48

No, Arch Linux does NOT maintain such a package. There are several packages in the AUR, but the AUR is not Arch.

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: timc on 2014/03/04, 22:07:50

Quote from: Smon on 2014/03/04, 17:03:48

No, Arch Linux does NOT maintain such a package. There are several packages in the AUR, but the AUR is not Arch.

Hmmm... They used to. It's been over a year since I used Arch, much.

Anyway, we are talking about Debian, here.

Tim

Title: Re: ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)
Post by: Smon on 2014/03/04, 22:53:09

I am to lazy to scroll up, but i am pretty sure, you came up with that topic :p