[EN] ATI Radeon HD4850 (again)

[tuxic]

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

[tuxic]

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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.

[towo]

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

[tuxic]

Towo wrote:

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?

[Smon]

No, it is not possible

[timc]

@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.

[Smon]

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

[timc]

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

[Smon]

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