Debian Lenny ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati proprietary drivers

[afde]

Hello everybody
I'm new to this forum so I apologize if I miss something important...
I have a Debian Lenny installed on P4 2.6 GHZ 512 Mb RAM and now
I have bought an ATI HD 3450 AGP and 'lspci' tells me:
"01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE AGP [Radeon HD 3450]"
Now I have it working with the radeonhd 1.2.4 driver and mesa libs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to support 3D acceleration...
from Xorg.log:
I had to install the latest 1.2.4 version because of my card chipset ID, which
wasn't recognized as an RV620 card with previous versions (i.e. 1.2.1)
from Xorg.log:
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1002,95c6 card 1043,0028 rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 80
It seems clear that at the moment there is no alternative: I have to use proprietary drivers but
with ATI CAtalyst driver from debian distribution and with the one from AMD site
(https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run)
as well after making xorg.conf with aticonfg and start Gnome Desktop Environment and everything seems to be fine but when I try to execute glx utils (i.e. glxgears) or try to watch a videofile the xserver freezes and my keyboard doesn't respond and all I have left is to push reset button.
If anyone has any idea or solution please post!

Thank you

[Saist]

The packaging scripts for Catalyst drivers 9.1 and 9.2 seem to be broken on Debian Lenny, and as of 9.2, Debian Etch as well.

The quick fix we found for Mepis 8 is to use the SGFXI script from SMXI with the force command.

Installation and configuration on Debian Pure should be identical to Mepis 8.

1 : start from ground zero. You want all of the previous driver information and install files to be gone, and you want to be on the VESA driver. If you have to, reinstall while keeping your /home directory.

2 : open up your terminal and switch to root

3 : copy this command into the terminal : cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && unzip smxi.zip

you should get a download and unzip message.

4 : enter the command : telinit 3

This should kill X and put you at the command prompt.

5 : login as root

If you haven't done it since you installed, now is a good time to do an apt-get update

6 : type the command : sgfxi -f

7 : hit enter at all the prompts.


When you finish, reboot or start X, and the driver should be loaded properly.

[storma]

4 : enter the command : telinit 3

This should kill X and put you at the command prompt.

5 : login as root

The default runlevel of Debian is 2. 3 will still have a gui enabled.

From root if you issue the command "/etc/init.d/gdm stop", that will kill X for you.

[Kano]

Or:

Reset xorg.conf to a well known state:

rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Then execute my script - will kill X and start X automatically:

http://kanotix.com/files/install-fglrx-debian.sh

If the driver is working with your card, then my script will work. As side effect it also enables dkms which is usefull when a new kernel is installed.

[Saist]

(wishes Phoronix had a thanks button for posts like Kano's)