Catalyst woes [FirePro 2270]

[entropy]

I got a new Dell machine at work today which comes with an AMD FirePro 2270 (512 MB version).

After installation of Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 the fglrx kernel module loads properly
but I'm ending up with this message using aticonfig:

"aticonfig: No supported adapters detected"

Any ideas?

Don't tell me this card has already phased out to "legacy"... :/

[gradinaruvasile]

Umm. The firepro series have other drivers.
Just go to the amd driver site

step 1 -> Workstation Graphics
step 2 -> FirePro Performance Pre-WHQL Driver
step 3 -> FirePro 2270
step 4 -> whatever Linux architecture you have

etc. Not that hard.

PS why did you get a workstation graphics card? Those tend to be more expensive and slower than the consumer cards.

[entropy]

Umm. The firepro series have other drivers.
Just go to the amd driver site

step 1 -> Workstation Graphics
step 2 -> FirePro Performance Pre-WHQL Driver
step 3 -> FirePro 2270
step 4 -> whatever Linux architecture you have

etc. Not that hard.

PS why did you get a workstation graphics card? Those tend to be more expensive and slower than the consumer cards.

Thank you. I thought I could just go with Catalyst...

At work, we can only choose between a small selection of preconfigured Dell offers
which change from time to time. So I ended up with this configuration (blindly) [Dell Precision T6300]. Actually, it should come with a Nvidia Quadro card.
Apparently, the old offer was not available any longer and so they "upgraded" it.

I just found a package in the AUR repositories including kernel patches.
Let's see. I have a very bad feeling right now...

[entropy]

Oh great, no xorg-server 1.13 support.

Isn't there a way to run the standard Catalyst on those ASICs?
I think I can do without the additional FireXXX features.

[gradinaruvasile]

There is a newer looking driver:

step 1 -> Workstation Graphics
step 2 -> FirePro Multiview series
step 3 -> FirePro 2270
step 4 -> whatever Linux architecture you have

Maybe...

[entropy]

There is a newer looking driver:

step 1 -> Workstation Graphics
step 2 -> FirePro Multiview series
step 3 -> FirePro 2270
step 4 -> whatever Linux architecture you have

Maybe...

Unfortunately, this driver from late December does definitely not support xserver 1.13.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst-firepro/

[gradinaruvasile]

Does the fglrx driver install and run?

If you get the "unsupported hardware" logo, you could try this:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...ware-watermark

Aticonfig may not work correctly here and there for certain hardware, i got mine saying that my A8-5500's GPU runs at -14 C...
What is important is if you have working opengl and stuff.

[entropy]

Does the fglrx driver install and run?

If you get the "unsupported hardware" logo, you could try this:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...ware-watermark

Aticonfig may not work correctly here and there for certain hardware, i got mine saying that my A8-5500's GPU runs at -14 C...
What is important is if you have working opengl and stuff.

Thank you!

Catalyst 13.2 beta works fine.
Only aticonfig refuses to work.
Why is beyond me.

[PeniWize]

See: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...talyst.2Ffglrx

[entropy]

See: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...talyst.2Ffglrx

Thanks!

But does this page contain something helpful for my case?
If so, I fail to see it.