And the Open Source x.org radeon driver still overheats, especially on laptops. This has been a problem for at least 4 years that I'm aware of, and not getting perceptibly any better.
My 5+ year old Tosh laptop (RS780 graphics aka Radeon 3100 found in the AMD 780V chipset) was fine with the fglrx driver and I was able to force the 2.8x version until I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04. You can no longer downgrade back to an old copy of 12.04 and force the old version even though it's in the repositories unless you still have your first .iso download with the very oldest 3.2 kernel. Any version of 12.04 I can see to download now with the oldest 3.2 kernel I can find won't install the 2.8x driver, apparently because there's no kernel support for the older drivers (fails sanity check). Somehow the problem has been compounded within the OS community after AMD forked their support for so-called legacy GPUs and the Radeon 5xxx GPUs and newer. I started using Linux 12 or so years ago because it would run on older hardware after MS or Apple discontinued OS support for a given configuration. It looks like Canonical is getting more and more like Apple and Microsoft. Now if your hardware is over 5 years old, you're treated like some sort of Luddite. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058040 Title: fglrx-installer not working with AMD Radeon/Mobility Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards in Quantal+ Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Following the AMD decision to change to a new driver support model for Radeon™ HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 series cards for the legacy 12.6 driver as per http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/legacy-radeon_linux.aspx , fglrx-installer installs non-working drivers for users of the cards: AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series AMD Radeon HD 3000 Series AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series AMD Radeon HD Series AGP AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 2000 Series I suggest the addition of an fglrx-legacy package to install the AMD legacy drivers for users with older cards or patch the current code base for use with these cards. One of the outstanding issues for addressing this bug is AMD currently does not plan to support XServer 1.13 (for Ubuntu the package is xserver-xorg-core) for the legacy 12.6 driver, which Quantal uses: apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-core: Installed: 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Output for fglrx 9.00 [1]: # lspci|grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780L [Radeon HD 3000] # modprobe fglrx FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/3.5.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): No such device # dmesg|tail -n3 [ 6785.693869] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 7132 MBytes. [ 6785.694089] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* No supported display adapters were found [ 6785.694091] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed # dpkg --list|grep fglrx ii fglrx 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:9.000-0ubuntu1 amd64 Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics accelerators [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer- updates/+bug/1032672/comments/34 !!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!! The following workaround has produced mixed results and left some users with temporarily broken systems. It is not recommended for production systems or novice users that are not comfortable with basic console/non-GUI recovery. USE AT OWN RISK. WORKAROUND: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:makson96/fglrx && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install fglrx-legacy This workaround will downgrade X to 1.12 and install the AMD legacy fglrx 8.97 (Catalyst 12.6). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1058040/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
