How do I install radeon driver? no mouse curser [Solved]

[kmathern]

MX-14 synaptic shows 10 pkgs under search for radeon.
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firmware-linux-nonfree, xserver-xorg-video-radeon, libdrm-radeon1, xserver-xorg-video-ati, fglrx-legacy-control,
fglrx-legacy-driver, fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms, libfglrx-legacy, libgl1-fglrx-legacy-glx, libglrx-legacy-amdxvba1
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(I installed 2 pkgs later myself) One is the AMD control panel, the other is libglrx-legacy-amdxvba1

It looks like you have a mix of packages installed. Some for the fglrx proprietary driver and others (those in bold text) for the Xorg opensource radeon driver. What does a 'inxi -Gxx' report show?

[Jon_J]

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:9498 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1280x1024@60.4hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A

thank you,
Jon

[kmathern]

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Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:9498 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1280x1024@60.4hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A

thank you,
Jon

I think the problem is the "GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A" items, though I'm not sure what you need to do (or install) to get them enabled.

You should get something other than N/A, with the nvidia proprietary driver I get

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kent@mepis1:~$ inxi -Gxx
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0322 
           X.Org: 1.14.5 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1600x900@50.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.39 Direct Rendering: Yes
kent@mepis1:~$ 

[Jon_J]

Do I need to uninstall the open source drivers?
In your post above are these the proprietary ones?
xserver-xorg-video-radeon, libdrm-radeon1, xserver-xorg-video-ati

[kmathern]

Do I need to unstall the open source drivers?
In your post above are these the proprietary ones?
xserver-xorg-video-radeon, libdrm-radeon1, xserver-xorg-video-ati

I would leave them installed for now because I'm not what else would be removed.


Is glx-alternative-fglrx installed? (it should be, it's a dependency for several of the fglrx packages)
Make sure it is, then as root run:

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update-alternatives --config glx

and make sure the fglrx alternative is being used.

Restart X if you needed to switch it to the fglrx alternative.

[Jon_J]

your'e right selecting to remove"xserver-xorg-video-radeon" wants to also remove xorg-video-all
So I didn't remove anything.

update-alternatives --config glx produces this:

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update-alternatives --config glx
There are 2 choices for the alternative glx (providing /usr/lib/glx).

  Selection    Path                    Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/fglrx           99        auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/fglrx           99        manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/mesa-diverted   5         manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

I don't know what to select, I could try each one separately.

[kmathern]

It looks like the alternative is set correctly.

You might try setting it to mesa-diverted and then back to fglrx and see if that does anything for you, restart X after that.

[Jon_J]

It looks like the alternative is set correctly.

You might try setting it to mesa-diverted and then back to fglrx and see if that does anything for you, restart X after that.

0 and 1 didn't change anything. I rebooted afterwards
2 - mesa-diverted (I rebooted) resulted in loading high resolution during boot process, but X didn't load. I got a "not any screens found" error.
It first appeared locked up. ctrl-alt-F1 got me back to the console. I could not startx though. I had to change back to selection 1 and reboot.
There were errors. I'll try to find the logs.
I looked through several logs in /var/log
Should I post my xorg.log, it's a large file.

[kmathern]

I'm looking at the changelog of the sid fglrx-legacy-driver package.

It mentions patches for a 3.10 kernel. It doesn't say anything about 3.11 or 3.12 kernels.

The sid version is 8.97.100.7-4, the wheezy-backports version is slightly older at 8.97.100.7-3~bpo70+1.

The problem might be that neither sid or the wheezy-backports fglrx-legacy-* packages support a 3.12 kernel.

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fglrx-legacy-driver (8.97.100.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add patches 07-change-create_proc-to-proc_create-for-kernel-3.10.X and
    08-add-linux-seq_file.h-for-kernel-3.10.X from Krzysztof Kolasa to restore
    compatibility with to Linux 3.10.  (Closes: #717556)

 -- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:01:30 +0200

fglrx-legacy-driver (8.97.100.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

[Jon_J]

Here's a snip of my Xorg.0.log starting with radeon and showing errors.
Can an updated driver be compiled like one would do in Debian with the firmware compiling tool?
I just found the name of the app in my terminal history. "module-assistant"

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Xorg.0.log-errors

[    17.138] (II) fglrx(0): Adapter ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series  has 2 configurable heads and 1 displays connected.
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0):  PseudoColor visuals disabled
[    17.138] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[    17.138] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[    17.138] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): NoDRI = NO
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x00000000
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000000
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=0
[    17.138] (==) fglrx(0): BlockSignalsOnLock=1
[    17.138] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[    17.139] (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. 
[    17.139] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
[    17.139] (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed                               *
[    17.139] (WW) fglrx(0): * kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompatible *
[    17.139] (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D and 3D acceleration disabled                         *
[    17.139] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
[    17.154] (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xf00000000 FBMappedSize: 0x10000000
[    17.163] (II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1600,8191)
[    17.163] (II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1600,1600) (front color buffer - assumption)
[    17.163] (II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1600 x 6591
[    17.164] (==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
[    17.164] (II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
[    17.164] (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
[    17.165] (II) fglrx(0): Initialized in-driver Xinerama extension
[    17.165] (WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled.
[    17.165] (II) LoadModule: "glesx"
[    17.165] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/glesx.so
[    17.287] (II) Module glesx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    17.287] 	compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 1.0.0
[    17.287] (II) Loading extension GLESX
[    17.287] (II) fglrx(0): GLESX enableFlags = 512
[    17.288] (II) LoadModule: "amdxmm"
[    17.288] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so
[    17.301] (II) Module amdxmm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    17.301] 	compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 2.0.0
[    17.301] (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.(EE) fglrx(0): 
[    17.301] (EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize
[    17.301] (WW) fglrx(0): No XV video playback available
[    17.301] (II) fglrx(0): Enable composite support successfully
[    17.301] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
[    17.301] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
[    17.301] (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
[    17.301] (==) fglrx(0): Using HW cursor of display infrastructure!
[    17.301] (II) fglrx(0): Disabling in-server RandR and enabling in-driver RandR 1.2.
[    17.302] (II) fglrx(0): Cannot get TV Format. Set all TV geometry value to zero!
[    17.302] (II) fglrx(0): Cannot set TV horizontal size.
[    17.302] (II) fglrx(0): Cannot get TV Format for trying to adjust horizontal position after horizontal size changed. 
[    17.302] (II) fglrx(0): Cannot set TV horizontal position.
[    17.302] (II) fglrx(0): Cannot set TV vertical position.
[    17.447] (--) RandR disabled
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension SYNC
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
[    17.447] (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
[    17.448] (II) SELinux: Disabled on system
[    17.450] [glesx] __glESXExtensionInit: No GL ES2.0 capable screen found!
[    17.471] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
[    17.471] (II) fglrx(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203
[    17.760] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event4)