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Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:53 am**

I installed MX-14-beta2 onto my desktop computer, specs below.
How do I install radeon driver?
It has a Visiontek radeon HD 4650 graphics card.
VGA compatible controller ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
Trying to navigate with only the keyboard and invisible mouse cursor, I managed to break the pkg manager in synaptic.
I tried to install "fglrx-legacy-driver" and the icon turned red.
I updated synaptic and I still could not get the driver to install.
I then tried to open "Settings" -> "Repositories" but I get an error to fix broken pkgs.
Then I went to "Edit" -> "Fix Broken Packges" but this didn't solve my problem with getting the driver.
Doing this without a mouse cursor is frustrating.

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Computer
Processor	2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
Memory	3372MB (114MB used)
Operating System	Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7
Date/Time	Mon 03 Feb 2014 03:22:09 PM CST

Display
Resolution	1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer	Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9498) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2
X11 Vendor	The X.Org Foundation
Version	1.7.7
Monitor 0	1280x1024 pixels

Multimedia
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Audio Adapter	HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI

Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard	
Logitech USB Optical Mouse		

PCI Devices
Host bridge	Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
PCI bridge	Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port
Audio device	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
PCI bridge	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
PCI bridge	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2
USB Controller	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
USB Controller	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
USB Controller	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
USB Controller	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
USB Controller	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
PCI bridge	Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge
ISA bridge	Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR
IDE interface	Intel Corporation 82801G
IDE interface	Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller
SMBus	Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
VGA compatible controller	ATI Technologies Inc RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
Audio device	ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
Ethernet controller	Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
Multimedia video controller	Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder

Storage
SCSI Disks
ATAPI iHAP122 8	
JLMS XJ-HD166S	
ATA WDC WD1600AAJS-0	
ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0	

BIOS
Date	03/18/2010
Vendor	Intel Corp. (www.intel.com)
Version	PRG3110H.86A.0071.2010.0318.1704
Board 	DG31PR
Vendor	Intel Corporation (www.intel.com)

SCSI Disks
ATAPI iHAP122 8	
JLMS XJ-HD166S	
ATA WDC WD1600AAJS-0	
ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:08 am**

You could try using the sgfxi script.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:13 am**

You might also try temporarily changing Synaptic's preferred distro setting to 'wheezy-backports'. That will keep you using the Debian packages.

edit: then I think you need to install the fglrx-legacy-driver & fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms packages.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:27 pm**

sgfxi script says older radeon no longer supported.
I'll try the pkgs suggested by kmathern
fglrx-legacy-driver & fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms
I'll need to reinstall MX-14-b2 because the pkg manager refuses to work since I broke it the first time.
I cannot change Synaptic's preferred distro setting to 'wheezy-backports' because it gives error about broken pkgs and won't let me access that setting.

Jon

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:34 pm**

Jon_J wrote:...I cannot change Synaptic's preferred distro setting to 'wheezy-backports' because it gives error about broken pkgs and won't let me access that setting....

You can also try it from the command line

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su -c 'apt-get install fglrx-legacy-driver/wheezy-backports fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms/wheezy-backports -t wheezy-backports -s'

It's a simulation, remove the "-s" if it looks like it will work.

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:16 pm**

You can also use a cheatcode to get the open software radeon driver to be used. IE: at the GRUB boot screen type xdrvr=radeon confx (and hit the Enter key). That or xdrvr=vesa confx should almost always give you a usable GUI.

See: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Cheatcodes

Posted: **Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:07 pm**

kmathern wrote:
Jon_J wrote:...I cannot change Synaptic's preferred distro setting to 'wheezy-backports' because it gives error about broken pkgs and won't let me access that setting....
You can also try it from the command line
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su -c 'apt-get install fglrx-legacy-driver/wheezy-backports fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms/wheezy-backports -t wheezy-backports -s'
It's a simulation, remove the "-s" if it looks like it will work.

Thank you very much. That worked! All I had to do afterwards is set refresh rate and resolution.
Mouse cursor is also working fine now.

Thank you lucky9 for the suggestion. I already tried the above suggestion and it worked before I got back to this thread.

Jon

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:38 am**

I hope nobody minds if I bring up this topic again, and the above actions got me to my desktop in MX-14 beta2.
I don't think I have the driver configured correctly.
When dragging a window on the desktop, it stutters, (or studders?)
When scrolling any window or text document it is very slow and stutters.

I looked in my Debian install, which I did 4 years ago and the radeon drivers work really nicely, and I failed to document what I did.
I think I installed these in Debian and it just worked with no tweaking.

There are 4 differences between my Debian install and MX-14 with regard to radeon.

1. When booting Debian, the screen switches to high resolution driver a couple seconds after selecting in Grub screen.
2. There are none of the problems I mentioned above in Debian. windows scroll normally,
(as fast as mouse pointer) and dragging windows are as fast as mouse pointer.
3. In Debian there is no / etc/X11/xorg.conf
4. Comparing these 2 installations, Debian synaptic only has 5 radeon packages shown under search for "radeon"
==============================================================================
firmware-linux-nonfree, xserver-xorg-video-radeon, radeontool, libdrm-radeon1, xserver-xorg-video-ati
==============================================================================

MX-14 synaptic shows 10 pkgs under search for radeon.
==============================================================================
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
==============================================================================
(I installed 2 pkgs later myself) One is the AMD control panel, the other is libglrx-legacy-amdxvba1
(I couldn't play "ts" videos, and this enabled playback, although not very well)
Below are 2 screenshots. The first one showing radeon search in Debian, the second one shows radeon search in MX-14

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:46 am**

I think the big difference might be in the version of Debian. 4 years ago would have been Squeeze.
MX-14 is Wheezy.

You can't compare them.

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:49 am**

anticapitalista wrote:I think the big difference might be in the version of Debian. 4 years ago would have been Squeeze.
MX-14 is Wheezy.

How do I get proper performance with my radeon HD 4650 on MX-14? It isn't very usable in its current state on my desktop machine.

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