Drivers for Radeon HD 4290 don't work

**crazyfuturamanoob** · June 6th, 2010

Edit: You shouldn't read this thread because the problem is solved already.

I just built a new PC and installed Kubuntu 10.04 from the Alternate CD.

Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
Integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

I downloaded the proprietary ATI driver installer from here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...6&lang=English

I ran these commands:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge fglrx*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
cd Downloads/
chmod +x ati-driver-installer-10-5-x86.x86_64.run
sudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-10-5-x86.x86_64.run
sudo aticonfig --initial
sudo reboot now

After booting up, X wouldn't start. I ran some more commands:

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|less
sudo cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Documents/Xorg.0.log.atiDriver
cd /etc/X11/
sudo mv xorg.conf _xorg.conf
startx

Now I'm running X server without the ATI driver, and writing this message.

I uploaded _xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.atiDriver as attachments (renamed them because this stupid forum does not allow uploading other text files than .txt)

Code:

arho@tehomylly:~/Documents/upload$ cat Xorg.0.log.txt |grep '(EE)'
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) fglrx(0): Hasn't established DRM connection
(EE) fglrx(0): Hasn't established DRM connection
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. 
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed to map FB memory
(EE) fglrx(0): firegl_SetSuspendResumeState FAILED -9.

Code:

arho@tehomylly:~/Documents/upload$ cat Xorg.0.log.txt |grep '(WW)'
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:17:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:2) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:2) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:2) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:3) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:4) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:5) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:21:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:22:0) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:22:2) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:5:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Hasn't establisted DRM connection
(WW) fglrx(0): No DRM connection for driver fglrx.
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed!                  *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)             *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available                *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

I tried googling but didn't find anything helpful. How can I get the driver working?

**crazyfuturamanoob** · June 6th, 2010

I just found out that driver 10.5 does not support my HD 4290.

Version 9.3 supports HD 4290 but only supports Ubuntu 9.04 (and older).

(I have Kubuntu 10.04 installed on this machine)

Edit:
Here's ATI/AMD website for drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
The driver in Linux x86_64->Integrated/Motherboard->Radeon HD 4290 is 10.5 which does not support this video card! WTF?

How to get hardware acceleration to work?

Edit2:
I messed with hardware drivers until my system was completely unbootable and unusable. Then I reinstalled Kubuntu, and 3D acceleration just started magically working.

**daasdingo** · June 15th, 2010

just for the information,
i have nearly the exact same hardware(Gigabyte instead of ASUS board, but same chipset).

The 10.5 driver from the AMD website DOES work for me.

Code:

~$ fglrxinfo 
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 4290
OpenGL version string: 3.3.9836 Compatibility Profile Context

from gui:
Catalyst™ Version 10.5