GPU not supported

[jatinderkaur]

I have hp laptop having AMD Radeon HD 6470 GPU and Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2330M CPU

I have installed fedora (3.3.2-6-fc16.x86_64) OS. But is is not detecting GPU in my system.

Anyone could help in this plz?

[Gareth Jones]

When you say it's not detecting the GPU, what do you mean? Does it give you any error messages? Do you have any graphics at all, or is it just using an un-accelerated fall-back driver or mode?

[jatinderkaur]

Yes I have.Windows is showing in Graphic Card in Display adapters.

Actually I have installed AMD APP SDK on fedora 16.It has detected only
one computing device i.e. intel i3 CPU and not showing GPU. It has prerequisite to install ATI
catalyst driver on fedora. But proprietary driver provided on AMD website is not working with fedora 16.

And yes I have installed fedora 16 in Basic Graphic Mode because otherwise it was not loading gnome and was showing black screen .

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

When you say it's not detecting the GPU, what do you mean? Does it give you any error messages? Do you have any graphics at all, or is it just using an un-accelerated fall-back driver or mode?

[george_toolan]

Enable rpmfusion repository then try

yum install kmod-catalyst

[jatinderkaur]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Enable rpmfusion repository then try

yum install kmod-catalyst

Thx.I am trying to enable rpm fusion.Eariler I was using proxy for updates. I have removed proxy setting made.But still get errors:

Retrieving http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

[jatinderkaur]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Enable rpmfusion repository then try

yum install kmod-catalyst

Yep I have followed the instruction give over here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Fed...from_RPMFusion

and have installed akmod-catalyst, xorg-x11-drv-catalyst and xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs

on my system. But after reboot system doesn't load GUI back. It is showing black screen with msgs:

Started Avahi ,DNS/DS-SDL -------------------------- [ok]

------------------------------------------------------------- [ok]


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Failed to start LSB: Build and install new kmods from akmod packages\See
Systemctl status akmods Service" for detail [failed]

Send mail.............................................. ......................... [OK]

[george_toolan]

I didn't say anything about akmod ;-)

[jatinderkaur]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

I didn't say anything about akmod ;-)

check out this link ------>

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Fed...from_RPMFusion

its not funny... i need to install catalyst driver properly.If anyone can help

[george_toolan]

Seriously. Read the error message you posted and try to make your own kmods if you don't believe me.

yum install kmod-catalyst

It doesn't get much easier than this and you won't need any akmods as long as rpmfusion keeps building kmods for each new kernel release.

Btw Catalyst 12.4 is available on rpmfusion now

yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing update kmod-catalyst

[Fenrin]

I agree akmod-catalyst is not as reliable as kmod-catalyst with the particular supported kernel version. Building the needed kernel module with akmod-catalyst fails sometimes.

But after reboot system doesn't load GUI back. It is showing black screen with msgs:...

you can probably boot into console mode, if you add 3 in the bootline of the grub menu entry for fedora. The line where it says "linux /boot/vmlinuz.... rhgb quiet" is the line where you should add 3
When the grub menu appears, select the Fedora entry, press e and add 3 at the end of the line. Then press the F10 key to boot.

[jatinderkaur]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Seriously. Read the error message you posted and try to make your own kmods if you don't believe me.

yum install kmod-catalyst

It doesn't get much easier than this and you won't need any akmods as long as rpmfusion keeps building kmods for each new kernel release.

Btw Catalyst 12.4 is available on rpmfusion now

yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing update kmod-catalyst

yup I have already removed akmod-catalyst and installed kmod-catalyst. But problem still persists. System is not loading GUI.

---------- Post added at 03:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:09 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Fenrin

I agree akmod-catalyst is not as reliable as kmod-catalyst with the particular supported kernel version. Building the needed kernel module with akmod-catalyst fails sometimes.



you can probably boot into console mode, if you add 3 in the bootline of the grub menu entry for fedora. The line where it says "linux /boot/vmlinuz.... rhgb quiet" is the line where you should add 3
When the grub menu appears, select the Fedora entry, press e and add 3 at the end of the line. Then press the F10 key to boot.

Ok I have tried it but didn't help.

This is parameters shown in grub:

linux /vmlinuz-3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv-rootro\
nomodeset rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=Volgroup/lv_swap KEYTABLE=US quie\
t SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sub rhgb rd.lvm.lv= Volgroup/lv_root rd.luks=0 L\
AND=enUS.UTF-8 radeon.modeset=0


I think dark red parameters can help.Any further suggestions?

[george_toolan]

Try to remove the quiet so you can see the error messages.

[jatinderkaur]

Originally Posted by george_toolan

Try to remove the quiet so you can see the error messages.

i have removed quiet. But same black screen with same msgs i have already posted appears. I have also tried removing nomodeset. This resulted in black screen for infinite time.