Fedora 14 ATI Catalyst and Radeon HD 6550m

[evilbastard]

I am trying to get the Proprietary Catalyst drivers configured under Fedora 14 for an ATI Radeon 6550HD. When I check the Catalyst Control Center, it's only noticing the "Onboard" graphics chip, which is disabled in the Windows Catalyst Control Center.

Under Windows the primary adapter is listed as:

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6550 1 gig ram

And Disabled adapter is listed as:

ATI Mobility M880G Radeon 4250

I checked the system bios and there is no way to disable the onboard graphics card.

Is there a way I can get this card working under Linux?

---------- Post added at 09:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:02 PM ----------

I should have added that this is on an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop

[/COLOR]Crap thought I had posted a reply. Should have mentioned that this is on a HP Pavilion dv6 laptop. I did some googling and decided to try and modify my xorg.conf file (original below)

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "HDMI" "all"
Option "Audio" "on"
Option "TVFormat" "NTSC-N"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
Option "TwinView" "1"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


using lspci | grep -i vga I get the following:

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD 5600 Series] (rev ff)

So I figured I would modify the BusID to "PCI:2:0:0"

But when I startx it crashes and returns to prompt. The following are the relevant sections from the Xorg.0.log file:


440.311] (==) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
[ 440.311] (==) fglrx(0): ATI 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
[ 440.311] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 6500M/5600/5700 Series" (Chipset = 0x68c1)
[ 440.311] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x103c, PciSubDevice = 0x1640)
[ 440.311] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT original ATI

(I thing the above line is the problem, not a proprietary ASTI card)

[ 440.311] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xe0000000
[ 440.312] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xf0200000
[ 440.312] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00003000
[ 440.312] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
[ 440.320] (II) fglrx(0): ATIF platform detected
[ 440.324] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
[ 440.333] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not VGA-enabled
[ 440.333] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature!
[ 440.333] (EE) fglrx(0): GetBIOSParameter failed
[ 440.333] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter failed
[ 440.333] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
[ 440.333] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_x760_atiddxPreInit] === end
[ 440.339] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
[ 440.339] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[ 440.339] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[ 440.339] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 440.339]
Fatal server error:
[ 440.339] no screens found

So I am thinking since this is not a stock ATI card, the Catalyst driver isn't recognizing the Redwood card. Is there anyway I can get the Catalyst driver to work with the Redwood card?

[fred_m]

How do you get your catalyst control center to work ? I have no success and I'm running my fedora with vesa driver.

My lspci | grep -i vga returns:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series]

Do you know how can I choose intel controller instead ATI ?

Fred

[evilbastard]

I have the same issue as you, Fedora sees the HD adapter, but won't use it. I downloaded the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI website and was able to install it no problem.

If you find a solution to your issue, I am sure I can use the same procedure for me.

[evilbastard]

Did some more googling, and found something about vgaswitcheroo, which is enabled in my kernel by default. But if I install the ATI Proprietary drivers, the vgaswitcheroo module disappears from /sys/kernel/debug. Might have to experiment with another distro to see if I can get any further.

[drakkan]

Sorry if it seems I am resurrecting this thread, but I just installed Fedora 15 and have this card, the Radeon 6550m in my laptop. How can I tell if it is installed correctly and working with full capabilities?