Bug 10311

Summary:	fglrx driver doesn't work. No screens found
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	jb butet <ashashiwa>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	micheelsen
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest	CVE:
Status comment:

Description jb butet 2013-05-27 10:48:58 CEST

Description of problem:
fglrx instllation works but hangs out : 
No screens founds.

Card : 
lspcidrake -v | grep -i vga
Card:ATI Radeon HD 6400 and later (radeon/fglrx): Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI|Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:6758 subv:174b subd:e194)

forum : http://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-15352.php


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest with kernel = 3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3

How reproducible:
reboot


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install fglrx
2.reboot

A way to avoid it : 
-> use free driver
-> use amd driver : 

urpme fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
unzip amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
chmod a+x amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run
sh amd-catalyst-13.4-linux-x86.x86_64.run --force

May be just a update should resolve issue.




Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

jb butet 2013-05-27 10:49:46 CEST

Source RPM: (none) => urpme fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest

jb butet 2013-05-27 10:49:52 CEST

Source RPM: urpme fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest => fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest

Hans Micheelsen 2013-06-17 21:26:21 CEST

CC: (none) => micheelsen

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:02 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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The Mageia Bugsquad

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD