topic title: Antix 12 Radeon X200 freeze
Posts: 9
slapshot
Joined: 22 Jan 2013
#1
Hi all, I'm having some issues with freeze. I think there is some problem with my old graphic card that's freezing very often my system.

I had this kind of problem as soon as I installed Antix because cannot view slim and I start my windows manager switching to a console.
But recently this freezes happen very often.

How can:

1. try to use simple and standard VGA drivers
2. using proprietary ATi drivers can solve this problem ?

Thank you
Antonio
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
Try smxi to install proprietary ATi drivers.

Or this post might help.

radeon-opengl-not-working-t4154.html

or this one:

radeon-xpress-200m-t3528.html
Posts: 9
slapshot
Joined: 22 Jan 2013
#3
Thank you for your suggest, anticapitalista ! Very interesting script smxi, I will have to look at it carefully.

What about installing fglrx with Synaptic such as I did before reading your answer ? My old pc seems to work well now without freeze anymore.

Antonio
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fenrin
Joined: 10 Feb 2013
#4
this old card is not supported with the AMD proprietary driver anymore.

I have a Radeon HD 4650 and tested my system with antiX 13 beta. I had to add noxorg to the boot parameters, otherwise after boot it resulted in a black screen. If noxorg doesn't help in your case you could try nomodeset in your boot parameters instead.

For OpenGL support with your Radeon card you should install the following:
apt-get install glx-alternative-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2-mesa
(libgles2-mesa is maybe optional, not sure)
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slapshot
Joined: 22 Jan 2013
#5
fenrin wrote:this old card is not supported with the AMD proprietary driver anymore.

I have a Radeon HD 4650 and tested my system with antiX 13 beta. I had to add noxorg to the boot parameters, otherwise after boot it resulted in a black screen. If noxorg doesn't help in your case you could try nomodeset in your boot parameters instead.

For OpenGL support with your Radeon card you should install the following:
apt-get install glx-alternative-mesa libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2-mesa
(libgles2-mesa is maybe optional, not sure)
Well, I installed proprietary ATI driver via apt-get and it seems I don't have the problem anymore.
sudo lshw -c video shoe me this now:

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*-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
       vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: agp agp-3.0 pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:17 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdef0000-fdefffff memory:fde00000-fde1ffff
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lucky9
Joined: 13 Jul 2008
#6
The driver you are using is radeon. driver=radeon
That is not an ATi video driver. That is the open source version.
Posts: 9
slapshot
Joined: 22 Jan 2013
#7
lucky9 wrote:The driver you are using is radeon. driver=radeon
That is not an ATi video driver. That is the open source version.
Well, that's exactly the same I had before than. So I cannot understand why freezing is stopped now after I installed ati proprietary drivers :O
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#8

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~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
No freezes here. __{{emoticon}}__

@fenrin

This is that Motorcycle shop Desktop I mentioned that I could not get to at the time in your radeon thread.

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$ inxi -F -z
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 2.6.38-7.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Distro: antiX-M11-base- Jayaben Desai 25 April 2011
Machine:   System: GATEWAY product: W3507 version: 500
           Mobo: Intel model: D102GGC2 version: AAD70214-201
           Bios: Intel version: GC11020M.15A.2010.2006.0817.0956 date: 08/17/2006
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron D CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 3200.549 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5
Audio:     Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter driver: rtl8187 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST3120213A size: 120.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 109G used: 19G (19%) fs: ext3 ID: swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.4C mobo: 51.7C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2837 fan-2: 1505 fan-4: 0 
Info:      Processes: 84 Uptime: 3:42 Memory: 282.0/880.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.8.37