Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Installing Suse 11.4 / Ubuntu 10.10 ATI Radeon HD6370 propriatary driver on hp dm4t

Well, I tried the Xorg (OSS) version of the driver (radeonhd) and looks like the support for this specific card is not available..

Hence, I tried installing the vendor driver the AMD ATI Catalyst for Linux.

well, before that, we have to uninstall radeonhd (SUSE : YAST->Software management) which is installed by default when the OS is installed..

now download this

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run

do the following

chmod +x /temp/ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run

sh ./temp/ati-driver-installer-11-2-x86.x86_64.run

choose auto discovery option then shutdown -r now

you should have the display driver installed and all the 3D effect you wanted.

I must say, the rendering performance is much slower than the radeonHD opensource version, but radeonHD driver has some driver load issues when booted without the nomodeset option due to the recent switch to DKMS route chosen by the Linux community...

As always, open source developers will find a way out for this.

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