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ATI / AMD HD 6850 in Arch Linux: You may

Those of us This new graphical ATI / AMD and use Linux, unfortunately we still have to go about doing stories have working drivers. In the official web still no drivers for the 6800 series.

I was to install Ubuntu 10.10 , but I had default drivers were the generic, which would not have any acceleration of any kind. I saw that I had the option of installing the proprietary and I did, but ... My surprise came when it no longer starts when you restart X.

eventually return to my other favorite Linux distro: Arch Linux . I tried to free drivers and nothing. So I decided to look in ArchWiki , and had documentation to install the ATI Catalyst appeared to be consistent with this graph though not officially.

In my case, I have the distribution x86_64 architecture and I had to add the following repositories to beginning of the file / etc / pacman.conf :

 [catalyst] = 
  Server  http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/x86_64 

saved and updated:

 # pacman-Syu 

and install the drivers:

 # pacman-S catalyst catalyst-utils 

Once done, we generated our xorg.conf file (as root):

 # Xorg-configure 

and copies it to the directory / etc/X11 :

 # cp ~ / xorg.conf.new / etc/X11/xorg.conf 

With this we have our configuration file, now just edit the Device section the xorg.conf with the text editor you like best:

 Section "Device" Identifier 
 "ATI Radeon 6850" 
 Driver "fglrx" EndSection 
 

also works with the HD 6870, that if we can change the identifier for "ATI Radeon 6870" and go.

Now we see that when we started the X, we see a watermark that says "AMD Unsupported hardware" . This can be removed by running the following script:

 # / bin / sh 
 DRIVER = / usr / lib / xorg / modules / drivers / fglrx_drv.so 
 for x in $ (objdump-d $ DRIVER  
 sed-i "s / $ x / \\ x90 \\ x90 \\ x90 \\ x90 \\ x90 / g" $ DRIVER 
 done 

If all went well, we will have our drivers and 3D acceleration Arch. The problem is that, in my case, KDE does not start with desktop effects enabled and must be done by hand. For now seems to be all right, I tested the game Nexuiz and works perfectly as possible.

Now we just expect them to take the proprietary drivers (and free) officially supported and avoid beating about stories, but for now this is what you get.

I hope you have been helpful.