Ati Mobility Radeon X2300 Driver

[Desmond Hutchins]

pleasehelp me . i updated my windows to win. 8 and my graphics changed to microsft basee adapter also, so i try to follow up the solution u brought out, bu the link u gave above to download the radeon graphics seemsto have expired so please can u help me renew the link thanks

Does anyone else know if it's possible to get the trackpad to do two finger scrolling? I think I remember doing something in the past to enable that through the synaptics trackpad driver but couldn't remember if it was this laptop or another old one.

Can't believe I've now had this laptop for over ten years and it's still going strong. Although almost every component has been swapped out by this point so not many original parts remain it still feels like the same machine!

I recently decided to scrap my windows partition for Ubuntu 13.04 when I found out steam is available for linux. I just cant seem to play any games on it because I can't find how to install the right graphics driver. I have an ATI Radeon mobility x2300. It is an HP compaq 6910p notebook.

I've been screwing around some more with all possible drivers, and in the end i now don't know what was my original etc etc. I've opened and edited all kinds of kext's, and now the whole MacOSX doesn't do a thing anymore.. lol

I installed iATKOS againa and checked some options with kernels and stuff just to experiment, but it didn't even load. So, before I give it yet another try (the 5th time), I want to be sure the x2300 is working with 1280 x 800 resolution... it didn't work for me even with the tutorials here and the .kext in this thread..

If no framebuffer is loaded, you won't be able to change the rez, that's all. Don't try to fix anything with X1000.kext cause there isn't anything to fix : the kext is working 100% fine and provides you QE/CI (OpenGL) and that's what it is for.

I'm not sure any of the ATY_ kexts are a good framebuffer for X2300 but you never know, it's worth trying (what does natit is recognize your card and run ATY_Lamna for example if you have a HD2600, etc.. so just edit natit & try)

@cyclonefr: good info man, now that we have the road we're going to cross it but are you sure of that? i'm continously reading some users post that change ALL "aty_*" strings to "display" to get it working...maybe we also have to do that? Someone can try it?

Ok, i tried a Natit for ATY, adding our id (718A) and get black screen and stuck there, but i could see booting with -v that recognices the graphic card as Ati radeon 1450 (this is ok) and tried to use ATY_Alopias.

Now we need to know how to tweak the plugin to make it work. Maybe the plugin is not ok for LCDs or something like this, or is not the correct Natit. I hope someone more enlighten than me can show the path....

Ok, i have try all methods i have find, harcoded every plugin, tried every ATIinject, but no results, i need someone to point me the last ATIinject for Leopard cause maybe i havent used the right one.

Indeed, they reveal the presence of the X2300 HD, codenamed 'M71'. The vanilla X2300 appears to be codenamed 'M64'. Both have 'M' and 'S' variants, indicated by an appropriate suffix to the codename. AMD's M71M chip, incidentally, has been approved for PCI Express compatibility by the PCI SIG, so its release can't be far off.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] [1002:6798]

Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] [1787:3001]

Kernel driver in use: radeon

Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

and put it in my /lib/firmware/amdgpu directory with the proper permissions. amdgpu now seems to be working, the output from lspci -knn lists amdgpu as the current driver and vulkaninfo list my gpu as gpu id 0, where it was previously lvvm.

Display drivers under Linux are a odd thing; needing to pull in lots of dependencies that can all be outdated and not usable with newer hardware, kind of one of the things windows does loads better unfortunately.

The problem is not Xorg, I enabled some old framebuffer drivers like 'radeonfb' and that one conflicts

with the 'radeon' driver dealing with DRI. Just blacklist the radeonfb module as mentioned in the forum

post above.

This is gonna be an ugly workaround. Basically, the packages dependencies are broken out-right. Wouldn't there be an easy way to rebuild the packages when icu was updated? Wayland session is busted, too, after the recent icu 71 update.

After I upgraded yesterday evening via pacman -Syu there was again no LightDM and X.

This morning I started the upgrade again and there is a X-Server again, but no terminal emulator was working - still getting the message "unicode_start skipped on /dev/pts/0.." (/dev/pts/0 exist). Since the installation of Xterm the emulators are working again, why ever. Fish is telling me "epiphany: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.70: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" after typing help, and for sure epiphany while starting also.

midori: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.70: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.70: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sqlitebrowser: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.70: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

cmake-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.70: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

3a8082e126