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boomclart

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 77

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Seemingly sorted after installing 3.2...bpo

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "DesktopSetup" "clone"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Last edited by boomclart (2012-04-13 00:26:32)

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boomclart

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 77

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Spoke to soon it would seem

Trying to invoke the Catalyst Centre using amdcccle gives the following error: there was a problem initializing catalyst control center linux edition

If I look at fglrxinfo, there is also an error

david@crunchbang:~$ fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  153 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  12

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el_koraco

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From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Well that didn't update the kernel, how do I update to the latest kernel in the bpo?

sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64

Reboot, and follow this guide: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … s-drivers/

boomclart

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 77

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

EK... following error occurs

david@crunchbang:~$ sudo apt-get -t squeeze-backports linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
E: Invalid operation linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64

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xaos52

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Registered: 2011-06-24

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Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

insert "install" after "-t squeeze-backports"

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boomclart

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Registered: 2011-11-17

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Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Done that now, tried instructions from other thread, installing using smxi but it halts due to a current installation of fglrx being detected.

I've backed out of that and went to uninstall via

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh #let is finish its job
sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorgconf-old
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

If you're just doing a quick uninstall to install a new version of the driver, download the driver to the directory:

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/smd-uninstall.sh
sudo reboot

But the uninstall scripts don't exist, only 5 fglrx-uninstall.log files and a amdpcsdb file are present in /etc/ati/

Under /usr/share/ati/ only a fglrx-install.log file exists

How else am I too proceed?

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el_koraco

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From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,654

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

How else am I too proceed?

Pick the "install radeon driver" option in smxi. Then try to install fglrx manually, not via smxi.

boomclart

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Registered: 2011-11-17

Posts: 77

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Already ahead of you EK, i re-installed the xorg default via smxi then re-installed latest fglrx, a few reboots later and it was sorted.

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el_koraco

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Registered: 2011-07-25

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Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

good man!

Bambi56

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Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 1

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

Just like to say thank you so much for posting this installation, it worked like a charm on my Debian Squeeze 64 bit box and now runs Google Earth very well.  I appreciate your efforts. - Paul

serch

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Registered: 2012-10-06

Posts: 4

Re: How I install Ati drivers on Crunchbang Statler and Debian Squeeze

After a fresh install i tried and got:

apt-get -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64'
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64'

Then i found

uname -r


3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

Then I installed the
3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64

and it worked.

Last edited by serch (2012-10-06 22:35:07)