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Offline scorn

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Catalyst Control Center?
« on: February 12, 2013, 08:37:20 PM »
Hey all.
First day with PCLinuxOS 2013 on a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop. I really like it so far and bailed on Mint 14 because it was a lockup nightmare. Well anyway, I just have a question. (I hope this forum is more helpful to Noobs than the Mint forum). Because my laptop is older and the ATI video card is old the catalyst control center always says:

There was a problem initializing Catalyst Control Center Linux edition.  It could be caused by the following.

No AMD graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly.
Please install the AMD driver appropriate for you AMD hardware, or configure using aticonfig. Is this something I can just ignore or am I going to be having problems? It seems to be running ok but I havent done anything really graphics intensive either. well thanks in advance for any help yall.
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Offline Texstar

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Re: Catalyst Control Center?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2013, 08:57:25 PM »
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000, up to 128mb shared  is no longer supported by the AMD/ATI fglrx driver. Even the lastest xorg driver has pretty much dropped 3D support for that ancient video card.
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Re: Catalyst Control Center?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2013, 06:41:20 AM »
On the AMD support website, the request of the selection (integrated motherboard graphics/radeon IGP series/radeon 9000 IGP series/Linux_x86) return the "ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver 8.28.8" : http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run.

Is it really your graphic chipset ?
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Offline monsee

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Re: Catalyst Control Center?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2013, 01:44:39 AM »
Me too (on my 64-bit notebook) had the same error-message.
It happens because there was a problem (I don't know exactly what) about the CCC and my Kernel (the last stable PCLinuxOS Kernel that is on Synaptic).
The CCC work with precedent Kernel, but there is no-reason to resolve using that way.
To solve my problem I proceed to run (using Terminal, as root) the "aticonfig" command... and, after that, reboot my notebook.
During reboot, the "aticonfig" program can work and ask about the ATI driver configurazion (you can answer using keyboard). After that, I had my Catalist Control Center working fine and a well configured ATI Graphic driver...
Try the same: I think it can work.
Just open Terminal and, as root, type: aticonfig.
After that, reboot your PC. At reboot answer to all aticonfig question. That is all.
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