ATI RADEON on AGP does not work.

**DidierDrigbi** · April 6th, 2014

Hi,

To begin with, I am new Ubuntu user. I moved from the Win XP and felt in love with the Linux family straight away.
But I faced hardware problem with graphics card and I will be very gratefull if you help me to solve it.

My ubunutu version: 12.04.04 LTS (all updates installed during installation +those installed after the installation process).
Please, don't try to encourage me to move to the newest version. I know it does exist, but I don't want it, cause not everything is properly translated and fully stable.

My graphics card: ATI RADEON HD4670 AGP (8X).
My processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz Hyper-Threating (I read that disabling hype-threating may help, but it doesn't).

PROBLEM:
My graphics card after system installation appears to be "Unknown", "Interface: Standard".
I tried to enable the 3D acceleration by installing the driver from the AMD site. No go (Card not supported).
So I tried to install fglrx (propierity).

After installation of the fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle i tried to configure the xorg.conf automatically:

Code:

$ sudo aticonfig --initial

it says: no supported adapters found.

I checked the bus ID

Code:

$ lspci | grep VGA

and tried to create the xorg.conf manually

Code:

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option      "AGPMode" "4"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

but the system does not boot this way (says that it must run in low settings but doesn't allow me anywhere but into console. So i removed the driver from the console (apt-get remove, rm xorg.conf), and now it boots.

I have no idea how to enable 3D acceleration in this card.
Would you be so kind and help me with this?

**Yellow Pasque** · April 6th, 2014

It's probably already enabled (or at least it was until you tried to install the proprietary driver). You got hit with the n00b bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/946620

**DidierDrigbi** · April 6th, 2014

This was helpful, thank you. I re-installed the whole system to clean all the mess and on a clean installation, I installed mesa-utils. Now, it recognises my card as Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV730. Is that correct, does it mean i have 3D acceleration? Becasue I there is no xorg.conf file.