ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Good morning,
I have a new asus laptop and I have installed ubuntu KArmic.
The problem is that there is no driver for the ATI mobility radeon HD5470
and the graphic is so bad!
On amd-ati website I have found the catalyst driver version 10.2 but
it seems not to be the correct solution.
Do you have any suggestion?
If there is not the driver for ubuntu, do you think we have to wait
for a long time?
Thanks in advance
Regards.
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Hello, I too have the same GPU in my new Sony Vaio. Luckily the screen resolution is OK for the moment, but it would be nice to have the correct driver, so I can enable compiz etc.
My post - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...Radeon+HD+5470
Let's hope there is a driver in Lucid :-)
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Hey there guys. I had the exact same problem.
I got the ASUS K72JR-A1 (amazing laptop). I kept reading the forums until I realized the pattern that was fixing the issue.
There is something off about Catalyst 10.2 and I could never get it to work. Here are the steps that fixed it (going to get into detail for new users):
- EDIT: First sudo update-pciids
- Then go and download Catalyst 10.1 from ati.com. This can be done here - http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx
- chmod +x ati-driver-installer-10-1-x86.x86_64.run
- sudo ./ati-driver-installer-10-1-x86.x86_64.run
- If you don't have jockey installed (the proprietary hardware manager) sudo apt-get install jockey-common.
- then sudo jockey-text -l which should list your adapter. In my case the first column said "xorg:fglrx"
- sudo jockey-text -e xorg:fglrx When you restart after this step, you will get an irritating "AMD unsupported hardware" (stupid AMD, can't see a REAL reason they even did that aside from the fact that they got crap for brains).
- The fix for the watermark is to create a file (e.g. "wm.sh") and paste the quoted text below:
Quote:
#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6
}'); do
echo found $x
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done
- Then chmod +x wm.sh
- Followed by sudo ./wm.sh
- Restart your box and you are good. Compiz should work at this stage. The Catalyst control center should be functional as well.
IMPORTANT: After you do this, and if you are using Gnome, your Ethernet (that worked perfectly before) might screw up and there is apparently a fix for it (I use KDE because it's BETTER) and I don't have the problem. If I boot into Gnome, it doesn't work. And let's hope that ATI releases proper mobility support in Catalyst 10.3 as promised. Though Sony and a few other snobby companies have opted out of having their hardware support (for what reason? no fscking clue).
Link for Ethernet fix for ubuntu was somewhere around the forum and i can't seem to find it again.
If this works for you, or there are issue, post back here and I'll get the email notification and try to help
UPDATE: You might have to run sudo update-pciids before you start these steps
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Amazing solution, thank you very much, it works flawless on Catalyst 10.3 form my Asus N61JQ.
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Quote:
Originally Posted by
zeusave
Amazing solution, thank you very much, it works flawless on Catalyst 10.3 form my Asus N61JQ.
You are welcome. It baffles me that there is HT 5000 support for ******* in C10.3, but for some reason the parallel Linux driver had that left out.
ATI didn't get any better with AMD buying it.
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
this doesent seems to work with 10.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 beta
the closed source driver is loaded automatically after install, but aticonfig reports unsupported card, and compiz fails to start.
mplayer also crash when I choose opengl output ...
I'll try with 10.1 and report back
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Just an update:
10.3 seems in fact to fix this problem.
For ubuntu 10.04 beta users, you should install the fglrx package.
to see if everything is going ok, run the command fgrlxinfo
If you got a segmentation error, "sudo aticonfig --initial" should help
finally, if you cant find the AMD configuration control center, you can find it here:
/usr/lib/fglrx/bin/amdcccle
I got these information from various forums, they helped me, and I hope they will help you ...
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Thanks!!! You are a life saver! The solution works GREAT
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
Quote:
Originally Posted by
karatchov
Just an update:
10.3 seems in fact to fix this problem.
For ubuntu 10.04 beta users, you should install the fglrx package.
to see if everything is going ok, run the command fgrlxinfo
If you got a segmentation error, "sudo aticonfig --initial" should help
finally, if you cant find the AMD configuration control center, you can find it here:
/usr/lib/fglrx/bin/amdcccle
I got these information from various forums, they helped me, and I hope they will help you ...
Where did you find the ati mobility radeon 5470 drivers? They only list the 4000 series under mobility section.
Re: ATI mobility Radeon HD 5470
@crypto
Thank you sir you rock, I spent hours trying to get 10-2 to work after reinstalling ubuntu on my wifes acer laptop.:guitar:
Quote:
Where did you find the ati mobility radeon 5470 drivers? They only list the 4000 series under mobility section.
I followed Crypto's ATI link in his first dot point and got the 10-1 drivers they work beautifully with the mobility radeon 5470.
Edit:
I've since tried to upgrade the ATI drivers on my laptop because I wanted to use dual screens and catalyst was not working, I've got a mobility radeon 4650 so thought the 10-3 drivers would help me out, how wrong was I, catalyst still didn't work and my display was God awefully rubbish so I tried the 10-1 drivers and everything works perfectly (oh and I didn't get the annoying watermark either), I'm really starting to wonder about ATI/AMD.