AMD HD 6850 drivers

[JDShu]

Well, I just got my amd hd 6850 and after installing it found out it doesn't work in linux because there are no drivers. Can I get a refund? Why does Amd sell product that isn't complete?

Does this work? According to the 10.10 release notes, the 6800 series is supported, so 10.11 should have that support too.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...2&lang=English

[olof_]

Well, I just got my amd hd 6850 and after installing it found out it doesn't work in linux because there are no drivers. Can I get a refund? Why does Amd sell product that isn't complete?

actually I can get it working, try adding some ppa:s, I think that was what made it work out for me.

Yesterday I found out I get two clearly different values when using this two different commands, and my only conclusion is that they read from different graphic cards (as I have two, one 4850 and one 6850).
this one only reads from my 6850:

aticonfig --pplib "get temperature *"
Temperature for thermal controller 0 is 43.500000

and this one only reads from my 4850:

aticonfig --od-gettemperature
Default Adapter - ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series        
                  Sensor 0: Temperature - 74.00 C

hope maybe adding the ppa:s will help some.

someone else having this strange sensor-reading "errors"?

[Lklklk]

I installed Catalyst 10.10 and it works. I'm not sure about 10.11.. maybe I'll try it later. Also after installing it's necessary to manually edit xorg.conf.

[Lklklk]

Yesterday I found out I get two clearly different values when using this two different commands, and my only conclusion is that they read from different graphic cards (as I have two, one 4850 and one 6850).
this one only reads from my 6850:

aticonfig --pplib "get temperature *"
Temperature for thermal controller 0 is 43.500000

All I get is

aticonfig --pplib "get temperature *"
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

[olof_]

All I get is

aticonfig --pplib "get temperature *"
aticonfig: No supported adapters detected

maybe try with

aticonfig --pplib "get temperature 0"

I just checked and I am using catalyst 10.10.

Anyone more than me who got this "AMD Unsupported hardware" thing in the bottom right corner?

Another thing too, just searched in the aticonfig --help, and it does not even mention --pplib, is not that strange?

[olof_]

Is not this thread in the complete wrong section?

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Maybe someone "admin" want to move this thread to a more suitable place?

[cariboo]

Moved to General Help

[olof_]

Another update, I started into MS Windows just to see how things looked there, and the fan on the 4850 were at 25%, the lowest possible setting. Raising it to about 50% made no additional noise and I had a stable computer again (when using Windows).

Now, please ATI/AMD, release your next linux driver!

[olof_]

Just to update the thread a little have I made a "script" which displays both my graphic cards temperatures and sends it to notify-osd. It is almost perfect, but to me that is enough.(it shows a little misplaced Ra in the first line, coming from Radeon)
I am using it togheter with xbindkeys and have assigned it a keyboard shoutcut. Maybe someone will find it as useful as I find it.

notify-send -i jockey "GPU temps" "`aticonfig --od-gettemperature | awk '{print substr($5,0,2)}' && aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get temperature 0" | awk '{print substr($7,0,2)}' `"

it must be on the same line, and therefore it looks quite long above.

[Heuamöbe]

Hi
I have a HD 6950 in my new Coumputer and the Driver in the repository is not working, I get a black screen when I boot. The last thing that could be seen is "Too many conections."

Without the fglrx-Driver the resolution is 1280*980 or something like that, what is not accaptable for a FullHD monitor... ;( Catalyst 10.11 creates only errors, too.

Have you any ideas how to get a proper resolution (maybe with some desktop effects *sigh*)?

Thank you very much, I hope everythings understandable... (I'm german)