Graphics Card does not work - Radeon HD 6470m

[woschdsemml]

Hi,

I have a hp Pavilion g6 notebook with integrated Intel graphics and a Radeon HD 6470m, but I cannot use my Radeon.

fglrxinfo, glxinfo and glxgears do not work, I only get this:

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X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  151 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  12
  Current serial number in output stream:  12


xorg.conf:

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Section "Module"
    SubSection  "extmod"
       Option    "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
    Load    "i2c"
    Load    "ddc"
    Load    "vbe"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option    "AllowMouseOpenFail"    "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    VertRefresh    43 - 60
    HorizSync      28 - 80
EndSection


Section "Device"

    Identifier  "SabayonVga0"
    Driver      "intel"
    BusID    "PCI:00:02"
    #Option "RenderAccel" "on"
    #Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "BusType" "PCI"
    #Option "ColorTiling" "on"
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
    # UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
    # NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
    #Option "UseEvents" "True"
    Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"

EndSection
   


Section "Device"

    Identifier  "SabayonVga1"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID    "PCI:01:00"
    #Option "RenderAccel" "on"
    #Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "BusType" "PCI"
    #Option "ColorTiling" "on"
    #Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
    # UseEvents is causing segmentation faults with
    # NVIDIA 6xxx, 7xxx and >=275.xx.xx drivers
    #Option "UseEvents" "True"
    Option "LogoPath" "/usr/share/backgrounds/sabayonlinux-nvidia.png"

EndSection
   


Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Screen 0"
    Device        "SabayonVga0"
    Monitor       "Generic Monitor"
    #Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

EndSection



Section "Screen"

    Identifier    "Screen 1"
    Device        "SabayonVga1"
    Monitor       "Generic Monitor"
    #Option       "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"

    DefaultDepth 24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth      8
        ViewPort   0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        ViewPort        0 0
        #Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier   "Main Layout"
    Screen 0    "Screen 0"
    Screen 1    "Screen 1"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   #Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


Can anyone help? With other distributions I had problems too (but there glxinfo, glxgears and fglrxinfo worked) - only on Opensuse it worked well.

edit: a step-by-step help would be really nice, I'm quite new to gentoo-based distributions.

[H3nS]

hello....
1º you can try to install in entropy store searching for radeon...
2º you can try ubuntu 11.10 or zorin os 5 is easy of use and it's easy to install graphic cards with jockey...




i'm sorry if this 2 tips doesn't help


cheers

[micia]

I suspect your laptop has hybrid graphic card setup, it is a rather known issue for laptops with this setup to be unable to use the dedicated video card (expecially ATI ones) in a stable way. You should setup your laptop to use the integrated card:

1) run this command to setup the intel drivers:
(as root)

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eselect opengl set xorg-x11


2) edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the intel drivers (you have to be root to edit that file):
search for the line, in the Device section containing Driver, edit it like this:

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   Driver      "intel"


3) reboot and see if it helps.

Also notice that in your current setup you are trying to use the fglrx drivers while having your xorg.conf stating to use Driver "intel".