Help configuring legacy ATI HD4200 [Solved]

[felixlinares]

Hi everyone, I know due new kernel proprietary drivers for some ati cards are no longer supported, however I've seen there are some beta drivers that might work.

I have an ASUS mainboard with an incorporated ati HD 4200.

I tried with the 12.6 3.5 and 3.6 beta drivers, aticonfig --list-adapters shows it recognizes my video card but after I configure video using aticonfig --initial and checked everything is ok in xorg.conf I reboot the machine and I got a black screen with a no blinking cursor at top left side of the screen and that's all machine is frozen, I have to reboot and modify xorg.conf back to ati instead fglrx so i can get access to the system again.

I have kernel 3.6, also tried booting using kernel 3.5 and reinstalling drivers under that kernel but result is the same. aticonfig doesnt recognice my video card with driver 12.8 installed.

lspci shows my video card is present:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]

I want to get proprietary driver working because open driver is awfully slow, if someone could help me I'd be thankful.

PS: Btw sorry my English got rusty.

[Stupot]

Uninstall whatever ati-drivers you currently have and install:

x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897

Note: Eventually, Sabayon will upgrade to newer X server and supporting 12.6 ati drivers won't be possible anymore.

[felixlinares]

Thank you for your answer,

I tried with beta drivers, as I said in my previous post I installed 12.6_beta_pre897 # 3.5 and 3.6 (one at time) but after configure xorg.conf with aticonfg and reboot machine hangs.

[micia]

To replace the open source drivers with the proprietary ones see this post:
viewtopic.php?f=86&t=28275#p154472

You probably missed the eselect part.

[svantoviit]

With ATI HD4200 you probably need the open source driver: xf86-video-ati

[felixlinares]

Thank you micia !, the guide solved my problem !!.