CentOS - Jan 2014 - Using ATI Radeon X1300 Video Card with Centos 6.5

I have a ATI Radeon X1300 video card installed in a ThinkPad Advanced 
Docking Station where the laptop runs Centos 6.5.

Upon Googling it seems that Centos 6.4 broke compatibility with the 
kmod-fglrx-legacy driver and that the only way around it is to downgrade 
X to an older version. However, the last note seems to be from before 
summer and I was hoping that there might have been some additional work 
done and it could now be used with Centos 6.5. I am not too keen on 
downgrading stuff since I am a relative newcomer to Linux...

Does anyone have any information?

Thanks.

On 01/27/2014 10:07 PM, H wrote:
> I have a ATI Radeon X1300 video card installed in a ThinkPad Advanced
> Docking Station where the laptop runs Centos 6.5.
>
> Upon Googling it seems that Centos 6.4 broke compatibility with the
> kmod-fglrx-legacy driver and that the only way around it is to downgrade
> X to an older version. However, the last note seems to be from before
> summer and I was hoping that there might have been some additional work
> done and it could now be used with Centos 6.5. I am not too keen on
> downgrading stuff since I am a relative newcomer to Linux...
>
> Does anyone have any information?
>
> Thanks.

I just had same problem, with latest elrepo packages, and on 6500HD GPU 
(inside CPU). Try removing kmod-fglrx and see if it does what you need 
it to do. Maybe you do not need propriatery driver, maybe one inside 
kernel is fine for your use.



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