[Graphics] Ati Radeon 6470M driver issues

[Giustino[ITA]]

Hi everyone ,

I need help for my 6470M that I am not able to run on my HP G6-1273sl with Kubuntu 17.04.

In driver manager I can only find the proprietary driver's Intel and I already tried to install the free driver by responsories but actually they would seem off-line .

I also tried install the Linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.run from the AMD site but It not works.
Exist a way to able to run this VGA on Linux ? Someone with the same card or similar has fixed this issues ?

Thanks

[dequire]

Hello. AMD drivers are built into the Linux kernel already. You should not have to install anything. The driver should say "amdgpu", and can be checked by tying the following in a terminal:

lshw -c video

The driver information will be near the bottom of the output.

[Giustino[ITA]]

Hi dequire, thank you and I have tried this command and appares that:

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:30 memory:c0000000-c03fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

It should seem that the current vga is the integrated Intel. How I can to activate the Radeon ?

[dequire]

Hello again. Since your model has integrated Intel graphics, I would be surprised to also find integrated AMD graphics as well. If there is indeed AMD graphics present in your HP model, it would need to be present via an AMD APU, meaning that it would need to have an AMD APU processor that also contained the GPU on the same die. Do you know your processor model? Again, in a terminal, you can run:

sudo lshw -class processor

Which will show your processor model. Let us know and we'll go from there. By the way, on page 21 of the service manual, it shows all of the processor-types that were issued on your HP model.
http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02770249.pdf

[Giustino[ITA]]

Hi, the command shows

*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 12
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
slot: CPU1
size: 799MHz
capacity: 4GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 1333MHz
capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts cpufreq
configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 threads=4

The laptop has aboard a dedicated VGA called 6470M, but the system going to use only the intel graphic card.
If I write: lspci | grep -i --color 'vga\|3d\|2d', it shows:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] (rev ff)

I believe sure that the system's using the graphic Intel. Exist a way for activate the vga Radeon ?
Thank you for your help dequire.

[vinnywright]

check

lspci -k

and see if their are kernel driver's and modules listed for both .

then run

glxheads

and see what it said

VINNY

[Giustino[ITA]]

Hi Vinny, this is the result at the first code lspci -k:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:01.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:01.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me

00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
Kernel modules: lpc_ich

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
Kernel modules: i2c_i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] (rev ff)
DeviceName: ATI SEYMOUR XT
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon

04:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 05)
DeviceName: Realtek Gbe Lan Connection
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

06:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader
Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
Kernel modules: rtsx_pci

At the 01:00.0 there is the Radeon, but I am sure that now It's working the Intel graphics.

If I am going to write the command glxheads, the result is this:

glxheads: exercise multiple GLX connections (any key = exit)
Usage:
glxheads xdisplayname ...
Example:
glxheads :0 mars:0 venus:1
Name: :0
Display: 0x558cf6640420
Window: 0x6200002
Context: 0x558cf664e320
GL_VERSION: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.3
GL_VENDOR: Intel Open Source Technology Center
GL_RENDERER: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 2816 requests (286 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

It has appeared a rotating triangle too. I think it's Intel's graphics card running, how I can activate the radeon ?
Thank you for your help.