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Re: fglrx driver



On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:43:32PM +0400, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
> Gents and Ladies :-) please advise.
> 
> I have an HP notebook with Ati Radeon 4200 GPU on board and
> sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine"
> while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster
> had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after
> update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx.
> Unfortunately this driver doesn't allow me to play Heroes of MM V. I
> tried to return to previous version of fglrx-driver(from
> snapshots.debian.org repo), but didn't succeed in it because driver
> depends on many packages including Xorg and so forth. I also tried
> fglrx-legacy-driver from experimental repository, but it hangs my
> system. Could you suggest please what steps i should do to manage my
> radeon working as it was before. My debian version is wheezy,
> current version of radeon driver which i see in the repo is
> 1:12-6+point-1.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FYI, I don't see this version at
  http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=xserver-xorg-video-radeon


Did you install the non-free firmware along with the radeon driver? Did
"Heroes of MM V" report any errors or is performance simply lacking?

> 
> It is really important because i can't eat, i'm always in a bad
> mood, i'm bad with women and i'm suffering from insomnia without my
> old good games :-))) Thank you in advance.

If it's that important to you, why not install Windows alongside Linux
and boot into it to play the games?

> 
> P.S.
> Please do not advise any pills.

% apt-cache show pills
N: Unable to locate package pills
E: No packages found

> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Roman V.Leon.
> 

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