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Debian Lenny ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati proprietary drivers

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Hardware Linux

This guide will show you how to install on Debian Lenny proprietary drivers for ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati

The packaging scripts for Catalyst drivers 9.1 and 9.2 seem to be broken on Debian Lenny, and as of 9.2, Debian Etch as well.

The quick fix we found for Mepis 8 is to use the SGFXI script from SMXI with the force command..

Installation and configuration on Debian Pure should be identical to Mepis 8.

1 : start from ground zero. You want all of the previous driver information and install files to be gone, and you want to be on the VESA driver. If you have to, reinstall while keeping your /home directory.

2 : open up your terminal and switch to root

3 : copy this command into the terminal :

cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi.zip && unzip smxi.zip

you should get a download and unzip message.

4 : enter the command :

telinit 3

This should kill X and put you at the command prompt.

5 : login as root

If you haven’t done it since you installed, now is a good time to do an apt-get update

6 : type the command :

 

sgfxi -f

7 : hit enter at all the prompts.

When you finish, reboot or start X, and the driver should be loaded properly.

 

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.
  • xavier

    Thanks a lot!

    It was just what I needed to have my TV well recognized by my video card.

    There’s just something missing, the command (Ctrl + Alt + F1) to switch off gnome and install this driver) :D

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Great ! we have another another master trick :-)

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Just delete the space after the slash (/) it will work.

Pat L

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I tried it and it works with a regular zip file, but if you password-protect the .zip file it does NOT work.

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After install as above, run shell script /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica.sh manually and note lib errors still occur. I had the x64 motif loaded but had to manually install the x86 too. Got that from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libXm.so.4 Even after that, I still had to do a “yum install alsa-lib.i686 alsa-lib.x86_64″ to resolve any additional libasound.so.2 errors. Once those two lib issues were resolved, Citix Web Interface launched apps fine by telling browser to open launch.ica using /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica.sh. Good luck Ernesto!

 
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