04-14-2016, 05:24 AM
(04-02-2016, 07:08 PM)arrabal Wrote: For anyone having such pre-historic hardware like me, I finally managed to make it work. I installed Linux Mint x86_64 offline, no network connection during install. After installing and logging in, I connected to the network, went to preferences and then to hardware controllers. There, it marked the graphic card as detected, providing the exact model, and it gave me the choice to install either an open source driver or a propietary one (fglrx). I chose fglrx and it was automatically installed. After rebooting, clinfo command detected the GPU and oclHashcat64 worked OK.
I followed these instructions exactly with my HD 5830 and Mint KDE 17.3. After I rebooted, I get a black screen, then I get a blue screen in curses with a long explanation of why X just died. The (WW) warning line is:
fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
then it seg faults.
I tried following these instructions from epixoip with Ubuntu Server too. https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_server_howto
But I think there is some steps missing at the end. After you write the X config stuff and then reboot, you get a ghetto X prompt to login. When I try, it says cannot go any further because you are missing /home/<user>/.Xsession file. I tried googling this but there was no help about it. At that point you are totally stuck. I ctrl+alt+f2 to a new terminal and tried 'touch' ing that file, and that didnt help. you never get past the login prompt.
Does anyone have any advice or know a distro or tutorial that will work? This can't be that hard! Thanks