Ati X1600 Linux Drivers For Mac

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13.5 ATI X1600 (RV530 series) 3D application show black windows. Is a proper way to use hybrid graphics on Linux, but still requires a bit of manual intervention from the user. HDMI audio is supported in the xf86-video-ati video driver. To disable HDMI audio add radeon.audio=0 to your kernel parameters. I too experienced the heat problems with my MacBook pro with the x1600. I am convinced that the graphic issues on my machine are directly related to the temperature of the GPU. Once the temperature gets above 60c my system starts to exhibit graphics glitches (tearing striping etc). NVidia Graphics Driver (Windows Vista 32-bit / Windows 7 32-bit / Windows 8 32-bit) Free Update your nVidia graphics processing unit to the latest drivers. I can't speak from experience with a Mac Book but one of my HP notebooks has a x1600 video card. Even with Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12.04) only the open source Radeon drivers were available. Graphics performance is pretty mediocre and the darn graphics runs very hot with the Linux drivers (it ain't an awful lot cooler with the Windows drivers either).

I'm very new to Linux and I'm trying to bring some new life into an old imac (mid-2006). Everything is working fine, except for the ATI Radeon Mobility x1600. I understand the driver is now open source as ATI/AMD has discontinued the driver, however even when the open source driver is installed by default it doesn't seem to work, at least the way I'm understanding. The only way I can boot any distro at all is by using the 'nomodeset', 'radeon.dpm=0' or similar tags. Do these tags turn off hardware acceleration? Is it actually using the radeon open source drivers or just using default graphics drivers when using these tags?

Also, is this the only way to use this video card with linux, or am I doing something wrong? Are there older versions that are still current that offer better support and performance for the X1600?

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Hello all,
After a week of tearing my hair out and reading threads on this forum and others, I was able to get Mint 18 working on a late 2006 iMac. Everything minus the iSight camera works, but that's not a problem. What IS a problem is heat generation. I know that it is commonly known that Mint/Ubuntu 'run hot' on Macs for whatever reason, and usually people fight this by using some sort of fan control. While this may remedy the heat and eventually wear out fans that weren't designed to run all of the time, it doesn't address the actual issue. I also considered going back to 17, but this heat issue has been around since 13, from what I've read. Perhaps even further.

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I seem to have narrowed the problem (at least on my machine) to the graphics. The system is a Core 2 Duo 2.16. Viewing System Monitor 'resources' tab - both cores are at 10 - 15% usage at idle. Moving the mouse increases both cores by 5%. Dragging a window across the screen brings both cores to 65%. Scrolling a window in FireFox brings both cores to 100% momentarily. System Monitor 'processes' tab doesn't show ANY CPU usage hardly at all, with System Monitor bringing the lead at 5%.
Symptoms - after about 1-2 hours of use, the video gets 'flaky'. Some fonts look weird, random lines and dots on the screen, etc. Reaching behind the iMac where the vent is feels like heat that would be sufficient to cook an egg.

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Graphics - ATI Radeon x1600 mobility with 512k VRAM. The iMacs internally are a laptop configuration. Of course the logic board is made specifically for the iMac, but the 'flavor' of the setup is basically a laptop. Most Linux distros treat it as such. Is there a different driver that I can try? The one that is installed defaulty works wonderful, but something about this particular configuration doesn't seem 100% compatible with this graphics chipset. Is there somewhere else I can check for CPU usage? How can I try and narrow this down? Perhaps I'm using the regular x1600 drivers and not the mobility drivers? Would there be a difference? How can I check?

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I also realize that Gnome may just be too much for this old machine to handle, but I think a Core 2 Duo with 3GB ram should be able to operate within this environment pretty easy. I'm not trying to play games or process videos and graphics. I just want to browse the web and do email. Any suggestions would be appreciated.