Problem with Catalyst v8.6 and 8.7

[d2kx]

Hi,


Why not ask that Bridgman guy, believe or not he actually works for ATI, he has nothing to say about the bugs, or offer any help, just quotes release notes all the time.

He has everyone here practically beta testing for him, month after month.
send me your xorg log and rubbish like that. All we get is more bugs.It makes you wonder if they test them at all or leave all to beta testers.

These driver errors are really embarrassing, they are worse than beta drivers.

You've posted in the wrong thread/forum. I'll help you out:

http://thevistaforums.com/

[Melcar]

You've posted in the wrong thread/forum. I'll help you out:

http://thevistaforums.com/

Anyway, they do test the drivers, and work really hard at getting them working. To say otherwise is simply insulting.

[rbmorse]

I think he was trying to be insulting.

[smlbstcbr]

Hi,


Why not ask that Bridgman guy, believe or not he actually works for ATI, he has nothing to say about the bugs, or offer any help, just quotes release notes all the time.

He has everyone here practically beta testing for him, month after month.
send me your xorg log and rubbish like that. All we get is more bugs.It makes you wonder if they test them at all or leave all to beta testers.

These driver errors are really embarrassing, they are worse than beta drivers.

Ouch, very immature, very odd from someone who uses Linux.
I believe that the problems seen with fglrx are (at my impression) in almost all cases, related with the Linux distro. I've been using fglrx since 7-12 with my Gentoo Linux (and kernel) and fglrx has been doing very well. No major issues.

[shishir]

I have fglrx 8.49.7, or 8.5, installed, and am running openSUSE 11.0, x86_64, kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default.

$fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7537 FireGL Release

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I have AIGLX enabled, and running compiz. Somehow, the video quality on full screen is poor. I am forced to use X11 video output on vlc (all other options crash it), which causes the picture quality to go down when i increase the size of the window.

I am not able to run Xgl, as it shows mesa libs as being used, when I run fglrxinfo. Firefox,with AIGLX for eg, gets stuck, and then jumps to fullscreen mode, instead of being smooth, like with Xgl. But, I cant play videos on Xgl as it becomes too choppy.

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6585&page=25&p=36189

edit: I tried disabling compiz, but no improvement.

[shishir]

I have fglrx 8.49.7, or 8.5, installed, and am running openSUSE 11.0, x86_64, kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default.

$fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7537 FireGL Release

----------------------------------------------------------
I have AIGLX enabled, and running compiz. Somehow, the video quality on full screen is poor. I am forced to use X11 video output on vlc (all other options crash it), which causes the picture quality to go down when i increase the size of the window.

I am not able to run Xgl, as it shows mesa libs as being used, when I run fglrxinfo. Firefox,with AIGLX for eg, gets stuck, and then jumps to fullscreen mode, instead of being smooth, like with Xgl. But, I cant play videos on Xgl as it becomes too choppy.

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6585&page=25&p=36189

edit: I tried disabling compiz, but no improvement.

Ok, so I did some digging around, and found that in case of Xgl, MESA-PROXy is being used, and fglrx_dri.so is not being loaded.

Xorg.93.log snippet :

(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0

[mancunian]

The wierd thing is that a few users have seen this with the open source drivers (matching your description exactly IIRC) but I hadn't heard about it happening on fglrx before.

A couple of years back I (and quite a few other people, too) had the same problem with the nvidia driver for a geforce 2500FX card. I remember that it took nvidia a few months to solve it.So it was a case of deja vu when I experienced it for the first time with my radeon X1550-64.

Anyways, I checked the kdm-logfiles, and the crash does actually leave a trace there:

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

Every time the crash occurs I can not restart the xserver, the system also locks up completely. The only way out is a hard-reset.

[shishir]

Ok, so I did some digging around, and found that in case of Xgl, MESA-PROXy is being used, and fglrx_dri.so is not being loaded.

Xorg.93.log snippet :

(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3

Ok, so some more digging , I changed the Xgl options, removing "/usr/bin/Xgl -accel glx -accel xvbuffer", instead of using pbuffer.

fglrxinfo :
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5250
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.1.7769 FireGL Release)

Now, I am not able to fgl_glxgears, or glxgears(it runs with no gears shown), and resizing it crashes the X session. Also, do see MESA-PROXY still being used.

[ktraglin]

fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1550 64-bit
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7769 Release

Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit)

Motherboard: Biostar TA770 A2+ (with latest BIOS update).

I had similar problems with the past couple versions of the ATI drivers. What I experienced was an xserver crash, that often would lock-up the entire system. Playing around with several xorg settings only helped temporarily (less than 24 hours). At some point, I realized that these problems would happen mostly when running Miro, which I use pretty much every day. Miro would crash frequently. Using the ATI drivers, when Miro crashed it also took the xserver down with it, and often the machine would just lock-up.

Doing all kinds of searching on the web, I found that my motherboard uses an SB600 Southbridge. Also, using Phoronix Test Suite, I was able to find that my motherboard is NOT fully ACPI compliant. Changes to some kernel boot-options seem to have made my entire system much more stable. I added "acpi=off pci=nomsi" to the end of all the "kernel" lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst. Now, though Miro still crashes just as often, my system doesn't crash with it.

There are still some issues with "flickering" while watching videos with compiz running, but turning compiz off is my temporary remedy for that. I'm hopeful that Ubuntu 8.10, with xorg 7.4 and open-source ATI drivers will address the remaining issues. In the meantime, if anyone knows how to stop this flickering, I would be very much appreciative.

[RealNC]

I've been using fglrx since 7-12 with my Gentoo Linux (and kernel) and fglrx has been doing very well. No major issues.

I'm on Gentoo too. AMD64 (Intel Core 2). What ATI card do you have? With my X1950XT, fglrx is a disaster.

Also, what software do you run? I have problems with Wine, full-screen Flash (YouTube) and full screen Video (mplayer). X-Video is tearing extremely badly. And switching from X to a console sometimes results in the card locking up completely.