AMD Catalyst 8.9 Gets WINE Fix, RandR 1.2 Support

[Kano]

@Pfanne

The errors I describe are independent of the GPU used. The PointSprites are missing since driver release 8.41.7, that's nothing new, I mentioned that 13 month ago already. And when the only change from one driver to the next is a extremely bad new error then you would not get angry, right? I am responsible for lots of ATI users who use Kanotix and I create patches for ATI drivers on my own if possible. But if the base is so bad then this is completely lost time. If a huge company can not even fix issues introduced over a year ago they lost completely. But to make you happy: the card i used is X700 Pro (RV410) chipset - one of the chipsets with the worst open source driver experience!

[storma]

That driver is fully crap for several reasons:

a) Using Debian etch + Xorg 7.1.1

OpenGL accelleration only works as root! The xorg.conf entry

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Seems to be fully ignored. Absolutely unusable!

Check your permissions on /dev/dri/card0

[Kano]

Good idea to check this:

ls -l /dev/dri/card0
crw-r----- 1 root root 226, 0 2008-09-18 18:01 /dev/dri/card0

[flami]

hum I got another nice "feature" ^^:
flikering lines on the top right part of my screen when I run anything that involves 3d

Im going back 8.8 , Ill be back soon (tm)

[dokers]

AGP?

Anyone try this driver with the AGP 3850 card yet? I haven't had success since the 8.05 driver? I'm on Hardy Heron. If I get a chance I'll try it in the next day or 2.

[flami]

Well now "OffscreenRenderingMode fbo" works in wine again, so no stuff thats not supposed to on the screen appears in the bottom left, but I cant minimize or switch desktop anymore . I can interact with the desktop ( e.g. open something in the taskbar ) , but i cant see anything . It flickers for a second where i see the desktop , then wine's all over the place again .

( debian lenny , mobility x700 )

hum I got another nice "feature" ^^:
flikering lines on the top right part of my screen when I run anything that involves 3d
...
Im going back 8.8 , Ill be back soon (tm)

back to 8.8, fbo doesn't work anymore , but i can switch to the desktop from wine.
those flickering lines ... I don't know , there still are some in ppracer, but theres less and they are not as big anymore. in wine they disappeared
But before i upgraded to 8.9 I never had them.

[Odur]

Works fine, here (Ubuntu 8.04) with my HD 3870.

But, I'm not doing anything interesting.

I too got a HD3870, and I can't switch users without getting a hard lock. Would you mind testing that?


I wrote this about 20 minutes ago in bug report #112518 at Launchpad:

I too got this bug and haven't found a solution yet.

Dist: Kubuntu 8.04.1 Fully upgraded
Graphics card: PowerColor (ATI) HD3870 SCS3
Tested drivers: fglrx 8.3 through 8.9

Symptoms: When switching user the screen goes black and the system is totally unresponsive, including the keyboard. Not even caps-lock trigges the caps-lock light. The only thing that works is the reset button and to hold the powerbutton until it shuts down. Shutdown or restart works without problem (I have fixed the problem with atieventsd, see bug 118605).
If i use the vesa or radeonhd drivers everything is ok. But then I got no 3D acceleration, which I think would be nice...

This bug is really annoying to me, as we are switching users a lot on this computer. It started when I bought this card. I got a ATI X600 before, and that didn't suffer from this bug at all.

Anything else I could provide to help solving this bug, or at least get it triaged?

[Melcar]

hum I got another nice "feature" ^^:
flikering lines on the top right part of my screen when I run anything that involves 3d

Im going back 8.8 , Ill be back soon (tm)

Distortion you mean, as in horizontal lines across the screen? That's nothing new. Even with vsync. on you can notice some level of distortion.
It also happens with video playback, but that I think is another separate issue.

[chrisr]

M66GL results

OpenGL screensavers are still not exiting to a command line when you quit. (Run /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/rubik, and then press ESC.) So this presumably means that I still can't use OpenGL screensavers.

xine is still crashing the Xserver when it uses Textured Video and reaches the end of the movie. So I still can't use XVideo for video playback.

These are both long-standing issues.

I am also seeing this in my Xorg.0.log file:

(II) Loading sub module "vbe"
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so
(EE) fglrx(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11.
(II) fglrx(0): EAX=0x0000004f, EBX=0x00000000, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): ESP=0x00001000, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) fglrx(0): CS=0x0000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) fglrx(0): EIP=0x00000600, EFLAGS=0x00033202
(II) fglrx(0): code at 0x00000600:
 f4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(II) fglrx(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI ATOMBIOS
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 9.12
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: (C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc.
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: M66GL
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
(EE) fglrx(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11.
(II) fglrx(0): EAX=0x0000004f, EBX=0x00004116, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): ESP=0x00001000, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) fglrx(0): CS=0x0000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) fglrx(0): EIP=0x00000600, EFLAGS=0x00033202
(II) fglrx(0): code at 0x00000600:
 f4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(II) fglrx(0): ATI Video BIOS revision 9 or later detected
...
(II) fglrx(0): Using adapter: 1:0.0.
(II) fglrx(0): [FB] Find the MC FB aperturs range(MCFBBase = 0xc0000000, MCFBSize = 0x10000000)
(--) fglrx(0): Video RAM: 262144 kByte, Type: DDR3
(II) fglrx(0): PCIE card detected
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(EE) fglrx(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 11.
(II) fglrx(0): EAX=0x0000004f, EBX=0x00000003, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000000
(II) fglrx(0): ESP=0x00001000, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) fglrx(0): CS=0x0000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) fglrx(0): EIP=0x00000600, EFLAGS=0x00033202
(II) fglrx(0): code at 0x00000600:
 f4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 support is enabled!
(II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 rotation support is enabled!

I don't know what's going on there, but it doesn't look good.

Enabling RandR 1.2 support has reduced the FPS of glxgears from 3700 to ~2214.

[raulromania]

OS: Ubuntu (stable, latest)
Graphicscard: PowerColor HD3850 PCS AGP

First, very big thanks to the hard working developers.

Anyone try this driver with the AGP 3850 card yet? ...

Well, I have a PowerColor 3850 PCS for the very new AGP slot ^^

The driver works almost perfectly with it. I am very glad to see that.
Flash videos now working without lags, even with xv enabled. (see the following 'xorg.conf')

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"CherryEvolutionFlat"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-046a_0023-event-kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"RazerDiamondback"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Razer_Razer_1600dpi_Mouse-event-mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"KeySonicACK540RF"
	Driver		"evdev"
	Option		"Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-05af_2.4G_USB_RF_KeyBoard-event-kbd"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"VideoOut0"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Screen		0
	Option		"UseInternalAGPGART"	"true"
	Option		"VideoOverlay"		"true"
	Option		"OpenGLOverlay"		"false"
	Option		"BackingStore"		"true"
	Option		"BlockSignalsOnLock"	"true"
	Option		"TexturedVideo"		"true"
	Option		"TexturedVideoSync"	"true"
	Option		"Textured2D"		"true"
	Option		"TexturedXRender"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"VideoOut1"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Screen		1
	Option		"UseInternalAGPGART"	"true"
	Option		"VideoOverlay"		"true"
	Option		"OpenGLOverlay"		"false"
	Option		"BackingStore"		"true"
	Option		"BlockSignalsOnLock"	"true"
	Option		"TexturedVideo"		"true"
	Option		"TexturedVideoSync"	"true"
	Option		"Textured2D"		"true"
	Option		"TexturedXRender"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"MonitorSettings"
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Screen0"
	Monitor		"MonitorSettings"
	Device		"VideoOut0"
	DefaultDepth	24
        SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1280x1024"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier      "Screen1"
	Monitor         "MonitorSettings"
	Device          "VideoOut1"
	DefaultDepth    24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1920x1080"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"DisplayLayout"
	Screen		"Screen0"
	Screen		"Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option		"AllowMouseOpenFail"	"true"
EndSection

WINE works well, too (still hard work needed).

Well, there is a thing, i would be happy if they fix it soon.
I have an Samsung LE40A656 FULL HD LCD and I get this "black border" issue.
I think the developers are aware of the underscan issue.

See → http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showt...0073&page=4#40

The workaround with ...

sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-val=MCIL,DigitalHDTVDefaultUnderscan,0

... works very good, but I'd like to adjust it easier, i.e. in the AMDCCCLE.

greetz.