Fglrx 10.2 fails to install on 2.6.33

[bolzerrr]

Hey,

did anone made it to install fglrx10.2 on the new kernel 2.6.33? I can build teh *.deb but when i try to install it throws an error: Kernel Version differs "" and "2.6.33" inside utsrelease.h (wich does not exists anymore)
Can someone help?
Cheers

[dgrafenhofer]

I have not tried it out myself, but there is a patch for 2.6.33:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showp...4&postcount=10

[krionius]

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst/catalyst/fglrx-2.6.33.patch

[bolzerrr]

Thanks all!
Will try this patch. Guess i have to extract the .run and apply it there?!

[Viper_Scull]

After patching the files. How do i build and install the driver?

[paproch]

After patching the files. How do i build and install the driver?

Just type in the unpacked ati package :
sh ati-installer.sh . --install

Be attentive : between words ati-installer.sh and --install it`s a "." (point,dot etc).

[gtludwig]

opening the .patch file, I haven't found references to 10.2. Instead it refers 10.1. Will this patch work for 10.2?

If so, what's the correct procedure to do so?

I tried:

gtl@cpc-5564:~/Downloads$ cd ati
gtl@cpc-5564:~/Downloads/ati$ ls
ati-driver-installer-10-2-x86.x86_64.run  fglrx-2.6.33.patch
gtl@cpc-5564:~/Downloads/ati$ sh ati-driver-installer-10-2-x86.x86_64.run --extract .
Warning: target directory exists .
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.702.............(...)
gtl@cpc-5564:~/Downloads/ati$ patch -p0 fglrx-2.6.33.patch

nothing else happens.

Please avise,
Thanks in advance,

gtludwig

[paproch]

opening the .patch file, I haven't found references to 10.2. Instead it refers 10.1. Will this patch work for 10.2?

10.2 with patch & kernel 2.6.33 work perfectly.

If so, what's the correct procedure to do so?

how to patch it :
cd unpacked_ati_directory
patch -p1 < ../fglrx.2.6.33.patch
sh ati-installer.sh . --install

After successfully compiling restart your penguin
If you had some errors like freeze,reboot or bug: "smp_processor preemptible" ( run terminal and type dmesg )recompile your kernel changing option from "preemptible kernel low latency desktop" to "Voluntary kernel preemption".
Greetings.

[seebs]

So if I don't see "smp_processor preemptible", I don't have to rebuild my kernel, right? (I ask because I'm getting annoying hangs sporadically with the driver.)

[gtludwig]

I managed to apply the patch thanks to paproch, it installed ok, but X failed to start. Switching to radeonhd I can fire up X, properly.

I'm wondering how can I completely remove this driver so i can perform a clean installation. I'll edit this post to paste the link for my /var/log/Xorg.0.log in a little while.