10.5 is out. come and get it.

[WildcatWhiz]

compiz + opengl + mplayer works without tearing. And yes, it works with compositing on.

With what card?

[Hans]

With what card?

With a hd4650 mobility.
It is very important to use mplayer, which is the only media player i know of, that makes fglrx render the video in a direct rendered window instead of in a indirect rendered window (you will get tearing).

Also should be noted, that you have to enable vsync always through amdcccle.

[WildcatWhiz]

With a hd4650 mobility.
It is very important to use mplayer, which is the only media player i know of, that makes fglrx render the video in a direct rendered window instead of in a indirect rendered window (you will get tearing).

Also should be noted, that you have to enable vsync always through amdcccle.

You, my friend, are on. I'm trying this tonight!

[Hans]

You, my friend, are on. I'm trying this tonight!

Oh and btw. I am able to use gmplayer as a frontend to mplayer also. It still renders through mplayer.

[Panix]

What happens if you try to use VLC for your video player?

[Hans]

What happens if you try to use VLC for your video player?

Just tried it. Doesn't work. I get tearing.
I have only had success with mplayer.

[noobish]

You use Ubuntu 10.4, I believe? You can try what I did... (64bit too)

Install it freshly from ISO, use X-Swat repository below:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates

And use the fix from above!

Maybe it helps!

Yes, I'm using 10.04 64. I did a fresh install and added the ppa for x-swat. Marked fglrx, amdcccle, modaliases, and all the other associated packages for upgrade. fglrx and amdcccle failed complaining about not being able to apply the arch_fglrx_2.6.34.patch. Was able to resolve that from here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1496724

But now I get:

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.34-020634-generic (x86_64)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.732/build/ for more information.

The make.log file:

DKMS make.log for fglrx-8.732 for kernel 2.6.34-020634-generic (x86_64)
Fri Jun  4 03:18:58 PDT 2010
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
cat: /lib/modules/2.6.34-020634-generic/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
Error:
kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.34-020634-generic/build/include do not match current kernel.
they are versioned as ""
instead of "2.6.34-020634-generic".
you might need to adjust your symlinks:
- /usr/include
- /usr/src/linux

Really freaking strange, because uname -a matches that kernel number and the kernel and headers installs went off without a hitch.

Did you run into any of these issues? If so, how did you fix them?

[noobish]

Just noticed there's a new fglrx build in 6 hours with this in the log: "Add patch from Arch to enable support for 2.6.34 kernels." so maybe I try again in the morning.

Btw what fix from above are you talking about?

[cutterjohn]

karmic build is still broken with:

execstack: cannot open "debian/fglrx-amdcccle/usr/lib/bin/amdcccle": No such file or directory

IIRC the "fix" should be in one of the 10.4 threads..

I'm also betting that their CCC privilege escalation app/script is still MIA as well...

why am I not surprised?

[cutterjohn]

fix is here

Also had to edit ati-installer.sh such that the line:

ACTION=$2

to

ACTION=$1