ati catalyst 10.6 released

[Minigun]

Reading the comments about resizing being faster: does this mean one doesn't need the 107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch anymore? (Maximizing/resizing has always been instant for me with that patch applied.)

[balihb]

"I have no effects. I'm using xfce with composition disabled completely. "

thats the problem... the catalyst do have a fokus on massiv 3D-desktop effects...

try to activate compositing and more Desktop effects..

I had no problem with 10-5. Wasting processing time on desktop effects can't be the solution.

[d2kx]

Reading the comments about resizing being faster: does this mean one doesn't need the 107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch anymore?

Yes. 10 characters.

[vvk1]

Hmm, catalyst 10.6 crashes xserver on my notebook on switch to runlevel 5 after reboot. openSUSE 11.2/x86_64 with ATI Radeon HD 3650 on a Dell Studio 1737.

0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4ef6f6]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x6f) [0x48942f]
2: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x7fdbe48bf560]
3: /usr/bin/Xorg(StringToBusType+0x28) [0x47f218]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86ParsePciBusString+0x35) [0x4829c5]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86ComparePciBusString+0x2e) [0x482c3e]
6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//drivers/fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbe+0x8b3) [0x7fdbe2c032c3]
7: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86CallDriverProbe+0xd9) [0x46c8f9]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg(InitOutput+0x2ff) [0x46dd4f]
9: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x1fe) [0x4337ae]
10: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fdbe48aba7d]
11: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x432de9]

Full details at:

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836

Catalyst 10.5 worked without a single glitch ...

Anyone else have this issue?

[dsmithhfx]

Hi,

I am downloading the new driver, however when going through the drop-down menu on amd.com to choose drivers I noticed that Radeon HD agp cards only list Windows drivers. The PCIE HD cards include linux.

Has Linux driver support for Radeon HD agp cards been dropped?

Thanks

[balihb]

"Wasting processing time on desktop effects can't be the solution"

ok get option B activate XAA acceleration. or use gnome... 10-6 is most testet on gnome.

Same problem with gnome. The only difference is that the boxes are not black, but white.

[rohcQaH]

I didn't notice any graphical corruption on kde3 so far. fglrx 10.6, HD5770, kernel 2.6.32, Xorg 1.7.6.

fan-less+notebooks/netbook ??? wow,,, in my dreams!

<ot>
There are at least two fan-less netbooks on the market. Both use intel-CPUs (atom) and have glossy displays, and I'm not touching that. But they exist.

My current notebook is on the brink of death due to a semi-dead and unreplaceable fan (possibly induced by higher-than-intended load to mask a defective nvidia GPU), which means two out of three notebooks became unusable because of a fan. I'd like to prevent my next purchase from suffering the same fate.
</ot>

[Exopaladin]

Same problem with gnome. The only difference is that the boxes are not black, but white.

Grey for me with Gnome

[balihb]

Grey for me with Gnome

It is changing for me on every X restart.

[spoilerhead]

10.6 is one big pile of fail for me, the worst driver in ages

using dual screen desktop on hd4870 @ ubuntu 9.10 64 bit:
- second screen stays black (but mouse cursor shows)
or
- no composite (fallback to metacity)

also, dmesg shows lots of failures:

dmesg |grep -i fglrx
[ 34.255791] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 34.287577] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 7768 MBytes.
[ 34.287690] [fglrx] vendor: 1002 device: 9440 count: 1
[ 34.287909] [fglrx] ioport: bar 4, base 0xee00, size: 0x100
[ 34.288038] [fglrx] Kernel PAT support is enabled
[ 34.288054] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.74.4 [May 27 2010] with 1 minors
[ 37.342690] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 302.760174] [fglrx:__mc_heap_map_virtual_space] *ERROR* Failed to map the virtual space
[ 302.760178] [fglrx:mc_heap_alloc_reserved_mem] *ERROR* Can not get virtual address for this reserved range
[ 302.760180] [fglrx:MCIL_AllocateMemory] *ERROR* Can not allocate requested local FB memory
[ 302.760182] [fglrx:__gart_init] *ERROR* Gps_GartInitialization failed.
[ 302.760184] [fglrx:gal_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize gal
[ 302.760186] [fglrx:mc_heap_init] *ERROR* Fail to initialize GAL
[ 302.760187] [fglrx:firegl_init_pcie] *ERROR* GAL initialization failure
[ 385.143093] [fglrx:__mc_heap_map_virtual_space] *ERROR* Failed to map the virtual space
[ 385.143097] [fglrx:mc_heap_alloc_reserved_mem] *ERROR* Can not get virtual address for this reserved range
[ 385.143099] [fglrx:MCIL_AllocateMemory] *ERROR* Can not allocate requested local FB memory
[ 385.143101] [fglrx:__gart_init] *ERROR* Gps_GartInitialization failed.
[ 385.143103] [fglrx:gal_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize gal
[ 385.143104] [fglrx:mc_heap_init] *ERROR* Fail to initialize GAL
[ 385.143106] [fglrx:firegl_init_pcie] *ERROR* GAL initialization failure

i'm back to 10.3, which works fine for me
if anyone knows how to get dual screen working with compiz on, please tell me