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    I've been trying to install fglrx for the last few days without success. At first I thought it had something to do with xorg-edgers leaving something behind after a purge which prevented the installation from working, but after a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 fglrx still won't run. The clean installation of Ubuntu allows jockey to install the drivers although fglrx still refuses to function properly.

    Operating system: Ubuntu 10.10 (clean installation)
    Hardware: R600 class hardware
    Compositing: disabled
    Error: X crashes when fglrx is loaded.

    I tested loading fglrx with "aticonfig --initial", "aticonfig --initial=dual-head" and with the xorg.conf file generated by jokey. No luck whatsoever. I even tested the pre-release version. It's almost like I'm the only one having troubles considered that fglrx 10.10 is being called a miracle driver and so on.

    Any ideas?

  • #2
    Are you running with one or two displays ?

    Are you running aticonfig as root/sudo, and have you tried aticonfig --initial -f ?

    (I forget if you need 1 or 2 dashes in front of the f, check aticonfig -help)
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    • #3
      Two displays. I did try with one display disconnected before I decided to restart with a fresh installation of Ubuntu.

      I'm running aticonfig as root.

      I don't think I've tried the -f option yet.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by bridgman View Post
        Are you running with one or two displays ?

        Are you running aticonfig as root/sudo, and have you tried aticonfig --initial -f ?

        (I forget if you need 1 or 2 dashes in front of the f, check aticonfig -help)
        --initial -f didn't make any difference. Still crashes.

        Originally posted by Qaridarium
        in the past there are some reports of packages failing...

        try the installer direct install without creating packages...

        others bring the drivers in that way to run.
        I tried it before and I tried it again just in case and unfortunately, it still crashes.


        My last attempt included stopping the gdm service prior to the install.

        Highlights from Xorg.0.log | grep fglrx
        Code:
        [     2.944] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
        [     2.944] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
        [     2.959] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
        [     2.960] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
        [     2.960] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
        [     2.960] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
        [     2.960] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
        [     2.960] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:17:0) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:0) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:1) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:2) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:0) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:1) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:2) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:0) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:1) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:2) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:3) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:4) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:5) found
        [     2.964] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
        [     2.964] (II) fglrx(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x12084f0
        [     2.964] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_x760_atiddxPreInit] === begin
        [     2.965] (**) fglrx(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
        [     2.965] (II) fglrx(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
        [     2.965] (==) fglrx(0): Default visual is TrueColor
        [     2.965] (**) fglrx(0): Option "DPMS" "true"
        [     2.965] (==) fglrx(0): RGB weight 888
        [     2.965] (II) fglrx(0): Using 8 bits per RGB 
        [     2.965] (==) fglrx(0): Buffer Tiling is ON
        [     2.965] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
        [     2.965] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
        [     2.966] (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
        [     2.968] (==) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
        [     2.968] (==) fglrx(0): ATI 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
        [     2.968] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT" (Chipset = 0x9588)
        [     2.968] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1787, PciSubDevice = 0x2003)
        [     2.968] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT original ATI
        [     2.968] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xd0000000
        [     2.968] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xfeaf0000
        [     2.968] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x0000d000
        [     2.968] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
        [     2.969] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
        [     2.976] (II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA BIOS detected
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI ATOMBIOS
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 10.58
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: (C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc. 
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: RV630
        [     3.072] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
        [     3.137] (II) fglrx(0): ATI Video BIOS revision 9 or later detected
        [     3.137] (--) fglrx(0): Video RAM: 262144 kByte, Type: DDR3
        [     3.137] (II) fglrx(0): PCIE card detected
        [     3.137] (--) fglrx(0): Using per-process page tables (PPPT) as GART.
        [     3.137] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
        [     3.138] (II) fglrx(0): Using adapter: 1:0.0.
        [     3.179] (II) fglrx(0): [FB] MC range(MCFBBase = 0xc0000000, MCFBSize = 0x10000000)
        [     3.186] (II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 45.
        [     3.186] (II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 support is enabled!
        [     3.186] (II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 rotation support is enabled!
        [     3.186] (==) fglrx(0): Center Mode is disabled 
        [     3.186] (==) fglrx(0): Active stereo disabled
        [     4.378] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f60ee3f1000+0x4429e1) [0x7f60ee8339e1]
        [     4.378] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f60ee3f1000+0x442554) [0x7f60ee833554]
        [     4.378] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (PP_Tables_Initialize+0xd6) [0x7f60ee831f16]
        [     4.378] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (PHM_Initialize+0xb0) [0x7f60ee81c750]
        [     4.379] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f60ee3f1000+0x42b199) [0x7f60ee81c199]
        [     4.379] 8: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (PP_Initialize+0x28) [0x7f60ee81be88]
        [     4.379] 9: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (swlPPLibInitializePowerPlay+0x7c) [0x7f60ee7e6e7c]
        [     4.379] 10: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (swlPPLibInit+0x3f) [0x7f60ee7e751f]
        [     4.379] 11: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xilDisplayAdaptorCreate+0xbb) [0x7f60ee7d70ab]
        [     4.380] 12: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_x760_atiddxDisplayPreInit+0x887) [0x7f60ee7ca117]
        [     4.380] 13: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_x760_atiddxPreInit+0x895) [0x7f60ee79f575]
        Highlights from dmesg | grep fglrx
        Code:
        [    2.426209] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
        [    2.548761] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 3800 MBytes.
        [    2.548895] [fglrx]   vendor: 1002 device: 9588 count: 1
        [    2.550830] [fglrx] ioport: bar 4, base 0xd000, size: 0x100
        [    2.551127] [fglrx] Kernel PAT support is enabled
        [    2.551151] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.78.30 [Sep 20 2010] with 1 minors
        [    3.185427] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [    3.185982] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1287
        [    3.186143] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [    4.381723] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled
        [    4.639354] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [    4.639904] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1313
        [    4.640077] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [    5.841290] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled
        [    6.093004] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [    6.093554] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1324
        [    6.093708] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [    7.295120] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled
        [    7.532271] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [    7.532823] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1332
        [    7.532977] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [    8.733580] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled
        [    8.986033] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [    8.986544] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1348
        [    8.986751] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [   10.188027] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled
        [   10.411112] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
        [   10.411659] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 1380
        [   10.411814] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Enabled
        [   11.612432] [fglrx] IRQ 45 Disabled

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        • #5
          When you say "stopping gdm before installing" wouldn't you have had to do that when uninstalling the previous driver, or were you running the VESA driver etc.. ? Installing a new driver without uninstalling the previous one and rebooting sometimes works but no guarantees.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by bridgman View Post
            When you say "stopping gdm before installing" wouldn't you have had to do that when uninstalling the previous driver, or were you running the VESA driver etc.. ? Installing a new driver without uninstalling the previous one and rebooting sometimes works but no guarantees.
            The open source driver supplied by Ubuntu kicks in after fglrx has been uninstalled and the system has been rebooted.

            It's almost disturbing how well r600c works except for OpenGL greater than 2.1.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Silverthorn View Post
              Two displays.
              You're in for a treat if you ever get fglrx installed.

              P.S. That was sarcastic.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Silverthorn View Post
                It's almost like I'm the only one having troubles considered that fglrx 10.10 is being called a miracle driver and so on.
                You're not alone. The miracle driver also crashes my X on startup :/ It does so whether I use my second screen or not. I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. Can't get you the log because I tried a while ago and of course immediately reverted back to the working driver. Just wanted to let you know that you're not the only one who can't join the praise.

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                • #9
                  Hi guys,
                  I was suffering the same issue on a HD5770 after upgrading to ubuntu 10.10, fixed it by doing the following:
                  sudo stop gdm
                  sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
                  sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx-modaliases
                  sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
                  sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core
                  sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
                  sudo rm -r /etc/ati/
                  After cleaning all fglrx files, I uninstalled every old kernel headers I had, and then rebooted. Xorg was working again with some default 2d driver (probably vesa).
                  Going to "restricted drivers" detected again fglrx drivers to be available, and just did the normal install procedure. Everything was working again.

                  Hope this helps!

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                  • #10
                    After some more experiments I've found that using Ubuntu 10.04, the last working catalyst driver is 10.4.Anything newer than 10.6 will crash X on start up. 10.5 and 10.6 works but seams to lack support for textures altogether and is just horrible to look at.

                    I've managed to install fglrx 10.4 on Ubuntu 10.04 together with kernel version 2.6.35. It seams to be working for basic 3D though I get the feeling that the driver somehow fails to render textures on an orthographic projection when more advanced features is used.

                    It seams that I'm out of luck using fglrx.

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