ATI fglrx 8.31.5 Display Drivers

[Michael]

I only got it because the ASUS P5W DH has Crossfire support. But getting that to work in Linux....I don't think I even want to try.

The fglrx drivers do not support CrossFire nor will they anytime in the near future.

[afterburntdw]

Thank you for that information. It helps me to make my decision about video cards.

Just out of curiosity, where do you find the detailed information about the changes in each driver release?

[presdec]

Problems with ATI 9600

I firstly installed the drivers from livna through yum with no problems, it was not untill i ran ATI Control that i realized i was still using MESA, i googled my problem and came across your instructions. I followeed them to the letter but no matter what i did it always failed. THe most recent problem was the firecontrol. odly enough without knowing what exactly it was i did that fixed it that is know gone and the ATI control panel works fine detecting my ATI Radeon 9600 without problems but the Vendor for the driver is still Mesa 1.2(1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

fglrxinfo give me the following

Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

My Xorg reads as follows

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1600x1200"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Is there a way of completely uninstalling the fglrx drivers from yum and also the onse i installed from your instructions under the hope that a fresh start might work better? Or a way to remove mesa or at least pass over control to ATI instead of MESA?

I've already looked through the various posts and have found none of the sollutions to suit me.

Any ideas would be much apreciated.

[email protected]

[Michael]

yum remove <package names> is able to uninstall the RPMs for you. After that try to run the installer manually.

Does your X log show any relevant information to this problem?

[presdec]

(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(II) GLX: Initialized MESA-PROXY GL provider for screen 0

[presdec]

(II) fglrx(0): driver needs X.org 7.1.x.y with x.y >= 0.0
(II) fglrx(0): detected X.org 7.1.1.0
(II) Loading extension ATIFGLRXDRI
(II) fglrx(0): doing DRIScreenInit
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 7, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 7
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
drmOpenDevice: Open failed

[presdec]

hope these help...

[Michael]

Were there any errors? (EE)

[presdec]

(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

also

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

[glussier]

(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

also

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

Add the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection