AMD ATI fglrx 8.32.5 Released

[liqor_mortis]

I hadn't considered that, so just I tried using the ATI installer directly. It didn't solve the problems I was having although it installed the driver successfully, but it did give me an interesting error message on starting the installer:

X Server: Unknown X Window

Is that relating to the xorg version or the X display currently running? The installer was also looking for a couple of files in the temporary fglrx-install directory which weren't there:

cp: cannot stat `x710_64a/usr/X11R6/bin/*': No such file or directory
find: install/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel: No such file or directory

[Michael]

I hadn't considered that, so just I tried using the ATI installer directly. It didn't solve the problems I was having although it installed the driver successfully, but it did give me an interesting error message on starting the installer:

X Server: Unknown X Window

Is that relating to the xorg version or the X display currently running? The installer was also looking for a couple of files in the temporary fglrx-install directory which weren't there:

cp: cannot stat `x710_64a/usr/X11R6/bin/*': No such file or directory
find: install/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel: No such file or directory

The ATI graphical installer is rather problematic at this time with newer distributions and wouldn't be recommended for use at this time. However, the --buildpkg command is handy except there are no bundled Gentoo packaging scripts in the official driver.

Your best bet would probably be to contact the maintainer of the Gentoo ATI packages.

[numerodix]

The fglrx 8.32.5 display driver themselves have absolutely no compatibility problems with the X1000 series. If anything, it is likely an issue with the Gentoo packaging scripts specifically.

Well I did try the driver using the ATI installer and that gave the same result. Is the driver working on other distros with the same card?

[Michael]

Well I did try the driver using the ATI installer and that gave the same result. Is the driver working on other distros with the same card?

You're one of the first people I have heard claiming the 8.32.5 driver is broken. I have used it dozens of times already on Fedora, and I know many have it working with Ubuntu, and I know SuSE is also working fine with these drivers.

[vdgraaf]

same problem as above

I have an identiocatl problem as above...on a brand new Fedora 6 install.
The ATI installer fails to detect what version of X I have...

I tried generating the rpm-s but I got another error:
RPM build errors:
File not found: /tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.32.5-1-7606-root/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.32.5-1.fc6-root-root/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel

Any idea how to fix it?

[Fragadelic]

You need to build the packages like so and install them after:

ati-driver-installer-8.32.5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/FC6

[Michael]

I have an identiocatl problem as above...on a brand new Fedora 6 install.
The ATI installer fails to detect what version of X I have...

I tried generating the rpm-s but I got another error:
RPM build errors:
File not found: /tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.32.5-1-7606-root/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.32.5-1.fc6-root-root/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel

Any idea how to fix it?

If you run into fireglcontrol panel problems, see: http://phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=318

[vdgraaf]

I've installed the ATI RPM from livna and everything went fine..but still not 3d acceleration.

I have the same xorg.conf as the sample posted here:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
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"
Option "UseShm" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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

The lsmmod fglrx is showing the module installed.
Modprobe fglrx shows no errors.
The ATI control panel works but shows the MESA driver.

..what else can I do?

[Michael]

Does your /var/log/Xorg.0.log show any errors? (Look for EE)

[vdgraaf]

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib64/dri/f
glrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_add_entrypoint)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

..YEP..this seems to the problem. The AIGLX doesn work..but how to fix it?