AMD 8.41.7 Display Driver Released -- The Holy Crap Edition!

[Thetargos]

If the codebase is new, how comes that there are exact the same bugs in it?

Not all is completely new, most likely the lowlevel bits (hence the performance boost) are new, but the X bits may very well be pretty much the same. Fact is, we don't and can't know for sure.

[billybore]

buildpkg Fedora/F7

from root:
./ati..... --buildpkg Fedora/F7

then install all the rpms

then correctly change the xorg.conf:

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

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

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

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

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

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
Option "DPMS" "true"
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
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection


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


And then restart, and .... no graphical boot

And obviously suspend don't work, when I try to suspend the system hang for 20 sec and then return on my desktop.

Compliments to ATI, new code, AH!AH!AH!AH!AH! Are they joking with us.

And now I switch another time to radeon driver, that aren't super (no good 3D perf, compiz-fusion works but freeze sometimes due to graph card perf, but good and fast 2D perf, graph boot and suspend/resume works

[Michael]

output! what's wrong?

RPM build errors:
    File not found by glob: /tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.41.7-1-21724-hoenny/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.41.7-1.f7-root-hoenny/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/*
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.v21651

Shit, okay, that's a bug in the RPM SPEC file for x86_64 that I overlooked in the packaging script. You can correct it in the packages/Fedora/ SPEC file by adding the line for fglrx_dri.so or by deleting the fglrx_dri.so file after extracting it... I can release new packaging scripts here shortly. fglrx_dri.so was replaced in 8.41 as a dummy file late in the cycle.

[billybore]

and my games crash, and I can't see the performance improvments, but sorry.... I see a performance improvment my 3D screensaver works fast, yeah!!! a screensaver work, I repeat a screensaver not a stupid game

[Stormking]

Not all is completely new, most likely the lowlevel bits (hence the performance boost) are new, but the X bits may very well be pretty much the same. Fact is, we don't and can't know for sure.

I thought so. I even expected it. But I still had hope.

[billybore]

and my games crash, and I can't see the performance improvments, but sorry.... I see a performance improvment my 3D screensaver works fast, yeah!!! a screensaver work, I repeat a screensaver not a stupid game

obviously is a joke (I must specify it because you are Anglo-Saxon)

[greg]

Not all is completely new, most likely the lowlevel bits (hence the performance boost) are new,

I'm quite sure the only thing really new is the OpenGL part of the driver, the lowlevel bits (kernel module) and 2D Xorg don't appear to have changed much.

Well, it's a start! Maybe now after fixing the most urgent stuff they can finally work on the other parts of the driver.
What annoys me about it is that I cannot change the display brightness via fn-f9/f10. I have to switch to a text console, change it, and the switch back to X.

(BTW, I have fixed the problem I mentioned earlier, I had forgotten to unload the "drm" module...)

[Thetargos]

I thought so. I even expected it. But I still had hope.

Well, at least they've rolled out the new code-base, which is the important fact here... From what little I have been able to learn in the past week or so (ever since I got off the ATI loop) is that there are still limited resources for driver development, and they have been maintaining two code bases up until this release. It would have been nice if the team could be split into a low-level team and an X11 specific team, but if the [human] resources are scarce, they (I believe) focused on the most important parts (at the time): The core of the driver, the low-level code for better optimization. Now hopefully X11 issues will get fixed and I particularly hope that they don't get fixed one at a time!

[billybore]

Well, at least they've rolled out the new code-base, which is the important fact here... From what little I have been able to learn in the past week or so (ever since I got off the ATI loop) is that there are still limited resources for driver development, and they have been maintaining two code bases up until this release. It would have been nice if the team could be split into a low-level team and an X11 specific team, but if the [human] resources are scarce, they (I believe) focused on the most important parts (at the time): The core of the driver, the low-level code for better optimization. Now hopefully X11 issues will get fixed and I particularly hope that they don't get fixed one at a time!

the [human] resources are scarce?????


I have paid for this notebook and this card video ATI

[Thetargos]

I find it funny that I'm "defending" the developers of the ATI driver, when I in fact use nVidia , but I once was a very frustrated user and had my hopes squashed with every new driver release... Still I hope AMD-ATI will get the drivers right so that there would actually be competition in Linux (at last!)