Unreleased ATI Catalyst Driver Appears In Ubuntu

[Kano]

Did somebody ever try to play a video with a res like 1280x536 which shows about a 8 pixel green bar. xv seems to work only when the res % 16 is 0.

[bridgman]

Yep, just to be clear, the Ubuntu driver is an early branch off what will become the 9.4 release, not the final 9.4 release itself.

[PuckPoltergeist]

Yay!, 9.4 doesn't work with kernel 2.6.29. Huuray for AMD and their great "Linux" "support". When are you guys going to support Linux and not some distributions?

What are you complaning about? 9.4 isn't released yet.

[kensai]

Yay!, 9.4 doesn't work with kernel 2.6.29. Huuray for AMD and their great "Linux" "support". When are you guys going to support Linux and not some distributions?

[dgrafenhofer]

Well you have to reboot on opensuse then when you dont do

rmmod radeon drm

I always reboot after installing catalyst, so this should not be the issue.

Now I also tried to remove /etc/ati on opensuse before installing the 9.2 version of catalyst... still crashes...

[Kano]

Well you have to reboot on opensuse then when you dont do

rmmod radeon drm

before starting X. Somethigs even this has problems, therefore my script has a lesser known option called -z which would require a reboot.

[dgrafenhofer]

Did you really use
...
before installing new driver?

Strictly speaking "no", but in effect I guess "yes":

On opensuse 11.1 I installed the 8.12 on toa clean install (without any proprietary driver). There should not be any files under /etc/ati in this situation.

On ubuntu 8.10 I called the uninstall script under /usr/share/ati and performed a reboot before installing the new driver. I also tried your install script under ubuntu (which calls "rm -rf /etc/ati").

[Kano]

It is not removed the old file by default. Did you really use

/etc/init.d/atieventsd stop
/etc/init.d/gdm stop

rmmod fglrx

or similar and then

rm -rf /etc/ati

before installing new driver?

[dgrafenhofer]

Some bugs are because of the /etc/ati/amdpcsdb file which usually written on X shutdown. ... That's the problem with running X -> GUI update is not always the best.

I tried to install with and without the X-server running. Unfortunately this did not solve the crash on the startup of X.

Dominik

[Kano]

Some bugs are because of the /etc/ati/amdpcsdb file which usually written on X shutdown. When you update the driver while X is running then it would not help to remove it on update as a new file is written on shutdown. That's the problem with running X -> GUI update is not always the best. At least this kind of error can be avoided when you run a script from text console - or extra tricky using nohup.