AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

It's taken quite a while, but AMD has finally delivered support for the Linux 2.6.29 kernel within their Catalyst driver. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzQ2Mw

[blindfrog]

Great! Finally I can switch to F11 repos and do yum upgrade

[RealNC]

Seems to work OK in Gentoo with kernel 2.6.30-r5. Resizing/maximizing problem still there. The mplayer (gl backend) GUI corruption in KDE4 with desktop effects enabled problems seem to have been fixed though; haven't seen any menus and buttons in SMPlayer going missing/replaced with garbage yet.

[rafi]

No change with Xv+Composite, but one thing is cool. I ran Street Fighter 4 benchmark with wine 1.1.26. Before my computer froze when I changed the resolution of the test, now it is ok. Still not playable (image is flickering) but it is a good step forward.

[d2kx]

No change with Xv+Composite, but one thing is cool. I ran Street Fighter 4 benchmark with wine 1.1.26. Before my computer froze when I changed the resolution of the test, now it is ok. Still not playable (image is flickering) but it is a good step forward.

What problems do you experience with Xv+Composite?

[rafi]

Well, like with the 9.7, the image get blurred when the window of the video player is on the left of the screen and the video is black after minimizing the video player (vlc and smplayer tested). To get the image back I just have to resize the window, so there is no real problem with Xv+composite, I just wanted to say that it didn't get better. Anyway the little improvement in wine is cool.

[gsacks]

Ho-hum. No XvBA support. So glad I switched to Nvidia for my HTPC. My 780g board is now relegated to the living room web browser 'net top'. Glad to see AMD making progress, but the lack of accelerated video support on par with VDPAU is really just sad at this point. Just sad. I'll say it again. Sad.

[cruiseoveride]

91.7mb? Don't you just love to hate AMD/ATi

[m4rgin4l]

Yeeeeey!...NOT.

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

It's taken quite a while, but AMD has finally delivered support for the Linux 2.6.29 kernel within their Catalyst driver. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzQ2Mw

After a couple of minor adjustments to my system to ditch the default Fedora setup for radeon (blacklist, mkinitrd, etc.) I managed to install the driver and it worked for almost A WHOLE MINUTE before hanging the system. NICE. FANTASTIC. AWESOME.

Great work guys, thanks!

[Tares]

Okay, I've done fast tests comparing 9.7 and 9.8, here are the results :

glxgears :
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fglrx 9.7 :
53380 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10675.902 FPS
52212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10442.344 FPS
54455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10890.948 FPS
54634 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10926.746 FPS
54642 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10928.370 FPS

fglrx 9.8 :
53251 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10650.068 FPS
53398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10679.592 FPS
53512 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10702.357 FPS
53515 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10702.912 FPS
52923 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10584.525 FPS
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fgl_glxgears :
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fglrx 9.7 :
16354 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3270.800 FPS
14017 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2803.400 FPS
16523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3304.600 FPS
14438 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2887.600 FPS
15332 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3066.400 FPS

fglrx 9.8 :
16568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3313.600 FPS
16774 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3354.800 FPS
16844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3368.800 FPS
15977 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3195.400 FPS
16838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3367.600 FPS
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q3a :
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fglrx 9.7 :
840.0 fps
772.1 fps
833.3 fps
807.3 fps
802.5 fps

fglrx 9.8 :
660.1 fps
751.4 fps
825.7 fps
705.5 fps
537.5 fps
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hon :
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fglrx 9.7 :
~60 in game

fglrx 9.8 :
~80 in game :
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tropics 1.2 aax2 :
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fglrx 9.7 :
30.8 fps
776 score

fglrx 9.8 :
38.0 fps
957 score
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Okay, but don't get your hopes too high :/ although tropics improved quite a lot, but that because I've got errors in rendering :/ whole benchmark was missing water and screen was flickering before I've turned aa on so something is wrong with this drivers.

As for hon, well i've measured it durning a game play, so it's not really reliable because I wasn't watching the fps all the time, but I think there is a little improvement.

My system and rig :
ubuntu 9.04 amd64
[email protected]
HD4850@stock
4GB DDR2-900

Can anyone test unigine tropics ? I'll try sanctuary now.

EDIT :
okay, I've tested few things with tropics and found out that first run gives me like 0-4fps and screen corruption (blue and black lanes). But when I change to aax2, everything is looking fine, only water is missing... BUT... when I turn on aax4 or more everything is fine ;o no screen flickering, no corruption, water is perfect... ;x it has to be driver thing :x