ATI Catalyst 10.8 For Linux Brings OpenGL ES 2.0

[NomadDemon]

firefox isnt gtk based, it have it own engine for rendering window

today i recorded my drum solo

http://nomaddemon.wrzuta.pl/audio/2g9gjVgRxva/hydra_solo1

electric ocropad
bas, drums, and "keys" played with drumsticks on it
all made on electric drums

[kernelOfTruth]

ok, why do I have the impression that the part-of-the-screen-is-black problem with gtk-based apps (especially with firefox) just got much worse with firefox

[gukin]

Mandriva 2010.1 and annoying black box fix.

Catalyst 10.8 built just fine on Mandriva 2010.1 using sh ati-driver-installer-10-8-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Mandriva/2010.1.

Starting X complained about it's inability to load libfglrxdrm but, following the instructions, and initializing X with XFdrake then running aticonfig --initial --force, I was able to bring up x.

From there, I used "sudo aticcclesu" to configure my eyefinity triple-head setup and got my 3600x1600 display going (three 1600x1200 rotated 90 degrees) I, once again, saw the dreaded black boxes in Firefox so I did a "sudo service dm stop" and, from a console (ctrl-alt-F1), as root, ran "aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE" which causes the 2D acceleration to revert to XAA instead of the broken 2D acceleration.

It all works, as well as 10.7 but nothing extra seems to be broken.

As for the trolls, cry and whine all you like but ATI is at least trying and IS making progress. None of the three-headed cards from nVidia and Intel work as well and aticccle is head and shoulders above nVidia's configuration screen.

[NomadDemon]

i did uninstall, and used opensource drivers for 3 days

[chefkoch]

The control center seems to get the version from /etc/ati/amdpcsdb. If you delete the file before updating the driver it should show the correct one. Overwriting it with /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default will probably work too. Both have to be done while X isn't running.

As for this update. Maybe I'm imagining things but there seem to be fewer artifacts now when running with 2d acceleration but no compositing.

[NomadDemon]

yes. he is nice guy.

all the things i posted here, are problems, to let know opensource guys to dont copy them

and. whats about 5xxx series? they gave you 100% of driver or just a part? can you make a 4xxx drivers based on this code?

[mirv]

cmon.. bridgman? we call you, help us

He is part of the open source driver group, and is not available for troubleshooting user problems with fglrx. He sometimes helps of his own accord (because he's a nice guy) but demanding that he come and help is really not appropriate.

[NomadDemon]

cmon.. bridgman? we call you, help us

[blindfrog]

There seems to be some issues with RDR since half of the time opengl apps and as a video output causes annoying flickering with Kwin effects on

[kernelOfTruth]

everybody migrate to Ubuntu for instant fixing of ALL bugs

*runs and hides*


@AMD/ATI:

now you see how stupid that is to mainly focus ONLY on those distributions, please also consider the other bugs

in 99% it works fine for me:
Gentoo, amd64, Gnome 2.30, compiz-fusion, firefox, chromium ^^