Ati miracle :-)

[dopehouse]

Well you need to delete it while X is shut down.

Sorry, thats right. I forgot that.

[monraaf]

I agree it's a miracle driver. They broke the one thing that always used to work flawlessly: suspend/resume

[Kano]

Well you need to delete it while X is shut down.

[dopehouse]

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04) and the catalyst control center shows that I am running FGLRX 10.7 .... ???

Whats going on? Anyone else have this problem?

Just delete the file '/etc/ati/amdpcsdb'. It's save to delete the file, cause it will automatically be regenerated. After that and a reboot, the CCC should not show you any versionstring like 10.?? again, but the 2D and 3D version numbers will show the right numbers now.

[gururise]

I installed Ubuntu 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04) and the catalyst control center shows that I am running FGLRX 10.7 .... ???

Whats going on? Anyone else have this problem?

[dopehouse]

I have a HD5770 in my desktop pc and a Mobility HD3200 in my notebook. With both I have no video problems (no tearing or jerking). The only problem that I sometimes have is, that HoN sometimes start to be very slow, if Pidgin blinks for a new message in the background. But I can't recreate this problem, because sometimes the problem is there and sometimes not.

[rldawson]

Thanks for the xorg.conf post. Do you have any problems with video tearing or jerking? Also, what is the type of your video card?

There really does not look like anything out of the ordinary though.

[dopehouse]

Do you have a customized xorg.conf? To date I have not had a fix for these problems. [vidoe tearing, video and game jerking]

This is my whole xorg.conf (I just manually changed the display order)

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "amdcccle Layout"
	Screen      0  "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0" 0 0
	Screen         "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" LeftOf "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "0-DFP2"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "0 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "0-DFP1"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "0 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Default Device"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
	Option	    "Monitor-DFP1" "0-DFP1"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Default Screen"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Virtual   2960 1050
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-0"
	Device     "amdcccle-Device[1]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1"
	Device     "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[rldawson]

The open source driver is the only thing keeping AMD afloat on the linux desktop. It's always been clear ATI only cared about workstation graphics on linux. AMD's efforts to open source the driver have helped Desktop graphics ten fold.

I don't expect the FGLRX userbase to stick around when Gallium3d for r600-r800 is stable and mildly polished.

Hey that's good to know. Currently I am using the radeon driver.

Basically, as I have believed for a long time, the only solution to this problem is to buy another video card and make sure it is a NVIDIA.

[Jecos]

ATi miracle? The only miracle I see here is that no one has committed suicide yet.

ATi drivers are pure FAIL. Stop poking the dead horse already, its not going to get up.

The open source driver is the only thing keeping AMD afloat on the linux desktop. It's always been clear ATI only cared about workstation graphics on linux. AMD's efforts to open source the driver have helped Desktop graphics ten fold.

I don't expect the FGLRX userbase to stick around when Gallium3d for r600-r800 is stable and mildly polished.