AMD Catalyst Linux 12.6 Beta Has Arrived

[Hirager]

just tell me why not just fix the dynamic automatic power managment in the radeon driver?

It's just not THAT easy to do, is it? I hope that it will be taken care of when the RadeonSI driver is brought up to other Radeon drivers' level.

[acer]

You can't set profiles in the xorg conf; are you sure you are following :

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#KMS_Power_Management_Options

ie :

- check to make sure the /sys paths mentioned below are present and tweak the commands if necessary
- echo "profile" to /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
- echo "low" or "mid" to /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

That is what I do, use "low", but still only get an hour +, instead of two and a half with fglrx

[Morgan00]

same for me.. the clock rates is low according to "low profile" but it overheats still a lot..!

[Gusar]

Just checking...

When you guys talk about "overheating", do you actually mean the machine shuts down because the temp exceeds a threshold, or is the laptop simply hotter but otherwise functional?

[Morgan00]

no shutdown. but not really functionnal for a laptop which has (with FOSS driver) half time battery and 10-15 degrees Celcius more on idle than Catalyst driver :/

[Khudsa]

Verified that weird crash on debian wheezy with xserver 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.1.902. As it was a beta, i want a 2nd one...

Installed on my Debian SID, also upgraded the xserver to 1.12.902 on the upgrade and fglrx doesn't work. It keeps with a cursor blinking after gdm3 load, and in the xorg log file it apears "no free vt" error. Is that the crash do you say?

[TobiSGD]

Just checking...

When you guys talk about "overheating", do you actually mean the machine shuts down because the temp exceeds a threshold, or is the laptop simply hotter but otherwise functional?

Depends on what you call functional. With the fglrx drivers I usually have about 45?C CPU temperature on idle and about 65-70?C under heavy load. With the radeon drivers I get 60?C minimum and under heavy load the CPU goes up to 85-90?C. This does not shut down the system, but it is not healthy at all, so I wouldn't call that functional.

[pandev92]

The radeond driver is very problematic, first of all the temperature is very high than the binary driver, I get 92 degrees with my laptop hp pavilion dv6 2120, but when I use catalyst driver I get 71/82 degrees. The second problem is that the driver radeon don't had a video aceleration like xvba-video, For me that I have an amd x2 is impossible to watch a movie 1080p with the radeon driver

[Kano]

@Khudsa

You see a bit more in the log file, but the result is of course no X running. I installed a 32 bit system to compare and there X starts with xserver 1.12. I want a new beta with debian 64 bit support, kernel 3.4/3.5 support and maybe with dx10 hardware pci ids... btw. in the debian fglrx packaging a valid signature file was added, so when you run a 32 bit system you will not see a testing watermark. The problematic part is still that sometimes the control file is only for consumer hardware but not for the workstation (firegl) ones. I can accept a whitelist which is exactly the same for the fglrx kernel module for amdcccle and the (useless) control file but not when there are only a subset of the ids. The driver is generic by nature, it usually works even when amd did not test it - and when they tested it it does not mean that the driver is bug free anyway. So just an extra annoying thing than something useful. No win user ever saw a watermark with a beta driver, there even those drivers are promoted in

http://twitter.com/#!/catalystcreator

i think it was the first time that the linux driver link was on the same beta page, usually they called it hotfix for whatever.

[Khudsa]

I want that driver too Kano, an xserver 1.12, amd64 compatible one...

By the way, the error I say is this:

Fatal server error:
[    80.563] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT