AMD 8.40.4 Driver -- One Bug A Day Keeps AIGLX Away

[Korri]

Important question - is x86_64 driver finally working properly? Anyone tested this driver under x86_64 machine with FC7? I guess its working fine on i386 FC7?

I just tried 8.40.4 with x86_64 FC7 & X1550 and it didn't work. Patching helped a little, I succeeded starting X once... but now it doesn't work anymore.

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The new driver isn't out yet till later this year.

This doesn't have anything to do with 8.40.* directly, but do you mean a really New driver is coming out some time? I read something like that on this forum a while ago, iirc. I haven't been acquainted with Phoronix for too long (this is my first post), and I don't remember seeing any mention of a properly redone driver in any of the news, like "The state of ATI in 2007".

[Michael]

This doesn't have anything to do with 8.40.* directly, but do you mean a really New driver is coming out some time? I read something like that on this forum a while ago, iirc. I haven't been acquainted with Phoronix for too long (this is my first post), and I don't remember seeing any mention of a properly redone driver in any of the news, like "The state of ATI in 2007".

It's a NEW DRIVER. There's tidbits of information on this new driver in other articles, but beyond that I can't comment any further and you'll just need to stay tuned to Phoronix.

[DarkFoss]

Sigh..well unlike the 8.39's these work fine..no mouse corruption..unfortunately I cannot select
1280x1024..1152x864 is the highest resolution available once again.. back to the 8.38's...

[Svartalf]

It's a NEW DRIVER. There's tidbits of information on this new driver in other articles, but beyond that I can't comment any further and you'll just need to stay tuned to Phoronix.

I am going to confirm that whole statement from start to finish. It's a completely new driver. Any statements beyond that item would be rank supposition on the part of the party making the statement- or it's information that was given under Non-Disclosure.

I'm just of the opinion that it won't be this year that we see the thing, but Q1-Q2 of next, or that if they do get something out it'll be buggy in varying ways and firm up by that time next year.

[chrisr]

Yee haw.

It's a NEW DRIVER.

Does that explain why ATI is stonewalling any customer service request made about the current driver? ATI is refusing to explain the error message:

fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!

in either the 8.39.4 or the 8.40.4 drivers because my FireGL V5250 chip is integrated into a laptop. Without an explanation, I have no chance of getting things working other than hoping each month that the next version will fix things.

Of course, if it weren't integrated into a laptop I'd probably have replaced it with an NVidia chip by now. I wonder - can you put regular graphics cards into docking stations?

[chrisr]

A new driver in 18 months?

I'm just of the opinion that it won't be this year that we see the thing, but Q1-Q2 of next, or that if they do get something out it'll be buggy in varying ways and firm up by that time next year.

18 months is, of course, just a blink of the eye in the computing industry...

[Raven3x7]

I'm just of the opinion that it won't be this year that we see the thing, but Q1-Q2 of next, or that if they do get something out it'll be buggy in varying ways and firm up by that time next year.

I hope they'll release it once its somewhat stable and work on getting it as stable as possible later. Its not like the current driver is a perfect example of a stable driver.

[Michael]

It is this year you will see the new stable driver.

[DarkFoss]

It would be just my luck that they drop support for my x800 agp when they introduce it