AMD 8.42.3 Driver Released -- The Baby Is Born!

[kir?]

anyone having any issues running amdcccle?

I had no problems with 8.40, but for whatever reason it just hangs upon execution with 8.42, never even paints a window, no error messages in terminal either.

yeah, amdcccle never worked on my slackware 12.0

[Scias]

Hi everybody !

I'm french and new here, please be indulgent because i dont speak english very well :S !

I've a RADEON XPRESS 200G (PCIE integrated) and before this release of fglrx 8.42 i used XGL with Compiz Fusion under linux Fedora 7.
XGL is very very slow and i waited this new release for erase compeletely XGL from my drive and play with compiz fusion or games (ut2004) !
When i saw fglrx 8.42, i immediatly downloaded it and installing it with --buildpkg command.
When restarting, i checked if fglrx has started and it has :

[root@localhost Scias]# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

[root@localhost Scias]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
....
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release
OpenGL extensions:
.....

I tried a "glxgears" and it is very smoothly than the fglrx 8.40 :

[root@localhost Scias]# glxgears
3885 frames in 5.0 seconds = 976.899 FPS

with fglrx 8.40, i was around 600 FPS.

Then, i tried to launch "fusion-icon" but it's not working !!

[root@localhost Scias]# fusion-icon
* Using the GTK Interface
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
* Searching for installed applications...
/usr/bin/ccsm
/usr/bin/compiz
/usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator
/usr/bin/emerald
/usr/bin/metacity
* gnome session
* Decorator "" is invalid.
... choosing gtk-window-decorator --replace as default decorator
* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap present with direct rendering context
... present with indirect rendering, exporting: LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
* Executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering
/usr/share/fusion-icon/interface_gtk.py:238: GtkWarning: Icon cache '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache' is invalid

gtk.main()
/usr/share/fusion-icon/interface_gtk.py:238: GtkWarning: Icon cache '/usr/share/pixmaps/hicolor/icon-theme.cache' is invalid

gtk.main()
compiz (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

And also i tried "fgl_glxgears" and it not work too !

[root@localhost Scias]# fgl_glxgears
Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate)
Serial number of failed request: 41
Current serial number in output stream: 42

AMDCCCLE is working and it says that i'm running on fglrx 8.42.3 (no problem)

my Xorg.conf (I tried enabling composite and AIGLX in xorg.conf but no results)

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "fr"
	Option	    "XkbVariant" "latin9"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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

I'm on Fedora 7 on kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
ATI XPRESS 200G

Can somebody help me please ?

[rbmorse]

IT WORRRRKKKKSSSS!

Ubuntu 7.10. X1950XTX. Haven't found anything that doesn't work. I did have to add fglrx to the driver whitelist in /usr/bin/compiz before Compiz would start.

Not a benchmakrk glxgears reports 11099FPS, which is about 1% better than 8.41.7, which in turn was about 3% slower than 8.38.X

[ecm@access]

Fun with 8.42/Ubuntu 7.10/X1300

Okay, installed manually (with apt-get install -f to fix my previous driver install) and got incredible performance...but fglrxinfo killed the X server.

Reinstalled using GUI installer - which killed the drivers completely.

Uninstalled everything, rebooted and reinstalled, ran aticonfig commands and enabled composite in xorg.conf.

Modest increase in fps and no desktop effects.

glxgears -info:

10643 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2128.420 FPS
10659 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2131.615 FPS
10667 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2133.226 FPS

fglrxinfo:

ecm@svecmlnx:/etc/X11$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 Release

xorg.conf(edited for clarity):

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
EndSection

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

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "1"
EndSection

Did I forget anything?

[rbmorse]

IT WORRRRKKKKSSSS!

Ubuntu 7.10. X1950XTX. Haven't found anything that doesn't work. I did have to add fglrx to the driver whitelist in /usr/bin/compiz before Compiz would start.

Not a benchmakrk glxgears reports 11099FPS, which is about 1% better than 8.41.7, which in turn was about 3% slower than 8.38.X

Oh wait...I have the Xv flickers with video playback. Setting mplayer to X11 works good, though.

[Z1Kenobi]

compiz don work with me but on my debian / testing compiz 0.5.2 i dont have any whitelist in /usr/bin/compiz.
should i add it

[Septor]

For Ubuntu/Debian users:


64bit package generation is broken. My bad. I didn't get the updated scripts to AMD in time for inclusion in 8.42. I think the workaround was posted already here.

32bit packages should be OK though.

[adamk]

I run 10.3 64-bit, I don't get your error but it doesn't run. (see my earlier posts)

Well I finally managed to get direct rendering working. But compiz won't start with the same GLXFBConfig error many others here are reporting.

Adam

[qdlaty]

I confirm, 8.42.3 is working fine with x1600 at Ubuntu Gutsy x86_64 but:
video flickers a lot (I can live with X11 settings)
all GL apps flicker and that's killing me - I could live without GoogleEarth, games etc. but I need this to work with VariCAD 3D and that makes me to return to 8.40.

Anytime someone will find fix for GL apps I'll return to 8.42 immediately.

[Scias]

Despite my bugs & problems with compiz fusion and fgl_glxgears, ut2004 is very playable with default settings !

I tried fglrx in a older kernel but same errors....

I'm desperated !