AMD 8.42.3 Driver Released -- The Baby Is Born!

[Michael]

For those with Ubuntu 64-bit problems, below is a link to the updated Ubuntu packaging scripts done by Aric Cyr, which will be found in fglrx 8.43 (along with other updates I imagine). It fixes the 64-bit problem.

http://www.michaellarabel.com/downlo...bian-2.tar.bz2

[oaul]

After installing 8.42 on debian etch, wine 0.9.47 no longer starts:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address (nil) (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00000000).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:00000000 ESP:0033df6c EBP:0033df88 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1)
EAX:ffffffff EBX:7e038aec ECX:ffffffff EDX:0033df78
ESI:00000035 EDI:7d2ef000
Stack dump:
0x0033df6c: 7dfbf8c0 0033df78 7e0a6905 7e038aec
0x0033df7c: 00000000 7e0a6906 00000410 0033dfa8
0x0033df8c: 7d6c8993 7e038aec 7e0a6906 7e0a6906
0x0033df9c: 7e0a6906 7c06fc68 7e12c8ac 0033dfb8
0x0033dfac: 7d64427b 7e0a6906 7e0a6906 0033dfd8
0x0033dfbc: 7db1650e 7e0a6906 7e0a6906 7c06fd20
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00000000 (0x0033df88)

Anyone else having trouble with wine with the new driver?

[Extreme Coder]

Try moving the file into your home directory or something and then try it. It seems like it can't find the file when trying to generate the distro specific package.

Slacker: try using /usr/lib32 as your path and see if something comes out of that.

Sadly, that's not working too.

[[email protected] ~]$ ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Mandriva/2008
Created directory fglrx-install.tS9080
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.42.3....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager 
==================================================
Generating package: Mandriva/2008
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
error: file /home/ahmad/tmp/ati.AZ9169/SOURCES/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run missing: No such file or directory
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.tS9080
[[email protected] ~]$

[Uchikoma]

compiz.real: command not found.

tried without "real" too: same error

Anyone else on gentoo amd64 managed to do this?
Maybe I just forgot something...

Try just compiz --replace and see where that gets you.

[Acrylic]

For those with Ubuntu 64-bit problems, below is a link to the updated Ubuntu packaging scripts done by Aric Cyr, which will be found in fglrx 8.43 (along with other updates I imagine). It fixes the 64-bit problem.

http://www.michaellarabel.com/downlo...bian-2.tar.bz2

Ok but...how can I use it?...I am a bit confused...

[slacker]

Try just compiz --replace and see where that gets you.

that's actually the first thing I tried, but I always keep getting that error...

[SteviOS]

Try installing it manually via method 2 found here:
(uninstall all previous instances of fglrx first, but don't reboot till you finish the manual install)

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

I take it you're using Ubuntu? use --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10 and not running the driver from its GUI installer.

Make sure to block fglrx in the restricted drivers too.

Still mesa instead of ati

fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

Any ideas?

[hoho]

I have this strangest bug for quite some time now, and its the same with this newest version of fglrx. Same goes for different kernels and Xorg versions.

Thing is, X hangs when I try to start a second X, or do Switch User in GNOME. Now the funniest part is, if I start X then close it and start it again, all is fine, I can start a second X simultaniously or do switch user without hanging. Help?

I checked it with vesa and open-source drivers and they both work fine, dont hang.

[Michael]

Ok but...how can I use it?...I am a bit confused...

Extract it to /etc/ati/custom-package and then with the 8.42 package run --buildpkg custom-package/7.10 (or 7.04 for Feisty)

[daniel of sarnia]

compiz is working pretty good for me except from a bit of corruption. Although quake4 freezes and I can get etqw to start but it freezes before the game play start. At lest we are seeing some real progress and in the next few months we might have something stable. Although I don't know if most of my problems are from my card x1900xtx or using feisty instead of gutsy with a newer x.