AMD Catalyst 8.01 Linux Driver

[Wojtek]

Could someone please reply whether it is possible to use AIGLX together with xorg-server-1.4 using these drivers? There is quite a few people waiting for the answer but their questions are being neglected.
Cheers,

Wojtek

[knutbert]

7-12 is working with AIGLX - dont know about 8-1 though

Hi Wojtek,

Could someone please reply whether it is possible to use AIGLX together with xorg-server-1.4 using these drivers?

The only thing I can tell you is that AIGLX is working fine with Catalyst 7-12 and X.org 7.3 (xorg-server-1.4) - that's what I'm currently running.

Catalyst 8-1 is not working for me - but that's not related to AIGLX as far as I can tell.

Regards,
knutbert

[kir?]

Hi friends, I just wanted to report my experience of some days ago. My mb died and so now I'm on p5ld2-x/1333 with e4500 CPU (before was p4g8x with p4 2400).
I had a radeon 9600 and I was forced to change because of the pci-express to a nvidia 7300 GT.
I finally can do everything with my linux box, I'm very happy and I hope you will have the same luck, a day or another, when ati driver will become accettable.
After my negative experience with ATI I think I will never come back to ATI.

[n3Cre0]

Ah finally! Now I can finally upgrade to xorg-server-1.4

[chrisg]

The system is shut down correctly but after turning it on again i get a black screen..

Any ideas/hints?

In /etc/default/acpi-support
change POST_VIDEO=true to POST_VIDEO=false

Cheers,

Chris

[Neithan]

using ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700/64MB

here is my experiance with 8.452 from je_fro's overlay (emerge was without any problem):

++ 580fps -> 620fps in fgl_fglxgears
++ vlc xv module is fine for me now and after all those troubles its fairly adequate (i noticed that vlc crashes no more when i set deinterlacing filter in settings as default option)

[edit]
-- loosing acceleration during usage (after several restarts of applications that use fglrx, i have to reboot to get my preformance back) fgl_fglxgears is droping something like this after every Counter-Strike:Source restart 630fps -> 420fps -> 30fps. I think even restarting fgl_fglxgears makes these errors. well this happens to me with every driver after 8.40.4. looks like some problem with memory.

otput from "dmesg | tail"

[fglrx:firegl_free_mutex] *ERROR* mutex id 0x00000002 not found in mutex list
[fglrx:firegl_free_mutex] *ERROR* mutex id 0x00000004 not found in mutex list
[fglrx:firegl_free_mutex] *ERROR* mutex id 0x00000002 not found in mutex list
[fglrx:firegl_free_mutex] *ERROR* mutex id 0x00000002 not found in mutex list

[/edit]

-- coruption when draging icons on desktop still present (but who cares if system is stabilized)
-- vlc still can't run in opengl module

i am not running compiz and not using suspend or hibernate, after all i emerged ati with acpi flag off now.

here is my device section from xorg.conf maybe someone will be interested:

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

#       Option  "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"                      # compiz
        Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"                   # compiz
        Option "BackingStore" "true"
        Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
#       Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"                      # compiz
#       Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
        Option "CenterMode" "off"
        Option "DisableOvScaler" "no"
        Option "DRI" "true"                                     # compiz
        Option "EnableDepthMoves" "yes"
        Option "EnableHPV" "yes"
        Option "EnableOpaqueOverlayVisual" "yes"
        Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
        Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
        Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
        Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x06419064"
        Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x06419064"
        Option "HWCursor" "On"
        Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
        Option "mtrr" "off"
        Option "no_accel" "no"
        Option "no_dri" "no"
        Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"                            # compiz
        Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
        Option "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
        Option "Stereo" "off"
        Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
        Option "SubPixelOrder" "none"
        Option "TexturedXrender" "true"
        Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
        Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
        Option "VideoOverlay" "on"                              # compiz
        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"                   # watermark (screen corruption) fix
        Option "FSAAEnable" "no"                                # compiz
        Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
        Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
        Option "FSAAScale" "1"                                  # compiz (0) ??

#       Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

        Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"              # cs 1.6
        Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"  # cs 1.6

EndSection

few more fixes and canditate for next stable release may come soon.

[Wojtek]

Ah finally! Now I can finally upgrade to xorg-server-1.4

Please let us know when you finish the upgrade run AIGLX so that we could be sure.
Cheers,

Wojtek

[pjjanak]

I posted a while ago saying that suspend/hibernate didn't work at all. Well, there is good news (I guess): suspend/hibernate does work, but only when Compiz is disabled. I want Compiz to work. It's one of two reason why I want to use the ATI drivers (the other being Xv support). Anybody know of why this would happen and a possible work around?

Peter

[Ole-Martin Broz]

for laptop videocards i DO NOT RECCON TO CHANGE, I DO NOT RECCON!.

1st, its VERY EXPENSIVE, 2nd cooling issues might appy, 3rd you may be unlucky to have something say, put in orginal blabla, i got hp laptops etc which doesnt want to change wireless cpu videocards dvd rom, nothing else than memory.

[n3Cre0]

Please let us know when you finish the upgrade run AIGLX so that we could be sure.
Cheers,

Wojtek

Doesn't work here. Still the same shit.

$ fusion-icon
* Detected Session: gnome
* Searching for installed applications...
* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context
... nor with indirect rendering, this isn't going to work!
* Using the GTK Interface
* Starting Metacity
* Setting window manager to Compiz
... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering
compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

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