AMD Catalyst 8.01 Linux Driver

[mal13]

This is reference to my problem...aka logout is f****d.
see starting day of this bug and still it exist.

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239

Come on ati.

ps. that workaround doesn't help. blac/nk screen after logout/switchuser/shutdown.

[Christian_L]

Wow!

You were right. I don't remember if I did some change before, but the Vertical Refresh was enabled (closer to Quality, instead of Performance). Disabling it, glxgears now states around 2420 FPS.

Thank you very, very much, Christian_L! Things go better now.

Osado

Glad I could help.

[Osado]

Wow!

You were right. I don't remember if I did some change before, but the Vertical Refresh was enabled (closer to Quality, instead of Performance). Disabling it, glxgears now states around 2420 FPS.

Thank you very, very much, Christian_L! Things go better now.

Osado

[Christian_L]

-glxinfo: direct rendering: Yes

-fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release

-grep "(EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
none (only the line that explains that (EE) is an error, (WW) is a warning...)

-grep "(WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect X server version (query_status=-3)
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
...
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x72

Any other log to see (or test to execute)?
Osado

Check whether you have set "Vertical Refresh" in amdcccle to some value on the right side, like "Quality". This is actually a good thing to reduce tearing during video playback, but it also reduces the fps to the refresh rate of your monitor (usually 60).

[Osado]

50 FPS sounds like disabled hardware 3D support.
What error messages are you getting?

Cheers,
knutbert

-glxinfo: direct rendering: Yes

-fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release

-grep "(EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
none (only the line that explains that (EE) is an error, (WW) is a warning...)

-grep "(WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): could not detect X server version (query_status=-3)
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
...
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x72

Any other log to see (or test to execute)?
Osado

[knutbert]

-8.01: no memory leak, resolution 1680x1050, but... 50 FPS with glxgears and the same with fgl_glxgears!

Dell 6400, ATI Mobility X1400, Mandriva Cooker (Xorg 1.4)

50 FPS sounds like disabled hardware 3D support.
What error messages are you getting?

Cheers,
knutbert

[Osado]

Hello everybody...
Well, don't know if things are going better or not.
-8.42 and 8.43: my laptop suffered the GL memory leak
-7.12: max resolution 1280x1024, instead of 1680x1050
-8.01: no memory leak, resolution 1680x1050, but... 50 FPS with glxgears and the same with fgl_glxgears!

As a F.C.Barcelona supporter, I felt capable to follow and test the progress of this driver, but this begins to make me so depressive...

Did not test suspend/hibernate, dual display... I don't feel encouraged.

Dell Inspiron 6400, ATI Mobility X1400, Mandriva Cooker (Xorg 1.4)

[Kano]

@Wired

are you 100% sure you cleaned fglrx? Are you sure that no fglrx module is loaded but radeon+drm?

[linzerd]

Answering to mirv:
Ignoring people is not the answer... They should dig into the problem, we are not testers nor developers, and not all the people knows how to do this tests... if people is complaining since 2005 because slow 2d rendering and decreasing performance SOMETHING must be happening, and i believe it's a duty of a serious company to give SOLUTIONS to people with problems... i have confirmed this bug with mi X200 IGP on an intel D101GGC MoBo, and with my MSI X1300 Radeon, on ubuntu Feisty AND OpenSuse 10.3 (both recently installed), with 8.01 driver...

[sastraxi]

The other day I considered mailing ATI my laptop so that they could at least test their driver on the X1400 mobility before releases. 7.11 is the last driver that works to a decent extent (minus suspending, of course). I guess I'm getting a bit desperate?