AMD ATI fglrx 8.32.5 Released

[giorgosts]

Video on tv-out still cropping under Xv overlay. With TexturedVideo enabled, cropping is gone but video is slower and sharpness, colors, contrast and blacks not so good. Also a big green line at the top. All these disappear with Xv and TexturedVideo disabled.

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309

[Fragadelic]

I installed them but they fail to install control panel and when I went looking for it after a --keep, they were nowhere to be found. Anyone tried these and gotten the control panel installed?

[Michael]

Did you use the graphical installer or buildpkg? What distribution are you using?

[Fragadelic]

Graphical and it is an Ubuntu Edgy derivative called Linux Mint.

The installer doesn't recognize the Xorg version either but it installs and 3d works fine. I have the fgl_glxgears and fglxrinfo and the gamma one but no control panel.


Here is the output in the terminal window from running the installer:

Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.32.5............................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........................................
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server: Unknown X Window
cp: cannot stat `x710/usr/X11R6/bin/*': No such file or directory
find: install/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel: No such file or directory

[Fragadelic]

Running it with --buildpkg Ubuntu/6.10 fixed it all.

Thanks for mentioning it.

[cyberfish]

Hi all,

I am reading for many days now about fglrx and all the ATI stuff on Linux. I am just about to give up.

Everything seems ok but, of course, it is not.

I am from those who have the DRI impossible to enable. Here are the classics error messages I got:

[glxinfo]
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
client glx vendor string: ATI
client glx version string: 1.3
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float, GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX version: 1.2
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_multisample
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None



[Xorg.0.log]
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "AGP Mode" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "AGPSize" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "RenderAccel" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "EnablePageFlip" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...



[xorg.conf]
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

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

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 24.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "AGP Mode" "8"
Option "AGPSize" "128"
Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "FALSE"
Option "RenderAccel" "TRUE"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "TRUE"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "false"
EndSection


[uname -a]
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


The kernel is a 686 32 bit kernel and my CPU is a 64-bits capable AMD Sempron 2500+

The graphic card is an Sapphire ATI 9600 pro Atlantis (256 MB inside).


For sure I could live without opengl, but it is now a question of honour to make it work.

Sure you understand.

Thank you very much.

cyberfish

[Michael]

What happens if you make your xorg.conf really simple? Like here http://www.phoronix.com/redblog/down...c6-sample.conf

Are you trying the 8.32.5 drivers?

Did the drivers work with any other distribution?

[cyberfish]

Well yes, it is the 8.32.5 drivers on a FC6 system. I can't try on another distribution.

With the xorg.conf you gave me, I got a black screen when system should be starting X server (no input signal in LCD display, i.e. display was in standby mode) and the HDD was not loading anything. The num lock key was working and the mouse too but nothing else. I tried to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Alt+Suppr but nothing happened. I had to hard reset.

I just added lines about HorizSync, VertRefresh, AGPMode and AGP Size and I got a proper boot but at improper HorizSync and VertRefresh (??!).

Still no DRI enabled.

[Michael]

Does your Xorg.0.log show any errors (EE) not warnings?

Had you tried using the open-source Radeon drivers?

[cyberfish]

The command

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW && cat var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

only send back warnings. No error.

The radeon driver does not work. My card is still unsupported by the radeon driver so it is "normal" that it does not work.