AMD ATI fglrx 8.32.5 Released

[Dice62]

Hey guys, about the 8.32.05 Drivers, I installed FC6 yesterday, with all developments tools, and basically everything other than Xen and Visualization stuff, etc etc.

So. I tried the guides there were in the site, but none worked! first off, I don't have a lib64 folder, but I stilled linked it with the qt-3.3/lib, which worked fine.

Whenever I use the command aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
My XServer can't start, and I have to resort back to restoring my original. I use an ATi Radeon X700Pro. When I tried to the --buildpkg Fedora/FC6, it only gave me 4 RPMs, not five, which maybe my primary problem. The one it did not give me was: ATI-fglrx-IA32-libs-8.32.5-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm

Here is my current Xorg.conf File. (Right after I restored it)

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

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

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "False"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "False"
EndSection

(I added the ServerFlags and Extentions section after I got XServer running again)

This is the Xorg.conf that I get when I use
aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Which, makes XServer not work.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "False"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
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

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "False"
EndSection

That's my story, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Michael]

Are you running x86_64 Linux? If not, you should only have four RPMs for i386 Linux.

What does your Xorg.0.log show in the way of errors?

[Dice62]

Are you running x86_64 Linux? If not, you should only have four RPMs for i386 Linux.

What does your Xorg.0.log show in the way of errors?

Hey, wow that was a fast response!
Anyways, no I'm not using a 64-Bit processor, so I guess the 4 RPM thing is ok, as for my Xorg.0.log, here you are:

(II) fglrx(0): Composite extension enabled, disabling direct rendering
(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): ********************************************* *

(That is the only error I can find.)

[Dice62]

Hmm, it seemed like it's working now, I'm still using the Xorg I posted before, not the aticonfig one. I restarted and it worked, so horray?

[Dice62]

Ok, so as soon as my video card drivers started working, my sound died. In the same reboot. Could it be my Xorg.conf?

[Michael]

Your sound shouldn't be related to your audio. Check alsamixer

[numerodix]

I have an X1300 and I can't get these new drivers to work at all. I only have kdm as a window manager, so I can't test with anything minimalistic, but it shouldn't make a difference, should it? When I start X, KDE's loader comes up, and halts before the end. The mouse is live, but what little has loaded of the desktop is dead. I can't switch to console, keyboard is also dead. All I can do is power off. No errors in Xorg.log or dmesg either.

8.31.5 works just fine though.

[Dice62]

Your sound shouldn't be related to your audio. Check alsamixer

This is what I get when I try to open alsamixer:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

I'm looking around atm for what could have caused this.

[liqor_mortis]

I have an X1300 and I can't get these new drivers to work at all.

Ref my post on the previous page, the gentoo devs have hard masked these drivers as they don't work with X1000 series cards. So I would imagine that is the case with all distros.

[Michael]

Ref my post on the previous page, the gentoo devs have hard masked these drivers as they don't work with X1000 series cards. So I would imagine that is the case with all distros.

The fglrx 8.32.5 display driver themselves have absolutely no compatibility problems with the X1000 series. If anything, it is likely an issue with the Gentoo packaging scripts specifically.