Where is fglrx / catalyst 8.5?

[Zibi1981]

ati-driver-installer-8.5 -> Trash -> Empty!!!

its only for testing without 3D!!!

it is version 8.493 only...

Does really this version lack 3D support?

[bridgman]

Not sure what that post meant; maybe the poster had an issue with the kernel module not being installed or not initializing properly and getting slow/failing 3D as a result.

re: the version numbers, this is Catalyst 8.5, ie the 5th release of 2008, which also happens to be internal release number 8.493.

[lupine]

Are there any code changes with the new version? I'm hesitant to retry it, as it seems unlikely...

Also, my last post appears to have not made it. To wit: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139

[bridgman]

I'm pretty sure it's just a packaging change -- wouldn't expect anything other than the watermark to be affected.

[lupine]

My thoughts too. Looks like I'm sticking to 8.4 for a while. *sigh*. I was looking forward to this update, too - wine keeps failing with literally every directx app I care to try (it didn't with my old nvidia card), and I was hoping a driver update would fix it.

This is what I get for rampant fanboyism, I guess . I only bought ATI because they'd been bought by AMD, and they were doing the open-source thing. If I'd thought on it more, I'd have stuck to nvidia for a year or two more.

/Nick

[bridgman]

If you have examples of DX apps which work with wine on another card but not with our current driver can you let us know ?

[lupine]

If you have examples of DX apps which work with wine on another card but not with our current driver can you let us know ?

Sure. The main example is the game "audiosurf". Other ones that don't work are NWN2 (not tested with the old nvidia card), the DXDiag 3D acceleration test(!) (with all the native DirectX9 stuff installed).

Here's what audiosurf says (with 8.4 drivers):
fixme:d3d:test_pbo_functionality >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_OPERATION (0x502) from Loading the PBO test texture
@ ../../../dlls/wined3d/directx.c / 3462
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_CreateQuery (0x13e910) Unhandled query type 4
wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 0x7c044b28 at address 0x7c044b28 (thread 000b), starting debugger...

I have a 10GB full-debug-run-log of what happens to NWN2... it's not exactly fascinating, mind.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, fgl_glxgears -fbo hardlocks the computer (again, 8.4).

[SledgeHammer_999]

It doesn't even build here.

Ubuntu Hardy 64 bits

x1600pro

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==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Ubuntu/8.04
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package fglrx-installer
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2:8.493-0ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ATI Technologies Inc. <http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html>
debian/rules build
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
echo "Using architecture: amd64"
Using architecture: amd64
for i in preinst postinst postrm shlibs atieventsd.init ; do \
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/driver.$i ]; then \
sed -e "s/#PKGNAME#/xorg-driver-fglrx/" \
-e "s/#DISTRO#/hardy/" /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/driver.$i > \
/tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/xorg-driver-fglrx.$i; \
fi; \
done
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx.template ]; then \
sed -e "s|#XMODDIR#|usr/lib|" -e "s|#XMODDIR32#|usr/lib32|" \
/tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx.template > /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx; \
fi
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
mv /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx.default /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx; \
fi
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
# move licenses away from binary dir
if [ ! -d usr/share/doc/fglrx ]; then \
mkdir -p usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
mv usr/X11R6/bin/LICENSE.* usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
fi
# set executable on user apps
find usr/X11R6/bin -type f | xargs chmod a+x
# remove exec bit from files that don't deserve it
find usr/X11R6/include \
usr/X11R6/lib \
usr/X11R6/lib64 \
usr/share usr/src -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib -not -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod +x
# remove exec bit from 64-bit libs too
find usr/X11R6/lib64 -type f | xargs chmod -x
dh_testdir
debian/rules binary
echo "Using architecture: amd64"
Using architecture: amd64
for i in preinst postinst postrm shlibs atieventsd.init ; do \
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/driver.$i ]; then \
sed -e "s/#PKGNAME#/xorg-driver-fglrx/" \
-e "s/#DISTRO#/hardy/" /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/driver.$i > \
/tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/xorg-driver-fglrx.$i; \
fi; \
done
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx.template ]; then \
sed -e "s|#XMODDIR#|usr/lib|" -e "s|#XMODDIR32#|usr/lib32|" \
/tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx.template > /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/10fglrx; \
fi
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
mv /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx.default /tmp/fglrx.Pi6360/debian/fglrx; \
fi
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
# move licenses away from binary dir
if [ ! -d usr/share/doc/fglrx ]; then \
mkdir -p usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
mv usr/X11R6/bin/LICENSE.* usr/share/doc/fglrx; \
fi
# set executable on user apps
find usr/X11R6/bin -type f | xargs chmod a+x
# remove exec bit from files that don't deserve it
find usr/X11R6/include \
usr/X11R6/lib \
usr/X11R6/lib64 \
usr/share usr/src -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib -not -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod -x
find lib -name "*.sh" -type f | xargs chmod +x
# remove exec bit from 64-bit libs too
find usr/X11R6/lib64 -type f | xargs chmod -x
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs
# Create the directories to install into
dh_installdirs -pxorg-driver-fglrx \
usr/lib \
usr/sbin \
usr/lib \
usr/lib/xorg/modules \
usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers \
usr/lib/xorg/modules/linux \
etc/acpi \
etc/acpi/events \
etc/default \
etc/X11/Xsession.d \

# the amd64 package includes 32bit compatibility libraries
dh_installdirs -pxorg-driver-fglrx \
usr/lib32 \
usr/lib32
dh_installdirs -A -pxorg-driver-fglrx \
usr/bin \
usr/sbin \
usr/share \
usr/share/applnk \
usr/share/gnome \
usr/share/gnome/apps \
usr/share/icons \
usr/share/pixmaps
dh_installdirs -pxorg-driver-fglrx-dev \
usr/include \
usr/lib
dh_installdirs -pfglrx-kernel-source \
usr/src/fglrx-8.493
dh_install
# Driver package
/sbin/ldconfig -n usr/X11R6/lib/
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/bin/fgl*" "usr/bin"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig" "usr/bin"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/sbin/atieventsd" "usr/sbin"
dh_installman -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/share/man/man8/atieventsd.8"
# amd64 needs some library redirection
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/*.so*" "usr/lib"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri" "usr/lib"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/linux" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/*.so" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/*.a" "usr/lib/xorg/modules"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib/*.so*" "usr/lib32"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri" "usr/lib32"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "etc/ati" "etc"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "debian/10fglrx" "etc/X11/Xsession.d"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "debian/fglrx-powermode.sh" "etc/acpi"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "debian/fglrx-*-aticonfig" "etc/acpi/events"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx "debian/fglrx" "etc/default"
dh_installinit -pxorg-driver-fglrx --name="atieventsd"
# Driver dev package
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx-dev "usr/X11R6/lib64/*.a" "usr/lib"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx-dev "usr/X11R6/include/*" "usr/include"
dh_install -pxorg-driver-fglrx-dev "usr/include/*" "usr/include"
#Create dkms.conf
echo "PACKAGE_NAME=\"fglrx\"" > debian/dkms.conf
echo "PACKAGE_VERSION=\"8.493\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
echo "CLEAN=\"rm -f *.*o\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
echo "BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=\"fglrx\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
echo "MAKE[0]=\"pushd \${dkms_tree}/fglrx/8.493/build; sh make.sh --nohints; popd\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
echo "DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=\"/kernel/drivers/char/drm\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
echo "AUTOINSTALL=\"yes\"" >> debian/dkms.conf
# Kernel source package
dh_install -pfglrx-kernel-source \
lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/*.c \
lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/*.h \
lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/*.sh \
lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/lib* \
lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/Makefile \
debian/dkms.conf \
usr/src/fglrx-8.493
# control panel package
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "usr/X11R6/bin/amdcccle" "usr/bin"
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "usr/share/icons/*.xpm" "usr/share/icons"
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "usr/share/icons/*.xpm" "usr/share/pixmaps"
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "debian/amdcccle.desktop" "usr/share/applications"
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "debian/amdcccle.kdelnk" "usr/share/applnk"
dh_install -A -pfglrx-amdcccle "usr/share/ati" "usr/share"
dh_desktop -pfglrx-amdcccle
# start the install
dh_installdocs
dh_installdocs -pxorg-driver-fglrx usr/share/doc/fglrx/*
#dh_installchangelogs
dh_link
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_installdeb
dh_makeshlibs
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XauFileName used by debian/xorg-driver-fglrx/usr/sbin/atieventsd found in none of the libraries.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: debian/xorg-driver-fglrx/usr/sbin/atieventsd shouldn't be linked with libXrender.so.1 (it uses none of its symbols).
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libfglrx_gamma.so.1 needed by debian/xorg-driver-fglrx/usr/bin/fglrx_xgamma (its RPATH is '').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
make: *** [binary] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.be6279

Same OS, same problem with 8.4/8.5 catalyst. Using x1800xl
I desperately need a solution.

[linzerd]

MAchine Specs:
Intel D101GGC MOBO
1 Gb generic RAM Memory
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz
Integrated Xpress 200 Graphic Card (256 MB of RAM Allocated)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB Hard Drive

Main Issues with this release:

1- VLC still crashes with OpenGL output, throws this message:

[00000343] main private error: option glx-shm does not exist
libGL error: drmGetMagic failed
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 58
Current serial number in output stream: 58

2- Scrambling video output bug with VideoOverlay option turned on in xorg.conf and XVideo output was partially resolved. Now it only happens rarely in fullscreen, but in windowed video playback, it is still seen.

[Joshi7791]

white screen with this test driver

Hello!

i have tried this driver 8.493 again without watermark (with the howto sed -i ...) and there is a white screen with compiz fusion on my ubuntu hardy 32 Bit.