AMD Catalyst 8.7 Linux Driver Released

[rob2687]

With 8.5 onwards I was getting the corrupted screen on Gnome System Monitor and some apps had messed up colours. There was also the screen corruption when running Wine.

I removed every trace of the current drivers and installed 8.7. Now only Wine gives the screen corruption.

[bridgman]

I just hate it when people bite the hand that's trying very hard to feed them.

I basically have no usable 3d though. compiz reports texture_from_pixmap is not present, ET:QW segfaults when loading a map, doom3 segfaults before showing the main menu, Cedega games seem to die whenever trying to do something 3d. Quake4 does get into the game, but all the textures are black and even on "low quality" performance is horrible.

If bridgman doesn't have any ideas given my logs on page 7, my next step is to try a clean install of something (maybe Ubuntu 64/32, maybe something else), to see if it's anything to do with my OS.

I don't see anything obviously wrong with any of the files, but those mtrr's still seem really wrong. I would probably try a fresh install of Ubuntu 32-bit, get the 8.7 download, then use the installer to build a package for Ubuntu and try that.

[RealNC]

I can't even resize a window in Compiz with fglrx. Every time I try, everything freezes for about 6 to 8 seconds. Oh yes, that's a very "pro" driver indeed :P

[grantek]

Am I the only one who went LOL at that one?

I just hate it when people bite the hand that's trying very hard to feed them.

I basically have no usable 3d though. compiz reports texture_from_pixmap is not present, ET:QW segfaults when loading a map, doom3 segfaults before showing the main menu, Cedega games seem to die whenever trying to do something 3d. Quake4 does get into the game, but all the textures are black and even on "low quality" performance is horrible.

If bridgman doesn't have any ideas given my logs on page 7, my next step is to try a clean install of something (maybe Ubuntu 64/32, maybe something else), to see if it's anything to do with my OS.

[RealNC]

This is my first post, so I just have to get this out of the way: THANK YOU AMD - my system is broken and doesn't play games

Am I the only one who went LOL at that one?

[reavertm]

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232609

[dscharrer]

Initially Catalyst 8.7 didn't change anything regarding screen corruption for me on Gentoo amd64, xorg 7.3 (xorg-server 1.4.2) with a
Radeon HD 4850.

However, after adding all X packages to package.keywords (I had most of them there, but seemed to have forgotten a few libraries / headers) and unmerging all X packages and then re-emerging the "xorg-x11" "xorg-server" packages I don't get any corruption anymore.

I tested this with wine and Kaffeine (xine).

[benwick]

ebuild with 2.6.26 patch

Here is an ebuild file I made for Gentoo users who wish to use Kernel 2.6.26. I took it from the ebuild in the previous release, changed the download link and version number, and added the patch Kano posted before (with the paths fixed). I can't guarantee it's perfect but it seems to work.

If you're wondering why it's 8.502 instead of 8.512, it's only so that my custom ebuild will be overridden by the real ebuild when Gentoo gets the real ebuild into portage.

http://www.undergroundcircus.net/ati...s-8.502.ebuild
http://www.undergroundcircus.net/kernel-2.6.26.patch

Download the above files. Put ati-drivers-8.502.ebuild in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers . Put the kernel patch file into /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/files AND into /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/files/8.476 (because I say so is why).

cd /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers
ebuild ati-drivers-8.502.ebuild manifest
emerge ati-drivers

Voila! If you have problems I can provide only very limited support.

[grantek]

Those are *really* wierd looking mtrrs... don't know if they're the problem though. Can you pastebin a copy of your xorg log somewhere so we can see if the driver is complaining about anything ?

pastebin.com/me640986 - dmesg
pastebin.com/m57b42621 - Xorg.0.log
pastebin.com/m56e4491c - xorg.conf - pretty standard I think

I'm mildly worried about the memory ranges in dmesg, if the card wants a single block from 0xd0000000-0xefffffff and dmesg shows 0xe0000000-0xefffffff is unavailable, it could be artificially limiting me to 256MB.

[mega_mike]

bleh

My Ubuntu 8.04 system in a Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI Mobility x1400 still has the same issue I have had since the initial catalyst driver release. When the hell is ATI going to address stability in their driver damnit!

Performance seems to be slightly better but my system still grinds to a halt after roughly 6 hours of usage (compiz enabled). I can't restart the X server at that point without it hard locking my machine (the only way to reboot is to issue direct kernel commands alt+prntscn+s then al+printscn+b).