While it's great to see such a large bugfix list, it's sad to see that new problems have been introduced, or that they haven't been solved completely. For example, when I started reading the article, I was like 'This is it! This is the driver release that will end all problems!', and then I get bummed by 3D corruption on the Unigine Tropics engine :/ Why is having normal 3D acceleration too hard?
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while everybody complains about small missing features :P
I do complain about a bad regression that segfaults my Xorg on start-up.
It already happened with Catalyst 8.7...
Code:[...snip...] (II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled (II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 16. (II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface (II) fglrx(0): Finished Initialize PPLIB! (II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin (EE) fglrx(1): Quitting secondary screen -- no monitor specified. (EE) fglrx(1): PreInit failed (II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === end Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x49263a] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f9e61f5dda0] 2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxFreeScreen+0x2f4) [0x7f9e5fcfa434] 3: /usr/bin/X(xf86DeleteScreen+0x7e) [0x4a5ade] 4: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0xa1f) [0x46c0bf] 5: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2c6) [0x437256] 6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f9e61f491d6] 7: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x289) [0x4366f9] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting
and other people experienced it too:
with other chipsets...
Catalyst 8.8 and 8.6 didn't suffer for the hang.
There may be a workaround?
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That driver is fully crap for several reasons:
a) Using Debian etch + Xorg 7.1.1
OpenGL accelleration only works as root! The xorg.conf entry
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Seems to be fully ignored. Absolutely unusable!
b) Absolutely no rendering improvements - even as root pointsprites are missing
Hey mtippet didn't you tell me at the end of JUNE that after 2 month all would work - like gl2benchmark and your example with flightgear?
c) Not even the most trivial fixes for 2.6.27 support - load the kernel module only smp_call_function must be fixed - for 2.6.27 and newer the 3rd option has to be removed, wow thats really hard that you can not make it.
Maybe AMD/ATI wants to wins the worst driver of the year award with that piece of shit. I guess the Linux devs there play at home with Nvidia cards in their pcs.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostThat driver is fully crap for several reasons:
a) Using Debian etch + Xorg 7.1.1
OpenGL accelleration only works as root! The xorg.conf entry
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Seems to be fully ignored. Absolutely unusable!
b) Absolutely no rendering improvements - even as root pointsprites are missing
Hey mtippet didn't you tell me at the end of JUNE that after 2 month all would work - like gl2benchmark and your example with flightgear?
c) Not even the most trivial fixes for 2.6.27 support - load the kernel module only smp_call_function must be fixed - for 2.6.27 and newer the 3rd option has to be removed, wow thats really hard that you can not make it.
Maybe AMD/ATI wants to wins the worst driver of the year award with that piece of shit. I guess the Linux devs there play at home with Nvidia cards in their pcs.
why don't you try to rant a little bit less and at least tell us what gpu you are using...
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Having tested it a bit further now (esp. regarding Wine), I noticed that (apart from the usual screen corruption) virtual desktop switching works again and Wine doesn't segfault anymore when started twice on the same terminal.
By the way, @Michael: the official spelling is Wine, not WINE.
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I couldn't get this driver to work: a few seconds after X started, it would (soft) crash. It's the first time a driver didn't work here and no amount of tinkering could get it in shape, so I'm back to 8.8 for now.
RV580 (X1950 Pro) on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64 with 6GB of memory.
At least 8.8 works quite well, so it's not a problem. Looking forward to Ubuntu 8.10 with the open-source drivers now - already tested and they work flawlessly here!
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Well now "OffscreenRenderingMode fbo" works in wine again, so no stuff thats not supposed to on the screen appears in the bottom left, but I cant minimize or switch desktop anymore . I can interact with the desktop ( e.g. open something in the taskbar ) , but i cant see anything . It flickers for a second where i see the desktop , then wine's all over the place again .
( debian lenny , mobility x700 )Last edited by flami; 18 September 2008, 11:36 AM.
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