Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[oibaf]

Any news about updating?

is it possible to use this updating on all of ubuntu distro previous 12.04

Unfortunately no, it is no longer possible to package current drivers on older Ubuntu.

obliaf how can you update all the necessary dependencies?! and if the latest are curretly 8.04 version why you named them 8.1?! thanks for your patiance

8.1 is the mesa version (current git is 9.1), not Ubuntu version.

[Azrael5]

Unfortunately no, it is no longer possible to package current drivers on older Ubuntu.



8.1 is the mesa version (current git is 9.1), not Ubuntu version.

how is it possible we cannot use them? what's happened? in terms of speed in confront of 7.10 version I'm using on UBUNTU 11.04, what benefits mesa 8.1 offers?

I apply the Sapphire HD3850 AGP Opengl 2.1 featuring:

666 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
AGP 4X/8X bus interface
256-bit GDDR3 memory interface
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Fully distributed design with 512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
Microsoft? DirectX? 10.1 support
Shader Model 4.1
32-bit floating point texture filtering
Indexed cube map arrays
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
Gather4 texture fetching
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
320 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
High performance vertex cache
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporal anti-aliasing
Gamma correct
Super AA (ATI CrossFire™ configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
Bicubic filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
OpenGL 2.0 support
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
Dedicated unified video decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC and VC-1 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats
Hardware MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX video decode acceleration
Motion compensation and IDCT
ATI Avivo Video Post Processor
Color space conversion
Chroma subsampling format conversion
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Gamma correction
Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
Detail enhancement
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
Bad edit correction
Two independent display controllers
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
Full 30-bit display processing
Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
Hardware cursor
Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)
Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content
Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x1536
Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
Underscan and overscan compensation
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs
ATI PowerPlay™
Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
Performance-on-Demand
Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
Clock and memory speed throttling
Voltage switching
Dynamic clock gating
Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
Some custom resolutions require user configuration
HDCP support for playback of protected content requires connection to a HDCP capable display.

[necro-lover]

arma2-free crash with a black-screen on the current radeon driver with the oibaf ppa.

a hard reset is needed.

is there any suggestion to fix that problem ?

[0xBADCODE]

Looks like...

arma2-free crash with a black-screen on the current radeon driver with the oibaf ppa.

a hard reset is needed.

is there any suggestion to fix that problem ?

Looks like if you have been hit by more or less the same bug as I did. As for me I had to revert to default Ubuntu drivers temporarily since current version could lockup GPU in unrecoverable manner while running OpenGL games and it's quite easily reproducibe, unfortunately. GPU would not recover: after recovery attempt the very same problem happens immediately so GPU recovery happens every 10 seconds without any real success.

[oibaf]

This was already reported in previous post. A fix was committed and I just updated the PPA, packages will be ready in a hour.

[necro-lover]

This was already reported in previous post. A fix was committed and I just updated the PPA, packages will be ready in a hour.

It still crash the only difference is now it does not need a hard-reset now I can restart in the console .

The desktop turns into a useless every 10 second crash and recovery mess.

[oibaf]

It still crash the only difference is now it does not need a hard-reset now I can restart in the console .

The desktop turns into a useless every 10 second crash and recovery mess.

You should open a new bug or add a comment here if you want to be fixed.

[necro-lover]

You should open a new bug or add a comment here if you want to be fixed.

I take some pictures with my camera and started the game in the console for the error messages:

"fixme:d3d:state_zfunc d3dcmp_notequal and d3dcmp_equal do not work correctly yet"
"EE r600_shader.c:5092 TGSI:endif - if/endif unbalanced in shader"
"Warning: R600 LLVM backend does not support indirect adressing. Falling back to TGSI backend "
"Fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8"

[oibaf]

I take some pictures with my camera and started the game in the console for the error messages:

"fixme:d3d:state_zfunc d3dcmp_notequal and d3dcmp_equal do not work correctly yet"
"EE r600_shader.c:5092 TGSI:endif - if/endif unbalanced in shader"
"Warning: R600 LLVM backend does not support indirect adressing. Falling back to TGSI backend "
"Fixme:d3d:resource_check_usage Unhandled usage flags 0x8"

With here I don't mean this forum, but the link under it :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55217

[necro-lover]

With here I don't mean this forum, but the link under it :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55217

its only because I?m tired in join yet another forum/bug-report platform.