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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 507

Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

I recently tried to switch from the catalyst driver to the open sourced ATI driver due to several reasons. However after updating everything accordingly following the wiki with the recommended methods to uninstall the catalyst driver I'm unable to get the open sourced driver to work.

lspci -k : https://ptpb.pw/H6TK

dmesg : https://ptpb.pw/FjhD

I use startx to startup i3 and I followed the wiki's suggestions for the open sourced driver. I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug or if there is a configuration issue, but using catalyst-test I have no issues so I doubt this is a hardware issue.

I haven't used the open sourced driver in a while so there may be something I'm missing or something missing from the wiki about the new xorg, if so please point me in the right direction. However, I'm quite sure I've done everything necessary for the driver to work.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

What do you mean you are unable to get it to "work"?  What happens?  What goes wrong? What error messages are there?

However, I'm quite sure I've done everything necessary for the driver to work.

I'm quite sure you haven't.  If you had, it would work.  Have you removed any xorg conf files?

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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

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Re: Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

I'm quite sure you haven't.  If you had, it would work.  Have you removed any xorg conf files?

Of course I removed it. Are you sure it will work? I'm sure it _won't_ work. I'm here not because I don't know what I'm doing but because I did everything I know should be done and it _still_ doesn't work.
Did you look at the dmesg output I posted? Near the bottom is the errors I'm talking about.

Last edited by rg_arc (2016-05-15 17:44:56)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

OK.  If you're sure it can't work then what are you looking for here?  Just sympathy?

I'm tempted to bin this as-is, but I'll leave you at the mercy of anyone else who might try to help you.  I'm not going to bother.

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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 507

Re: Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

OK.  If you're sure it can't work then what are you looking for here?  Just sympathy?

I'm tempted to bin this as-is, but I'll leave you at the mercy of anyone else who might try to help you.  I'm not going to bother.

I've provided all the information needed for troubleshooting, what more is there to say? I'll tell you what, since you are completely incapable of helping and noone else has yet to respond go ahead and bin the thread. This is a community for support not laziness and pedantry. I know plenty of other communities (namely Google+ and Freenode IRC) that are willing to read the given error messages and provide at least an opinion as to what _could_ be happening. You have provided absolutely nothing but attitude, so I'm not wasting my time getting answers in this thread.

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

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Re: Using the open source ATI driver fails with errors

[...] What happens?  What goes wrong? What error messages are there? [...]

He showed his dmesg output. You might have overlooked that URL he put in his post. Here's a snippet of the kind of messages that get spammed in his logs:

[   49.752764] radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 3 stalled for more than 10000msec
[   49.752771] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000001 last fence id 0x00000000000000c1 on ring 3)
[   49.916104] radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 0 stalled for more than 10000msec
[   49.918994] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000001 last fence id 0x000000000000001a on ring 0)
[   50.252759] radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 3 stalled for more than 10500msec
[   50.255688] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000001 last fence id 0x00000000000000c1 on ring 3)
[   50.416077] radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 0 stalled for more than 10500msec
[   50.419192] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (current fence id 0x0000000000000001 last fence id 0x000000000000001a on ring 0)