AMD/ATI Catalyst 7.12 Released

Cerebral · 2007-12-21 00:35:21

7.12 Release Notes wrote:

New Features
This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux driver introduces support for the following new operating systems:
* Red Flag DT 6.0 Support
* OpenSUSE 10.3 support
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:
* A memory leak is no longer noticed when running OpenGL applications
* Running X -configure no longer results in a segmentation fault in the fglrx driver
* fglrxinfo no longer reports OpenGL Render string: as Mesa GLX Indirect on systems containing an ATI Rialto AGP series of product
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
* There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30687
* Corruption may be noticed in the lower right corner of the display after the system is running for a long period of time
* Display flicker may be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts
* Diagonal tearing may be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Video playback may look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Video Playback may display wrong colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Connecting a display device that supports 1680x1050 to a system running Linux may result in a maximum display resolution of 1280x1024 only being available
* Custom mode lines in xorg.conf may be ignored by the fglrx driver
* Building RPM packages for Mandriva may fail

Of other note, apparently the libGL soname issue that we devs have noticed with the catalyst-utils package should be fixed.

I'm building packages now - once you get them, feel free to post your experiences.

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-12-21 00:41:17)

Cerebral · 2007-12-21 01:46:30

Here are my own personal experiences with the driver (which I'm uploading as I type):

ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro

Direct rendering still works.
xv seems to work OK.
Dual-head is still totally broken for me.
AIGLX still does not work - compiz refuses to start, no matter which workarounds or hacks I try.
No OpenGL memory leak (although I could never reproduce this in the first place)
amdcccle looks nice, seems to work fine
On first try, I still had to run glxgears, Ctrl-C, then run it again for it to appear.

elide · 2007-12-21 02:29:02

And what about suspending to memory ?
s2ram worked well with fglrx, but constantly freezes on resuming with catalyst...

JaDa · 2007-12-21 02:31:16

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Cerebral · 2007-12-21 02:32:45

JaDa - I listed all that already in the original post.

elide - unfortunately I haven't heard anything either way. I don't use suspend myself, so I don't know.

JaDa · 2007-12-21 02:41:58

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7170 Release
Driver 8.44.3

Working better. No problem with the Catalyst Control Center anymore

Thx, for the quick update

thayer · 2007-12-21 05:44:08

Oy... interestingly enough, after upgrading and restarting X I've lost my native resolution of 1680*1050. xrandr --query reports the new max as 1280*1024. Reverting both catalyst and catalyst-utils restores the proper resolution. For the record, I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X1400.

Other observations about the 7.12 driver:
*hibernate/suspend still fails (regardless of vga=0 and "UseInternalAGPGart" "no")
*amdccle does load without trouble

In case anyone else needs to revert and doesn't have the (i686) v7.11 packages cached, you can grab them from my website:

http://www.cinderwick.ca/files/catalyst … pkg.tar.gz
http://www.cinderwick.ca/files/catalyst … pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by thayer (2007-12-21 06:08:28)

stylopath · 2007-12-21 07:42:13

it seems like ati didn't learn anything in the past few months.
By the quality of their drivers i can suspect my notebook to work properly in 2010. Sadly, it won't be my notebook anymore by then which means i spend the whole lifetime of this notebook with crippled drivers - Thanx ati!

OnTopic: The memory leak is really gone and amdcccle works fine (like it did with the latest release ), but the irritations in the right lower corner, missing aiglx-support and a few minor issues lead me to the conclusion that this driver only contains fixes that would need a few days of work to fix- apparently the ati guys need 1 month for that.

though the OS-Radeon-driver doesn't support 3d on my card (xpress200M) it is my favorite by now, because it brings less problems.

Sorry but i'm really p+ssed of

robbel · 2007-12-21 07:58:55

thayer wrote:

Oy... interestingly enough, after upgrading and restarting X I've lost my native resolution of 1680*1050. xrandr --query reports the new max as 1280*1024. Reverting both catalyst and catalyst-utils restores the proper resolution. For the record, I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X1400.

Hey,

I have exactly the same problem (Radeon 9700 Mobility here). My native resolution is 1400x1050 and it used to work just fine but the newest driver maxes out at 1280x1024 (as reported by xrandr).

Shame ATI can't write drivers.

Thanks for posting the old packages.

Best,
Philipp

LinuxPatsku · 2007-12-21 09:34:54

robbel wrote:

thayer wrote:
Oy... interestingly enough, after upgrading and restarting X I've lost my native resolution of 1680*1050. xrandr --query reports the new max as 1280*1024. Reverting both catalyst and catalyst-utils restores the proper resolution. For the record, I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X1400.
Hey,
I have exactly the same problem (Radeon 9700 Mobility here). My native resolution is 1400x1050 and it used to work just fine but the newest driver maxes out at 1280x1024 (as reported by xrandr).
Shame ATI can't write drivers.
Thanks for posting the old packages.
Best,
Philipp

Me too. Normally I use 1440x900 resolution, but after updating, my resolution is totally wrong. Thanks for the packages!

Last edited by LinuxPatsku (2007-12-21 10:00:16)

Mikko777 · 2007-12-21 12:53:04

Pros, uses less ram, no dual xorgs started anymore?

Cons, no 1680x1050

Thayer thanks for the old packages!

Cerebral · 2007-12-21 13:29:43

Those reporting resolution problems - it is already listed in the known issues section, so I'm sure they're working on that.

RobbeR49 · 2007-12-21 13:38:46

Hmmmm, I'm using 1680x1050 for my resolution as well, with a 9600XT. Do I dare to update?

LinuxPatsku · 2007-12-21 13:56:09

RobbeR49 wrote:

Hmmmm, I'm using 1680x1050 for my resolution as well, with a 9600XT. Do I dare to update?

I think, you should be wait update.

rochus · 2007-12-21 17:02:37

stylopath wrote:

but the irritations in the right lower corner

Tried to set

 Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

in your Device section? Maybe this will help you.

Btw. Thinkpad T60: Native resolution of 1400x1050 won't work with the latest 7.12. No ATI card anymore

Stoffi · 2007-12-21 18:23:23

when I try to start X, I ger an error message:
(EE) fglrx(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler

I am currently a newbie at linux, so I don't know how to fix this, but I have tried to generate a new xorg.conf

Alnicolli · 2007-12-23 10:37:02

Same problem:
Cannot use native 1680 x 1050 resolution on my ati radeon X1400. I'll try to restore the old one.

Next time, better have a look to the forum first :-)

Alnicolli

Raizha_Phyrok · 2007-12-23 11:01:25

Another same problem with resolution, cannot set 1440x900, on ati mobility radeon x600.

Thanks to cerebral for sending me to this tread an show me the previous packages

On the future, I'll see the forum and the possible issues with the new drivers.

stylopath · 2007-12-23 14:44:56

When will the AMD64-Repos see this package?

billy · 2007-12-23 22:46:25

I have the same problem with resolution on my radeon x1400. Because of this kind of bugs i'm using radeonhd driver for a while now and i like it. Those novell guys (and community of course) are doing great work.

afonic · 2007-12-24 00:23:13

Neither that nor the 7.11 release work on my Radeon HD2600Pro AGP.

Nothing Arch-wise, its the driver that still doesn't work.

raroman · 2008-01-05 22:11:47

My goodness. I spent HOURS trying to solve this video-resolution problem. I had no idea where to start looking, I'm sadly only a linux-noob.

Thayer, thank you so much for those packages!
What I don't quite get yet is: Does the older (7.11) catalyst driver still not accept Modelines? I read my numbers from Xorg.0.log when the screen was still haywire with the 7.12 driver. But now it still reads:

(EE) fglrx(0): === [swlDalHelperAddCustomizeMode] === CWDDEDI_DisplayGetSetModeTimingOverride failed: 2

It's working fine now, but I'm a bit ashamed to say I don't quite see why

Borat · 2008-01-06 07:54:44

How can they put out such a half-assed driver that it doesnt support 1680x1050?

c3l5o · 2008-01-12 04:44:26

Can anyone get me the old drivers for 64-Bit???

May-C · 2008-01-15 11:58:02

You can build it yourself:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bui … s_with_ABS

Arch Linux

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