catalyst woes

unixguru · 2008-06-24 16:54:55

Installed latest catalyst 8.6 today and I am having big problems. Running AMD 780G IGP. X starts only as root, immediately shutdowns for normal users. Even for root there seems to be a problem. glxgears and fgl_glxgears work fine but glxinfo and fglrxinfo segfault. Output of fglrxinfo:-

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7659 Release

Segmentation fault

And a similar error for glxinfo. Here is xorg.conf:-

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load       "glx"
    Load       "dri"
    Load       "dbe"      
    SubSection "extmod"
        Option        "omit xfree86-dga"   
    EndSubSection
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section    "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc103"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "Auto"    # Auto detect
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection    

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "false"
EndSection

kclive18 · 2008-06-24 17:01:06

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42469

I did find another thread on this forum that pertained to this problem (except with an older version of Catalyst). Do you use Compiz/Fusion?

unixguru · 2008-06-24 17:35:57

No, I don't use compiz and I have composite disabled in xorg.conf. I can start X as normal user, it was due to a bad .xinitrc and has nothing to do with the segmentation faults. The same problem is there in ubuntu 8.04 , i generated the package with the installer provided by AMD. Can anyone using the latest driver confirm that this a problem with the new drivers itself?

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unixguru · 2008-06-24 19:36:34

Doom3 and ut2004 work flawlessly and I am getting a frame rate of 36 fps at the demo1 timedemo for Doom3 . For comparison OpenSuse 11 + catalyst 8.5 gave me 33 fps and windows XP 31. Arch seems to offer the fastest multimedia perfomance and Internet perfomance. I can see no error messages on the terminal after qutting the games. Is this error really serious? I think I should quit poking around, trying to fix somehing which is not broken and get some sleep(It is 1:04 AM in India).

Last edited by unixguru (2008-06-24 19:38:40)

Cerebral · 2008-06-24 19:49:33

may as well get some sleep now. If glxgears is the only thing segfaulting, then don't worry about it for now

darknebula · 2008-06-25 20:35:05

I'm getting the same problem. Every OpenGL application seg faults when it ends. And if I use fullscreen mode for an application the entire screen ends up with corruption like crazy. I'll post some pictures later.

unixguru · 2008-06-26 17:35:27

That sementation fault is actually causing problems. Doom 3 works flawlessly but suddenly ut2004 starts going crazy. When i quit ut2004, i get this

Xlib:  extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0".
Signal: SIGSEGV [segmentation fault]
Aborting.


Crash information will be saved to your logfile.
^CCTRL-C before main loop ... forcing exit.

That part about xlib is not a problem as mentioned in the readme but the SEGMENTATION is happening and the screen freezes with the Ut2004 main menu displayed. i can get back my KDE desktop by doing ctrl+alt+f1 and then doing ctrl+alt+f7 but ut2004-bin is still in memory and i need to shut it down manally with killall. is there any fix?

unixguru · 2008-06-27 05:23:47

How do i downgrade to catalyst 8.4(8.5 cause even more problems for me). i can't seem to find a PKGBUILD anywhere.

Last edited by unixguru (2008-06-27 05:24:28)

sam · 2008-06-27 16:34:47

unixguru wrote:

How do i downgrade to catalyst 8.4(8.5 cause even more problems for me). i can't seem to find a PKGBUILD anywhere.

Check /var/cache/pacman/pkg for the package. Unless you ran pacman -Sc, it should still be there. Then pacman -U [location/to/package]. I had to do the exact same thing:)

unixguru · 2008-06-27 17:53:51

Satus Update:
Catalyst 8.5 - no segmentation but eventually doom3 or ut2004 will cause full system freeze which only the power button can melt.
Catalyst 8.6- Works perfectly in doom 3, ut2004 works well but on exit we have segmentation.
Catalyst 8.4- Does not work with kernel 2.6.25

i built catalyst 8.5 by modifying the pkgbuild from abs. As catalyst 8.6 is atleast stable I am going to stick with it and move doom 3 and ut2004 to windows till 8.7 is out. A lot of people seem to have the same problem so I guess it should be fixed. If anyone has any solutions please feel free to yell.

brynjolf · 2008-06-27 18:02:22

unixguru: even though ATI drivers are pretty subpar, could it be hardware related? My computer overheats quite quickly running Q4

unixguru · 2008-06-27 19:48:57

I doubt it is hardware related as my pc is just a month hold. Furthermore, doom 3 seems to work fine and I am getting 36 FPS at 800x600 High quality. Everything seems to work perfectly in windows xp and as I said before, doom 3 is slightly faster in Arch than in xp! I did a memtest and the memory is alright. I have no clue how to check whether the integrated HD 3200 is working properly. As I really have a lot of time to kill, I did some extensive distribution testing. Here are the results:-

OpenSuse 11 kde3 with catalyst 8.5- Everything works perfect but if you leave the computer idle for some time(say downloading) it may completely lock up. This does not happen if I am using the comp even for hours at a stretch. You will have to leave it idle and the locking up is completely random. i think it has something to do with acpi but no such problem with other distros so I am dumping suse. Btw, kde4 in suse is just awesome. Even if you install just kde3 a lot of packages will be from kde4(ktorrent, games)

Fedora 9:- They bundle the next version of xorg and catalyst cannot be installed you downgrade xserver. Not worth the effort, so I skipped it. radeonhd driver actually worked in this one but the screen had huge black borders all around.

mandriva 2008.1 kde- This one is strange, the driver version with mandriva is 8.471. doom 3 works but the sound is delayed. Some times the delay is as much as 5 secs. Exceptionally irritating.

Zenwalk 5.2- Really funny, I cannot install the drivers. There is no package available in the zenwalk repo and installing the driver manually or generating a slackware package both give me an error about GPL incompatibility or something.

Tommorow I will try ubuntu 8.04.
So it boils down the following:-
1. My HD 3200 is spooked.
2. catalyst 8.6/8.5 is spooked.
3. Someday up there does not like me.

brynjolf · 2008-06-27 22:24:52

Ok Good luck then
I switched to archlinux from ubuntu since I couldnt restart X without it freezing up on me. Now I'm using 8.5 and get pretty poor performance, guess that's life.
Hmm the phoronix forums / compiz forums seems to be places to ask if you want to ask about more general ATI questions.
but as said, good luck!

unixguru · 2008-06-28 08:59:27

Catalyst 8.4 works perfectly in ubuntu. No trobule at all. How do I Install it in arch? is there any PKGBUILD which makes it work with kernel 2.6.25.

unixguru · 2008-06-28 16:19:52

I fixed it! I installed catalyst 8.4 and everything works perfect. SVN is GOD!

matryc · 2008-06-29 03:48:17

Yeah?
And what about relogging and hardlocks at 8.4 Did you check that?
8.5, 8.6 - Seg. faults at glxgears, open office etc... crap.

Well I think that i will have to wait till catalyst 9.0
And there is a high probability that when the stable version will come out, my graphic card is not going to be on a compatibility list

unixguru · 2008-06-29 05:50:22

No hardlocks, segfaults or anything with 8.4 Tested with nexuiz, rtcw, doom3, wesnoth and smplayer.

Last edited by unixguru (2008-06-29 05:51:06)

matryc · 2008-06-29 22:27:21

Can You send me a link to this 8.4 working version? I will give it a try.

unixguru · 2008-06-30 03:01:11

http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/c … threv=2039
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/c … threv=2041

SVN is truly amazing!

Last edited by unixguru (2008-06-30 03:09:04)

matryc · 2008-07-02 02:35:57

Thanks mate, I did packages, and it works...
But my laptop still suffers from hard locks when relogging.
So when I need to restart X, I have to restart the whole computer (whats more interesting is that, when I put my laptop to sleep, than it awakes without any problem - odd)
In plus is that I have direct rendering and glxinfo, glxgears, openoffice etc. works, and I don't get any Seg faults.

ps.
I've noticed that when I turn off X, I get this error:
(EE) fglrx(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler

This one has something to do with direct rendering. I searched for clues, but there is no clear solution.

Last edited by matryc (2008-07-02 09:47:14)

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