The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Wintervenom · 2008-10-15 20:47:02

Yay, X.org 7.4 and 2.6.27 support at last!

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-11-08 16:28:44)

SyXbiT · 2008-10-15 20:52:24

yay
i really hope this is a big improvement.
i just gambled and bought an 4870 (and am stuck with no compiz ;( ) for the moment

Wintervenom · 2008-10-16 05:42:07

Wintervenom wrote:

Yay, X.org 7.4 and 2.6.27 support at last!

...Only in Ubuntu Intrepid for now.

SyXbiT · 2008-10-16 14:22:18

but it's at least available from ati.amd.com now

Shaika-Dzari · 2008-10-16 16:18:53

Is someone trying to simply change the pkgvers in the PKGBUILD and build it?
I have some strange lock with my HD3640 and I hope the update will solve it.

thayer · 2008-10-16 17:57:03

Shaika-Dzari wrote:

Is someone trying to simply change the pkgvers in the PKGBUILD and build it?
I have some strange lock with my HD3640 and I hope the update will solve it.

The patch file needs a tweak, but otherwise it works. Unfortunately it's still broken with the latest Xorg in testing.

SyXbiT · 2008-10-17 04:24:58

phoronix claims the way to make it compatible with xserver 1.5 is to install normally and then replace binaries that ubuntu has.
unbelievable that ati would give ubuntu special stuff and not everyone else.
Ubuntu shouldn't have accepted it! Mark Shuttleworth always talks about giving back to the community. telling ATI to get lost would have helped

Shaika-Dzari · 2008-10-17 16:43:11

So if I want to try this driver (the changelog mention fix for later AGP card like me) I must not update xorg?
This is very disappointing, I bought this card last week...

dav7 · 2008-10-17 17:14:26

Patches and other Really Important Stuff(tm) inclusive, will this new driver work on the ATI X1550?

-dav7

JGC · 2008-10-17 22:12:39

I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.

SyXbiT · 2008-10-18 03:24:45

great job JGC

what a mess ATI have created!

luciferin · 2008-10-18 03:42:21

JGC wrote:

I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Hooray! I'm rather curious, did you have to rip these files out of the Ubuntu release or did ATI give you special access also? I'm guess the former since I've seen no rumblings on the mailing lists.

SyXbiT wrote:

great job JGC
what a mess ATI have created!

They sure have. I've had a lot of faith in them with everything, but this is getting a little to awkward even for me.

thayer · 2008-10-18 03:54:36

JGC wrote:

I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Using the latest from testing, I am still unable to get X going without disabling the Rgbpath.

Wintervenom · 2008-10-18 03:55:52

JGC wrote:

I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.

[Bows.]

JGC · 2008-10-18 07:29:47

thayer wrote:

JGC wrote:
I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.
Using the latest from testing, I am still unable to get X going without disabling the Rgbpath.

Does it look like you should set the RgbPath? We've discouraged to set that option since X.Org went modular already, this version doesn't even use it anymore and rfuses to load when you have the entry set.

JGC · 2008-10-18 07:32:28

luciferin wrote:

JGC wrote:
I just released catalyst 8.11-0.1 in testing for i686, x86_64 will follow tomorrow. This is not 8.10 and also not 8.11, it's the same prerelease that is in Ubuntu Intrepid.
Hooray! I'm rather curious, did you have to rip these files out of the Ubuntu release or did ATI give you special access also? I'm guess the former since I've seen no rumblings on the mailing lists.

I took them from the Ubuntu FTP. Those are stripped down sources, but eventually they contain nearly the same files as an official tarball. I didn't get special permission from AMD for these drivers, but I don't care. Ubuntu has permission to redistribue them, and we have permission for all other versions to distribute, so I don't see a problem building binary packages using the ubuntu "sources".

SyXbiT · 2008-10-18 08:25:34

i switched to testing repo just because of this
I now get one error on boot, complaining about the line
RgbPath "usr/share/X11/rgb
removing it lets me start X

but performance is MUCH worse. major lagging when even moving a window, or scrolling down a webpage.
could this be an xorg setting? (i'm using the same xorg as before)

I tried radeonHD, which has decent 2D performance, but can't use compiz.

hating my ATI right now!

Zap · 2008-10-18 09:11:20

Dri don't work for me with 8.11 from testing.

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep "(EE)"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(EE) LoadModule: Module dri does not have a driModuleData data object.
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (invalid module, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) LoadModule: Module dri does not have a driModuleData data object.
(EE) fglrx: Failed to load module "dri" (invalid module, 0)
(EE) fglrx(0): DRI module is not loaded.
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.
$ glxgears
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request:  10
  Current serial number in output stream:  10
$ pacman 
local/catalyst 8.11-0.1
    Proprietary AMD/ATI kernel drivers for Radeon brand cards. Stock kernel.
local/catalyst-utils 8.11-0.1
    Proprietary AMD/ATI userspace tools and libraries for Radeon brand cards.
local/xorg-server 1.5.2-3 (xorg)
    X.Org X servers
local/xorg-server-utils 7.3-1
    X.Org utilities required by xorg-server

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JGC · 2008-10-18 10:26:07

Could you check which file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so is linked to? If it's linked to libglx.xorg, it's a bug. If it's linked to libdri.ati, the fix is to link it to libdri.xorg, if it's linked to libdri.xorg, the fix is to link to libdri.ati.
Please let me know which things you did to fix this so I can update the package and move everything to extra.

aboe · 2008-10-18 12:42:51

the file file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so is linked to libglx.ati...which is also wrong,

when I link libdri.so to libdri.ati everything works but glxinfo gives errors:
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 144 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13

In the ati control center it also states no opengl name ..
but dri is enabled in my xorg

(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 2.0

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Misfit138 · 2008-10-18 12:49:28

JGC wrote:

I didn't get special permission from AMD for these drivers, but I don't care...

I love this guy. Go JGC!

JGC · 2008-10-18 13:19:55

Try doing the most awful solution known to me:
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri

That should make the ATI DRI drivers working again. Their libGL.so is trying to load it from the wrong location.

aboe · 2008-10-18 13:58:00

JGC: that works...

hope it helps you fix the driver in this way...
if you need more information,

I'll try to help,

luciferin · 2008-10-18 14:12:02

JGC wrote:

Try doing the most awful solution known to me:
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri
That should make the ATI DRI drivers working again. Their libGL.so is trying to load it from the wrong location.

I had to do both of these things, now DRI and compiz work:

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.xorg /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri

A big thank you again to JGC! I'll do a hunt for any more bugs now

SyXbiT · 2008-10-18 15:54:59

JGC wrote:

ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.xorg /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri /usr/lib/dri

that fixed some stuff

i still get an error (and have to comment out) RgbPath "usr/share/X11/rgb" under FILES in xorg.conf
also, if i try to maximize VLC while playing a video, it takes about 8 seconds, and is then all blurry for about another 3. (in metacity)
Also have the common problem of major video tearing in any video that isn't fullscreen (in compiz)

any ideas?

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