The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

MazurMe · 2009-03-30 12:54:13

Catalyst 9.4.03 from AUR was patched by kensai for kernel 2.6.29. Anybody tried? How it works with kWin, Compiz?

kensai · 2009-03-30 13:19:43

MazurMe wrote:

Catalyst 9.4.03 from AUR was patched by kensai for kernel 2.6.29. Anybody tried? How it works with kWin, Compiz?

well, I was not the one that patched it, but fixed the line only, but it works well, I was suing it flawlessly until yesterday, I upgraded to the latest mesa and catalyst do not work anymore.

Ranguvar · 2009-03-30 14:48:33

kensai wrote:

I was suing it flawlessly until yesterday, I upgraded to the latest mesa and catalyst do not work anymore.

Well, keep suing them and I'm sure they'll fix it soon -- trust me, I'm American, woot

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kensai · 2009-03-30 14:54:51

Ranguvar wrote:

kensai wrote:
I was suing it flawlessly until yesterday, I upgraded to the latest mesa and catalyst do not work anymore.
Well, keep suing them and I'm sure they'll fix it soon -- trust me, I'm American, woot

Nice advice, that'll teach 'em

MazurMe · 2009-03-30 21:47:03

Can you tell me guys how looks Catalyst on x86_64? Is it using lib32? I remember that there was something like that in catalyst 9.* or am I wrong? Thanks.

bobdob · 2009-03-30 21:57:00

I am using Catalyst 9.3 from AUR on x86_64 and it seems to work find.

lman · 2009-03-30 22:27:28

I'm using catalyst 9.4 and xorg 1.6 on x86_64 with hd 4850 (rv770).
Mostly negative things after 8.12:
- I get half of the fps I used to get with glxgears
- composite for me with xfce 4.6 is still not working... after coming from fullscreen when watching a movie the whole X hangs - this happened with 8.12, too
- IF composite is enabled desktop switching is still 10x slower than without composite on xfce
- X starts a little bit slower
One positive thing though... it feels a little bit faster
well.. i think that's all. I hope those free drivers get soon 3d acceleration for rv7xx.

I tried 9.3 too, but that was a total catastrofy, the whole system hung after a restart.

jun · 2009-03-30 22:29:31

I can confirm that catalyst 9.3 in AUR (catalyst-old) works great in x86_64. You will need to install catalyst-utils-old (also from AUR) first.

kensai · 2009-03-31 01:46:06

Mesa has nothing to do with ATI, I was so mislead in my previous post, the catalyst driver was not working because of opther thing, I did not knew about. I backed everything up and reinstalled and all is working fine.

alecmg · 2009-04-06 20:57:55

Catalyst-old works great
but one bug is still bugging me (was same in 8.12)

When I logout or ctrl-alt-bksp out of my DE, system hangs on next attempt of xinit. It doesn't hang if I do "modprobe -r fglrx && modprobe fglrx" before xinit command - basically reloading fglrx driver.

This is not normal behaviour and is quite annoying.

suli · 2009-04-15 12:52:25

But catalyst-old not suport xorg-server 1.6 or I am wrong?

bobdob · 2009-04-15 15:15:15

No it doesn't. You have to use xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd if you want use xorg-server 1.6.

the_isz · 2009-04-15 15:27:39

bobdob wrote:

No it doesn't. You have to use xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd if you want use xorg-server 1.6.

Ahm... or the catalyst and catalyst-utils packages from AUR. For me, they work better than anything since 8.10. Since then, I wasn't able to connect
my TV to my graphic card without the X-server getting stuck upon starting. So not only did I have to boot to window$ to watch videos on my tv, but
I also had to remember to unplug that cable before starting arch. VERY frustrating, I tell you.

Since 9.3, everything is fine. I still can't use compiz because this one OpenGL extension seems not to be recognized properly, but that problem is a)
old news and b) not a major problem in my eyes.

bobdob · 2009-04-15 15:42:23

the_isz wrote:

Ahm... or the catalyst and catalyst-utils packages from AUR.

True, but 9.04 only supports r6xx and up.

Anyway, I switched to xf86-video-ati and every thing I need seems to work ok with my x1950 pro.

Wintervenom · 2009-04-15 17:45:10

Does the X Server that just got put into [extra] break the driver for you?
After installing the xorg-server that just appeared in the repos, it keeps freezing up before GDM can even boot.

Never mind. I had to re-install catalyst-utils.

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Wintervenom · 2009-04-17 18:21:07

Catalyst 9.4 is out. [Download] [Release Notes] [Phoronix Coverage]

MazurMe · 2009-04-17 20:03:32

Good day for ATI users, Alex Deucher from Novell is announcing the release of the initial 3D driver
for R6xx/R7xx hardware and it is available on the r6xx-r7xx-support branch of mesa: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/? … xx-support
Here you can find more information about it, http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/2009 … 00162.html .

kensai · 2009-04-17 20:05:35

Wintervenom wrote:

Catalyst 9.4 is out. [Download] [Release Notes] [Phoronix Coverage]

I already commited the driver to AUR, it is working fine so far. I got 15FPS boost in fgl_glxgears.

superrad · 2009-04-17 20:32:03

Just about to install the new catalyst drivers, first time I've used fglrx on arch. Any changes I need to make to my xorg.conf (except switching "radeonhd" for "fglrx")? http://pastebin.com/m3b6a9fda

Also getting an error when trying to install, catalyst-utils conflicts with libgl. I'm guessing catalyst provides it's own version of libgl so it's safe to force pacman to remove it?

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MazurMe · 2009-04-17 21:53:06

It was safe for me, just did pacman -Rd libgl and it works fine. If you want to generate Xorg.conf, you can use 'aticonfig'.

superrad · 2009-04-17 22:22:25

It's installed now but now saying this:

missing dependency for ati-dri : libgl>=7.4

and if i try to install libgl it says it conflicts with catalyst-utils, is there a certain version i need to install from aur?

kensai · 2009-04-17 22:34:01

that is telling you that ati-dri is missing a dependency because it needs libgl and you removed it, because catalyst-utils provides it, so remove the open source driver and with it will go the ati-dri package, which is not needed anymore.

superrad · 2009-04-17 22:50:49

ah ok thanks, wasn't sure if ati-dri was part of catalyst

xaff · 2009-04-25 08:31:13

Did anyone actually manage to run xf86-video-ati with dri enabled? This is so frustrating.

flamelab · 2009-04-25 08:51:06

DRI is always enabled. If you see the official package, it has --enable-dri.

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