The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

ilusi0n · 2011-01-26 18:19:17

It was already updated in AUR. You just need to have patience

Vi0L0 · 2011-01-26 18:21:17

All stable catalyst AUR's packages were updated, i didn't check them all - but should be ok
Now i will build i686 packages, and update repo...

Catalyst 11.1:
- official kernel support up to 2.6.37 (works fine also on 2.6.38rc2)
- new amdcccle option, let me translate umm... "distortion/deformation elimination" - anyway something like enhanced v-sync ;P edit: aaahh so now everything is v-synced, just like in oss radeon, nice, already like it

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Apollo Costa · 2011-01-26 18:29:43

thx ViOLO. This version works correct with my 6850. unbelievable

Cdh · 2011-01-26 18:30:13

Vi0L0 wrote:

So i got a request to you Cdh: can you please test will it work with:
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'

Yes it does work.

Vi0L0 · 2011-01-26 18:38:36

Cdh wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:
So i got a request to you Cdh: can you please test will it work with:
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'
Yes it does work.

Thanks. Done

Edit: Haha ah! i cannot believe this - AMD just changed 11.1 driver so it's now in other version (was 8.81, is 8.812) and differs in many files, thats all after just 4-5 hours from premiere !
I guess update is a good idea... AUR was updated, repo soon will be

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Atondwal · 2011-01-27 14:19:18

Apollo Costa wrote:

thx ViOLO. This version works correct with my 6850. unbelievable

Awesome. I have the same chip (just got it this last month) and I was ticked at the drivers. Hopefully 11.1 will help ?

foutrelis · 2011-01-27 19:49:43

And I now experience the bug where the screen becomes corrupt after exiting full screen (either from watching a YouTube video or playing World of Goo). I had the same problem in the past, but the last few releases were fine.

Anyone else seeing this?

Vi0L0 · 2011-01-27 21:27:33

foutrelis wrote:

And I now experience the bug where the screen becomes corrupt after exiting full screen (either from watching a YouTube video or playing World of Goo). I had the same problem in the past, but the last few releases were fine.
Anyone else seeing this?

Yep, just saw it on youtube <sigh>, too bad - i liked new amdcccle feature.. Occurs when "distortion/deformation elimination" (btw how its called originally in eng ccc?) in enabled.
Temp solution is going to tty and again to X -> then youtube is working correctly, at least for me.

Sometimes im also catching screen corruptions in games if compositing (kwin) is enabled.

fp29129 · 2011-01-27 22:58:02

Just updated catalyst-daemon and catalyst-utils to 11.1-2, also renewed xorg.conf via "aticonfig --initial --force" and had catalyst-daemon rebuild fglrx.
Could not start X anymore afterwards. startx command returned this (Xorg.0.log showed up the same):
http://pastebin.com/vCPyX8HR

The first error there is "Invalid video BIOS signature!". – Unfortunately, my notebook's (HP Pavilion dv6-3051sg WR779EA) BIOS has is no graphics related configuration option at all. (It has a discrete Mobility Radeon 5650 that cannot be used on Linux yet afaik and a chipset Mobility Radeon 4200 which worked fine with the previous Catalyst version 10.12. The notebook is a new one bought last Christmas and thus should be supported by new drivers).
Anyone experiencing the same problem? Is there a known solution, a patch, a special xorg.conf entry or something for this?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Dannyboy · 2011-01-28 07:35:17

Hello everyone,
I've followed the AUR instructions with catalyst 11.1-2 and catalyst-utils packages and they install 'successfully', but I still get a "No supported adapters detected" error when I try to run aticonfig --initial --force.
I'm coming from Ubuntu with limited xorg experience, so I could be missing something very simple. I've tried every xorg.conf setup and every installation method I could find, but no avail.
Apologies for the simple question and lack of experience but I'd appreciate any help!

ilusi0n · 2011-01-28 12:23:29

Maybe your video card is not supported? Hard to tell without know which video card you have.

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Dannyboy · 2011-01-28 22:28:09

6850 (apologies, I was reading the previous posts and neglected to specify).
AMD calls it supported and I've seen countless reports of others getting it working.
Thanks.

ilusi0n · 2011-01-29 01:57:36

I guess is not supported yet... at least is what their wiki says: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardwa … _Supported

edit: well unless someone knows how to put it worked. I don't know :\

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Vi0L0 · 2011-01-29 12:15:38

@fp29129:
it's pretty complex, maybe you should ask on phoronix forums or on #ati at freenode.

@Dannyboy:
here is some initial /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
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:1:0:0"
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

BusID could be different in your case, but give it a chance.

Just a few posts ago Apollo Costa wrote that his 6850 works correctly, so maybe try to email him .

dpc.ucore.info · 2011-01-29 16:27:20

I've installed 11.1 from [catalyst] repository and in amdcccle I can still see Catalyst Version 10.12 in the Information panel. My card is HD6850 and I still see the Unsupported hardware message at the bottom right corner.

I've tried removing evertyhing, rebooting, intalling catalyst-utils + catalyst-generator and several other options with no success.

Is it normal? Anything else to be done?

Tumi · 2011-01-29 18:13:14

Hi guys,

I've noticed something really strange today. I usually boot into GDM and there (nearly ) everything works great. Today I booted into the console because I want to solve this (the solution described doesn't work, but that's another story) and I found that I wasn't able to start X server simply by commands like xinit or startx or gnome-session. I always got this error message:

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@4:0:1) found

But in my xorg.conf (which is used) is BusID "PCI:04:00:00". The only working way how to start X server is launch GDM daemon... (I also tired KDM daemon and that works too.)

So where is the problem? GDM daemon works, but traditional ways to start X don't. Is this normal? Did I forget to configure something?

ilusi0n · 2011-01-29 18:35:44

dpc.ucore.info wrote:

I've installed 11.1 from [catalyst] repository and in amdcccle I can still see Catalyst Version 10.12 in the Information panel. My card is HD6850 and I still see the Unsupported hardware message at the bottom right corner.
I've tried removing evertyhing, rebooting, intalling catalyst-utils + catalyst-generator and several other options with no success.
Is it normal? Anything else to be done?

Have you tried this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … 7s_version?
About the message unsupported hardware no idea.

yimm · 2011-01-30 09:46:25

Anyone has the same problem with AMDOverdriveCtrl ?

The program 'AMDOverdriveCtrl' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 783 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0)

devadittya · 2011-01-30 22:50:10

I am on the latest catalyst.
I was about to do a pacman -Syu, when this happened:

 # pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 multilib is up to date
 catalyst is up to date
 core                                     36.6K   73.2K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100%
 extra                                   462.0K  387.8K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100%
 community                               420.3K  618.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst: requires kernel26<2.6.37
:: vhba-module: requires kernel26<2.6.37

Any ideas?

snack · 2011-01-30 23:04:01

Which kernel version are you using, devadittya? Seems you have 2.6.37 from [testing], I suppose (maybe you tried it and then removed [testing] from pacman.conf?)

phantazy · 2011-01-30 23:10:57

2.6.37 just arrived in [core]. Repo update is probably coming soon
Xorg 1.9.3.901 is also here, moved out from [testing] and now in [extra].

devadittya · 2011-01-31 01:15:32

snack wrote:

Which kernel version are you using, devadittya? Seems you have 2.6.37 from [testing], I suppose (maybe you tried it and then removed [testing] from pacman.conf?)

Nope, don't have testing at all.

[root@arch_devb devadittya]# uname -r
2.6.36-ARCH

I am behind the university proxy, and the university network is too complicated. I frequently have mirror refresh issues. It's probably linked to that. I'd wait for a few days.
Thanks anyways

snack · 2011-01-31 08:39:28

devadittya wrote:

Nope, don't have testing at all.
[root@arch_devb devadittya]# uname -r
2.6.36-ARCH

Strange, I'm having the opposite problem: I just tried to do pacman -Syu, kernele 2.6.37 is ready in [core] and pacman is willing to update it without finding any dependency issue with catalyst:

$ sudo pacman -Su
:: Aggiornamento del sistema in corso...
risoluzione delle dipendenze in corso...
ricerca di conflitti in corso...

Pacchetti (24): amule-10443-1  bluez-4.87-1  mkinitcpio-0.6.8-1  kernel26-2.6.37-5  kernel26-headers-2.6.37-5  catalyst-11.1-3  consolekit-0.4.3-1
                gmime-2.4.22-1  hunspell-1.2.15-1  kdepim-runtime-4.4.10-1  kdepim-libkdepim-4.4.10-1  kdepim-knotes-4.4.10-1  libdrm-2.4.23-1
                libva-1.0.8-1  mesa-7.10-1  openssh-5.7p1-2  python-3.1.3-2  qscintilla-2.4.6-6  rsync-3.0.7-2  shadow-4.1.4.2-4  texlive-core-2010.20954-2
                totem-plparser-2.32.2-1  xorg-server-common-1.9.3.901-1  xorg-server-1.9.3.901-1

Dimensione totale dei pacchetti da scaricare:    161,82 MB
Dimensione totale dei pacchetti da installare:   472,24 MB

Vuoi procedere con l'installazione? [S/n] n

It's in italian but I think it's clear that no conflict is found, even if catalyst requires kernel26<2.6.37:

$ pacman -Qi catalyst
Nome           : catalyst
Versione       : 11.1-2
URL            : http://www.ati.amd.com
Licenze        : custom
Gruppi         : Nessuno
Fornisce       : Nessuno
Dipende da     : kernel26>=2.6.36  kernel26<2.6.37  kernel26-headers  catalyst-utils=11.1  gcc-libs  gcc>4.0.0  make
Dip. opzionali : Nessuno
Richiesto da   : Nessuno
Conflitti con  : catalyst-test  nvidia  xf86-video-ati  xf86-video-radeonhd  ati-dri
Sostituisce    : Nessuno
Kb richiesti   : 2780,00 K
Autore         : Vi0L0 <vi0l093@gmail.com>
Architettura   : i686
Creato il      : mer 26 gen 2011 23:04:53 CET
Installato il  : gio 27 gen 2011 09:02:55 CET
Motivo         : Installato esplicitamente
Script install : Sì
Descrizione    : AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers for kernel26. fglrx kernel module only

Is this a bug in catalyst's PKGBUILD, in pacman or in my understanding of how the dependencies resolution works? I think I will stick with 2.6.36 for a bit more...

phantazy · 2011-01-31 09:12:50

@snack, you have catalyst-11.1-2 installed and the update manager is going to download catalyst-11.1-3, which is compiled against kernel 2.6.37. Vi0L0 updated the repo at 02:30, one hour after my post above. So, make sure you can safety upgrade now.

snack · 2011-01-31 09:22:46

phantazy wrote:

@snack, you have catalyst-11.1-2 installed and the update manager is going to download catalyst-11.1-3, which is compiled against kernel 2.6.37. Vi0L0 updated the repo at 02:30, one hour after my post above. So, make sure you can safety upgrade now.

Whoops, I didn't see it. A bad bad monday morning for me, sorry...
Thanks phantazy.

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