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#6501 2014-04-27 10:48:18

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

doblerone wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:

remove ati-dri and lib32-ati-dri

Sorry for the newbie question, but just the packages or also their dependencies? I mean

sudo pacman -R ati-dri lib32-ati-dri

or

sudo pacman -Rs ati-dri lib32-ati-dri

sorry i ended yesterday on my last post, you can Rs

Lord Aro wrote:

Do I still need to be using xorg 1.14 (the repo) with the latest catalyst? There seems to be conflicting reports regarding its support

No, you don't. catalyst 14.4 is doing well with xserver 1.15

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2014-04-27 10:48:29)

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#6502 2014-04-27 11:13:16

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:
Lord Aro wrote:

Do I still need to be using xorg 1.14 (the repo) with the latest catalyst? There seems to be conflicting reports regarding its support

No, you don't. catalyst 14.4 is doing well with xserver 1.15

Excellent, thanks smile

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#6503 2014-04-27 11:47:53

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:
doblerone wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:

remove ati-dri and lib32-ati-dri

Sorry for the newbie question, but just the packages or also their dependencies? I mean

sudo pacman -R ati-dri lib32-ati-dri

or

sudo pacman -Rs ati-dri lib32-ati-dri

sorry i ended yesterday on my last post, you can Rs

Thanks Vi0L0, my system is updated right now. Although ati-dri was not found, I removed lib32-ati-dri and I could update my machine smile

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#6504 2014-04-27 17:33:34

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

During today's update I get:

lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem

Is it safe to remove them before updating?


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#6505 2014-04-27 18:24:05

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

PhotonX wrote:

During today's update I get:

lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1 existiert im Dateisystem

Is it safe to remove them before updating?

Same here.
I did a pacman -R 'lib32-catalyst-utils'
After that I updated the System (pacman -Syu), then I could install the lib32-catalyst-utils and lib32-catalyst-libgl without problems.


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#6506 2014-04-27 19:10:04

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Yes, this update is showing and fixing some odd problem with symlinks. I noticed it when switching from lib32-catalyst-utils to catalyst-test and decided to correct it. Like said this update is fixing so you won't notice such problem in the future.
Like luz1 noticed you can reinstall lib32-catalyst-utils or use --force option of pacman to overwrite files, it's safe.

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2014-04-27 19:11:11)

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#6507 2014-04-28 02:51:32

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

It seems like there's been some changes in the repo from what I've been reading.  I'm also having a couple strange issue that I've posted about and got no replies, which leads me to think it's a problem on my end.  So, Vi0L0, would you mind posting up a list of the packages that should be installed for the latest catalyst driver (14.4 with the catalyst-hook method).  Thanks smile

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#6508 2014-04-28 05:36:28

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

When trying to update I get:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1 exists in filesystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1 exists in filesystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
ben@arch-desktop:~$ sudo pacman -R lib32-catalyst-utils
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: lib32-catalyst-libgl: requires lib32-catalyst-utils

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#6509 2014-04-28 06:48:38

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

hippieben wrote:

It seems like there's been some changes in the repo from what I've been reading.  I'm also having a couple strange issue that I've posted about and got no replies, which leads me to think it's a problem on my end.  So, Vi0L0, would you mind posting up a list of the packages that should be installed for the latest catalyst driver (14.4 with the catalyst-hook method).  Thanks smile

There was some symlinks fix and symlinks change which made packages better suited to the mesa standard, also catalyst-libgl package gained experimental powerXpress support, but nothing more. There's no change in catalysts package list. If you want to install whole catalysts pack you need to install:

i686:
pacman -Syu catalyst-hook catalyst-utils catalyst-libgl opencl-catalyst

x86_64:
pacman -Syu catalyst-hook catalyst-utils catalyst-libgl opencl-catalyst lib32-catalyst-utils lib32-catalyst-libgl lib32-opencl-catalyst
hippieben wrote:

When trying to update I get:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1 exists in filesystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1 exists in filesystem
lib32-catalyst-utils: /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
ben@arch-desktop:~$ sudo pacman -R lib32-catalyst-utils
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: lib32-catalyst-libgl: requires lib32-catalyst-utils

like said above there are three ways to fix it, every single one should work:
1st method:
if there's no more file conflicts you can use:

pacman -Su --force

2nd method:
is to remove and install again lib32-catalyst-utils package

3rd method:
is to remove conflicting files manually, and then update

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2014-04-28 06:53:53)

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#6510 2014-04-28 12:00:57

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Lord Aro wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:
Lord Aro wrote:

Do I still need to be using xorg 1.14 (the repo) with the latest catalyst? There seems to be conflicting reports regarding its support

No, you don't. catalyst 14.4 is doing well with xserver 1.15

Excellent, thanks smile

little warning though - if you use xbmc, get sdl-nobackingstore from the AUR or you'll have tearing during video playback with xorg 1.15 smile

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#6511 2014-04-28 19:59:17

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

H-Bloxx wrote:
Kuci wrote:
ameer wrote:

Downgrading GDM didn't solve segfault btw. Any ideas?

Did you downgrade libgdm as well ?

By the way, it is nice to see AMD is really working on their drivers nowadays. With Catalyst 14.4 RC, graphic glitches I used to had in Chromium are gone.


I'm experiencing the same segfault. By downgrading gdm and libgdb to 3.10 it works again.

Thanks for the tip.

Thanks, but that didn't work for me either, I still have the seg fault with other error in the logs. Worth mentioning that I have hybrid graphic with both Intel HD 4400 and AMD Radeon HD 8850M. The error I have is when I downgraded to GDM and libGDM 3.10:

Apr 28 22:22:50 encrypted gdm[670]: Failed to set slave bus name on parent: Timeout was reached
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 705
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 706
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 707
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] IRQ 66 Enabled
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000 
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:f838000, size:4000 
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:f83c000, size:4c4000 
Apr 28 22:22:57 encrypted kernel: <6>[fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:7fff4000, size:c000 
Apr 28 22:22:59 encrypted gdm[670]: Child process 690 was already dead.
Apr 28 22:22:59 encrypted gdm[670]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 28 22:22:59 encrypted gdm[670]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 28 22:23:24 encrypted gdm[670]: Failed to set slave bus name on parent: Timeout was reached
Apr 28 22:23:24 encrypted acpid[374]: client 690[0:0] has disconnected
Apr 28 22:23:24 encrypted acpid[374]: client connected from 1119[0:0]
Apr 28 22:23:24 encrypted acpid[374]: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 28 22:23:26 encrypted gdm[670]: Child process 1119 was already dead.
Apr 28 22:23:26 encrypted gdm[670]: GLib-GObject: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 28 22:23:26 encrypted gdm[670]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
Apr 28 22:23:29 encrypted acpid[374]: client 1119[0:0] has disconnected

Btw, when I downgraded GDM both Intel and AMD don't work. I tried to downgrade everything gnome related with no luck.

With the latest update I still have seg error with AMD.

Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Backtrace:
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x48) [0x584b08]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x1887f9) [0x5887f9]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f79a6c38000+0xf880) [0x7f79a6c47880]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f79a0b16000+0x40a7b4) [0x7f79a0f207b4]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f79a0b16000+0x40a34f) [0x7f79a0f2034f]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x66ecc) [0x466ecc]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86LoadModules+0xba) [0x47684a]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x7bf) [0x47707f]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x398bb) [0x4398bb]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 9: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f79a58afb05]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 10: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x2507e) [0x42507e]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: Fatal server error:
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: at http://wiki.x.org
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: for help.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm[3546]: Child process 3551 was already dead.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm[3546]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.388471 seconds

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#6512 2014-04-28 20:16:31

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

I think that I will move this 14.4 to stable...
Edit: done, like said archive repo is called [catalyst-stable-13.12]

gotjazz wrote:
Lord Aro wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:

No, you don't. catalyst 14.4 is doing well with xserver 1.15

Excellent, thanks smile

little warning though - if you use xbmc, get sdl-nobackingstore from the AUR or you'll have tearing during video playback with xorg 1.15 smile

oh, thx, good to know smile

ameer wrote:

Thanks, but that didn't work for me either, I still have the seg fault with other error in the logs. Worth mentioning that I have hybrid graphic with both Intel HD 4400 and AMD Radeon HD 8850M. The error I have is when I downgraded to GDM and libGDM 3.10:

btw seen this? not sure if it was fixed:

Vi0L0 wrote:

BTW from catalyst-test-pxp:
Comment by vantu5z
X don't start with xf86-video-intel-2.99.911-1-x86_64.
with xf86-video-intel-2.99.910-1-x86_64 is ok.

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2014-04-28 21:39:34)

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#6513 2014-04-28 20:23:37

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:
ameer wrote:

Thanks, but that didn't work for me either, I still have the seg fault with other error in the logs. Worth mentioning that I have hybrid graphic with both Intel HD 4400 and AMD Radeon HD 8850M. The error I have is when I downgraded to GDM and libGDM 3.10:

btw seen this? not sure if it was fixed:

Vi0L0 wrote:

BTW from catalyst-test-pxp:
Comment by vantu5z
X don't start with xf86-video-intel-2.99.911-1-x86_64.
with xf86-video-intel-2.99.910-1-x86_64 is ok.

Yep. The version I have is 2.99.910-1. Have been ignoring xf86-video-intel update for a while but I tried everything. Don't think it has been fixed anyway.

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#6514 2014-04-29 18:09:06

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Anyone experiencing "lag" with the 14.4 update? What I mean by this is moving windows around tends to be laggy, and it seems like the buffer doesn't properly refresh.

Example of the refresh issue: http://i.imgur.com/bxiNN9P.png This window wasn't there when the screenshot was taken (disregard the out of place shadow, it's an issue with compton). I've had this issue on other distributions, but never Arch. I've Googled around but can never find an actual resolution for this. I run a simple Openbox setup, so it's not like it's all that graphically intensive. I also updated to Xorg 1.15 hoping that'd help in some way, but it made no difference. I'm hoping Vi0L0 knows some kind of fix for this because he's done an outstanding job making sure Catalyst runs the way it should. Also, I apologize if this has been answered somewhere in this thread. I just have no idea what to search for on Google when it comes to this issue.

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#6515 2014-04-30 12:30:59

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

This update works very well for me on gnome shell 3.12, I only disabled vblank on /etc/environment, and enabled force vsync con amdccl , and all works fine, no lag, very stable performance.

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#6516 2014-04-30 16:04:07

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When playing flash videos, I'm getting artifacts elsewhere on the screen.

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#6517 2014-04-30 16:11:13

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

gdm still doesn't work for me, i get segfaults.
I downgraded to 3.10 version, gdm starts but it needs a lot of time. (boot process about 50 sec.)
In the logs i could only find this:

gdm[332]: Failed to set slave bus name on parent: Zeitüberschreitung wurde erreicht


Another thing wich bothers me since i'm using catalyst is the not-smooth-scrolling.
3d-applications work well, but scrolling in Firefox is horrible.

Any suggestions out there, how to get fluent 2d performance?

My card is R7 260X

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#6518 2014-04-30 22:03:59

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

pandev93 wrote:

I only disabled vblank on /etc/environment

How did you do this? I've been looking around for what to put in there but can't seem to find it. Also keep in mind that I'm only running a window manager, but I have no idea if that makes a difference or not.

lemondreas wrote:

Another thing wich bothers me since i'm using catalyst is the not-smooth-scrolling.
3d-applications work well, but scrolling in Firefox is horrible.

I don't have this issue with 2D applications. Firefox scrolling is perfectly fine. I don't quite understand why these problems vary so much among people.

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#6519 2014-05-01 00:24:03

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

ameer wrote:

Thanks, but that didn't work for me either, I still have the seg fault with other error in the logs. Worth mentioning that I have hybrid graphic with both Intel HD 4400 and AMD Radeon HD 8850M. The error I have is when I downgraded to GDM and libGDM 3.10:
With the latest update I still have seg error with AMD.

Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Backtrace:
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x48) [0x584b08]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x1887f9) [0x5887f9]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f79a6c38000+0xf880) [0x7f79a6c47880]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f79a0b16000+0x40a7b4) [0x7f79a0f207b4]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f79a0b16000+0x40a34f) [0x7f79a0f2034f]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x66ecc) [0x466ecc]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86LoadModules+0xba) [0x47684a]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x7bf) [0x47707f]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x398bb) [0x4398bb]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 9: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f79a58afb05]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) 10: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x2507e) [0x42507e]
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: Fatal server error:
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: at http://wiki.x.org
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: for help.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE)
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm-Xorg-:0[3551]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm[3546]: Child process 3551 was already dead.
Apr 28 22:29:50 encrypted gdm[3546]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.388471 seconds

I'm getting this exact same segfault since updating sad AMD E-350 here (HD6310).

Seems to be GDM specific, SLiM works fine.

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#6520 2014-05-01 08:48:15

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

All the years, before I got a new computer this year, I configured something in GRUB to disable KMS for the Catalyst driver and/or I disabled radeon and radeonfb in modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. I didn't do anything of one of them on my new computer, because A) don't know how to do that with UEFI/Gummiboot, B) I did not see anything in the Wiki guide.

I'm asking because I wonder, if this is a problem. I mean, I get radeon error messages in systemd, when booting. Also Metro: Last Light and Kerbal Space Program do freeze my PC. Do I really not have to do anything like disable KMS or disable radeon?

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#6521 2014-05-01 09:02:21

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

ChemBro wrote:

All the years, before I got a new computer this year, I configured something in GRUB to disable KMS for the Catalyst driver and/or I disabled radeon and radeonfb in modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. I didn't do anything of one of them on my new computer, because A) don't know how to do that with UEFI/Gummiboot, B) I did not see anything in the Wiki guide.

I'm asking because I wonder, if this is a problem. I mean, I get radeon error messages in systemd, when booting. Also Metro: Last Light and Kerbal Space Program do freeze my PC. Do I really not have to do anything like disable KMS or disable radeon?

You'll still need to disable radeon via modprobe's blacklist as far as I'm aware, although generally that would cause fglrx not to load rather than random crashes later.

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#6522 2014-05-01 10:05:25

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

It should work fine without nomodesetting and not blacklisting radeon - just checked, seemed fine. Xserver is chosing fglrx way because it has fglrx inside xorg.conf, I only don't like that radeon module was unnecessary loaded tongue. Believe that it's safer and better to not load it, so either add radeon.modeset=0 to the kernel options of boot loader or blacklist it in modprobe.
Btw like said above I also got problems with metro ll, so it's most probably the catalysts fault, dont have kerbal though.

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2014-05-01 10:10:25)

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#6523 2014-05-01 11:25:09

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Joomla12 wrote:

Anyone experiencing "lag" with the 14.4 update? What I mean by this is moving windows around tends to be laggy, and it seems like the buffer doesn't properly refresh.

Yes and I assume that on my macine it is because the fglrx module can't be built (and then systemd probably going to the fallback graphics).

# journalctl -b -p err

systemd-modules-load[138]: Failed to find module 'fglrx'

$ tail -20 /var/log/catalyst-install.log
gives me (roughly translated)

--------
2014-05-01 13:05:40
Building fglrx module for 3.14.2-1-ARCH kernel ...
--------
OsVersion says: SMP=1
file /proc/kallsyms says: SMP=1
file /usr/lib/modules/3.14.2-1-ARCH/build/include/generated/autoconf.h says: SMP=1
file /usr/lib/modules/3.14.2-1-ARCH/build/include/generated/autoconf.h says: MODVERSIONS=1
file /usr/lib/modules/3.14.2-1-ARCH/build/arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h says: COMPAT_ALLOC_USER_SPACE=arch_compat_alloc_user_space
make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.2-1-ARCH/build'
Makefile:615: Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong not supported by compiler
  CC [M]  /tmp/catalyst.O52gkF/firegl_public.o
gcc:Error: unknown commandline option »-fstack-protector-strong«
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/tmp/catalyst.O52gkF/firegl_public.o' failed
make[1]: *** [/tmp/catalyst.O52gkF/firegl_public.o] Error 1
Makefile:1274: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/catalyst.O52gkF' failed
make: *** [_module_/tmp/catalyst.O52gkF] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/3.14.2-1-ARCH/build'

Seems to be a problem with catalyst-hook and gcc.
A reinstall of the whole catalyst stack had no effect.

EDIT: Googling "fstack-protector-strong" revealed that it is a gcc 4.9 feature whereas I am on outdated gcc 4.8.2-8.
4.9 is on testing, so I hope it comes soon. I think I rather wait than switching to the testing repo.

Last edited by Caldazar (2014-05-01 11:55:04)


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#6524 2014-05-01 12:34:27

ChemBro
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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Caldazar wrote:

EDIT: Googling "fstack-protector-strong" revealed that it is a gcc 4.9 feature whereas I am on outdated gcc 4.8.2-8.
4.9 is on testing, so I hope it comes soon. I think I rather wait than switching to the testing repo.

You're right. I opened up testing only to install gcc (and multilib; and I know you shouldn't do it) and that fixed that.

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#6525 2014-05-01 12:50:45

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

I'm trying to install guest utils to share folders from Archlinux to a VM with windows, but I can't install it.

[david@archdavid:~]$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils
resolviendo dependencias...
verificando conflictos...
error: error al preparar la transacción (no se pudieron satisfacer las dependencias)
:: catalyst-total-hd234k: necesita xorg-server<1.13.0

But I could install virtualbox-guest-modules without problems

My system is up-to-date right now. How can I solve this?

Last edited by doblerone (2014-05-01 12:56:55)

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