[Catalyst 9.10] Finally it works!

fredo696 · 2009-10-29 13:19:36

Hi all

Just to let you know (and because I'm happy ) :

I've just managed to install the official Catalyst 9.10 and make them work on my machine (before that I was using the RadeonHD driver) :

Arch64
RadeonHD 4850 (single LCD monitor LG Flatron W2361V, 1920x1080 resolution)
Kernel 2.6.31 (official Arch kernel, no patches)

The Catalyst installer worked fine and the modules were compiled without problem, however even after an "aticonfig --initial", X wouldn't start (couldn't find the fglrx driver)
so I added the line :

ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" in the "Files" section
(yep, the Ati installer didn't do the modification itself)

and restart X, then the fglrx driver was found, but would crash with another error

Finally I solved the problem by adding the "DefaultDepth 24" line in the "Screen" section

In the end, here's my working xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"                                                                                                              
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"                                                                                            
EndSection                                                                                                                         

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0     
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

#       Option  "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection                    

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" #default module path
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" #path to the fglrx module on my Arch64 system
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"  
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" 
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"            
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"          
EndSection                                             

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dri2"
        Load  "glx" 
        Load  "record"
        Load  "extmod"
EndSection            

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"      
        Option  "xkbLayout"     "fr"
        Option  "xkbModel"      "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        Option  "DPMS"  "true"
#       Option  "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

#       Option  "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        Option  "DRI"   "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24   # fglrx would crash without this line!
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
#               Modes   "1920x1080" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option  "Composite"     "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group   0
        Mode    0666
EndSection

speed improvement is great, even in 2D
video playback is perfect
haven't tried 3D games yet

timetrap · 2009-10-29 13:30:01

Full screen youtube is within your grasp!

fredo696 · 2009-10-29 13:36:58

I had it with the radeon driver already

apart from thar, my xorg.xonf may need some more tweaking, for the KDE4 desktop effects to work

sc3252 · 2009-10-31 14:17:57

Thank you sir! bumping for getting me out of my screen resolution nightmare. I am new to arch and was just about to call it quits when I finally found this thread. Usually I don't have such a hard time fixing these errors, but I couldn't see anything with the vesa drivers.:D

byte · 2009-10-31 14:26:50

" [Catalyst 9.10] Finally it works!" ... unless you're running xorg-server 1.7 from [testing]

najsik · 2009-11-01 18:10:47

byte wrote:

" [Catalyst 9.10] Finally it works!" ... unless you're running xorg-server 1.7 from [testing]

so in other words you should avoid updating anytime soon

Lich · 2009-11-01 18:26:50

This is good news, I may try to get away from radeonhd too, I need Blender and it's horrid with my current confiiguration...

Dheart · 2009-11-01 20:06:03

Pics or it never happened! As far as I know catalyst only works "somewhere over the web" but not on my machine xD...

sc3252 · 2009-11-02 10:43:35

najsik wrote:

byte wrote:
" [Catalyst 9.10] Finally it works!" ... unless you're running xorg-server 1.7 from [testing]
so in other words you should avoid updating anytime soon

Yeah I got hit by it. I wasn't paying attention to what was updating. It was not that hard to fix for myself, just removed xorg-server and the two dependencies and reinstalled the old version. Of course if you clean your cache consistently that could be a problem.

fredo696 · 2009-12-26 17:48:20

hi guys...

I didn't work for long!!

I've reverted back to the "good" old xorg-radeon driver. Since some xorg update, I've also lost fullscreen video

no big deal, i'll wait for 2.6.32...

fredo696 · 2009-12-29 13:23:24

Fullscreen video playback is back with today's X and xorg ati drivers update

Arch Linux

#1 2009-10-29 13:19:36

[Catalyst 9.10] Finally it works!

#2 2009-10-29 13:30:01

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