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#3801 2012-03-15 19:10:06

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

ratcheer wrote:

Maybe I just need to go back to Wilco's suggestion and remove xorg-server, then reinstall it and the 17 packages that depend on it.

I did that and everything seems to be back in order (I  hope). There may still be a two or three more packages to install, but all the interdependencies seem to be back in order.

Thanks!
Tim

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#3802 2012-03-18 01:24:35

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Just a quick post, my first one BTW. Just thought I should mention for all the other noobs on here : )
Today I tried to get my HDMI audio working with my laptop (ATI radeon 4200).
Long story short is I needed to add radeon.audio=1 to my my kernel line in my grub menu. (Spent all day figuring out why that didn't work)
Well the reason it didn't work is because I dual boot with ubuntu. I needed to edit the kernel line of the grub menu that was sitting  on the ubuntu partition, and success. One less headache, one more reason to not use ubuntu.

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#3803 2012-03-21 10:29:57

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

has any one used the new catalyst driver 12.3?


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#3804 2012-03-21 10:48:12

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

nowerries wrote:

Just a quick post, my first one BTW. Just thought I should mention for all the other noobs on here : )
Today I tried to get my HDMI audio working with my laptop (ATI radeon 4200).
Long story short is I needed to add radeon.audio=1 to my my kernel line in my grub menu. (Spent all day figuring out why that didn't work)
Well the reason it didn't work is because I dual boot with ubuntu. I needed to edit the kernel line of the grub menu that was sitting  on the ubuntu partition, and success. One less headache, one more reason to not use ubuntu.

Welcome aboard! Open source ATI drivers discussed in another thread:  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509

Cory_j wrote:

has any one used the new catalyst driver 12.3?

Can you provide download link?

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#3805 2012-03-21 10:53:13

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

reflexing wrote:
nowerries wrote:

Just a quick post, my first one BTW. Just thought I should mention for all the other noobs on here : )
Today I tried to get my HDMI audio working with my laptop (ATI radeon 4200).
Long story short is I needed to add radeon.audio=1 to my my kernel line in my grub menu. (Spent all day figuring out why that didn't work)
Well the reason it didn't work is because I dual boot with ubuntu. I needed to edit the kernel line of the grub menu that was sitting  on the ubuntu partition, and success. One less headache, one more reason to not use ubuntu.

Welcome aboard! Open source ATI drivers discussed in another thread:  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79509

Cory_j wrote:

has any one used the new catalyst driver 12.3?

Can you provide download link?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/e … linux.aspx


Arch Mint Winfail7

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#3806 2012-03-21 11:18:25

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#3807 2012-03-22 06:56:12

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

My laptop has an integrated Intel graphic chip together with the ATi Mobility HD5650.
X Server 1.11.4 & catalyst 12.2
when I run `sudo aticonfig --initial`
This error throw:

PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib/fglrx/switchlibGL': No such file or directory

and `startx` fails. I find the intel module is tried to be loaded at the same time.
Xorg.0.log: http://hpaste.org/65657
xorg.conf: http://hpaste.org/65655
any idea ?

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#3808 2012-03-22 08:34:33

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

@caasi: Blacklist the intel module and modprobe fglrx

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#3809 2012-03-22 08:59:42

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thanks for your answer.
how to Blacklist the intel ? and How about the PowerXpress error.
It should be switchable if the switchlibGL exists and works. I don't know why the Catalyst didn't create the script (seemingly two scripts) automatically ???

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#3810 2012-03-22 10:22:09

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Don't know if switching can work because libgl is incompatible with the catalyst drivers but probably needed for the intel driver.

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#3811 2012-03-23 06:40:15

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

So do we have any time frame on Catalyst supporting the new xorg packages?  Everything seems to be working well for me with my 4870x2 in KDE and I would hate to add repos only to have support added shortly after...

Also I've noticed that I'm getting a horizontal line of tearing with x264 .mkv files (whether smplayer or vlc) with my 4870x2.  This doesn't happen with .avi files.  I may have noticed before at some point in time but it's been a while since I've watched an mkv.  Anyone get this?  I'm currently using gl (fast, ati cards) as the output driver, though changing it doesn't seem to affect it.

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#3812 2012-03-23 08:54:11

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

caasi wrote:

thanks for your answer.
how to Blacklist the intel ? and How about the PowerXpress error.
It should be switchable if the switchlibGL exists and works. I don't know why the Catalyst didn't create the script (seemingly two scripts) automatically ???

Haven't seen this pXp error for such a long time... rly wasn't missing this pXp shit. Wondering now if this error appear only on PCs with switchable gfx or not...

It's easy to find info about how to blacklist module on Arch - just search for it.
Using pXp is whole different story - it's complex and almost always not working piece of a crap :-)
But if you want you can search this forum (few months ago) and find what we've found about it and maybe try to improve this situation.
Here:
http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/tarball/11.5/
you will find catalyst-total-pxp.tar.gz file which contain some of my work on this topic. Look at the differences in packaging - here libgl package could coexist with catalyst, look at the pxp_switch_catalyst and switchlib* scripts - i believe this could be usefull. Maybe this wasn't a good work (mainly because i don't have switchable hardware) but afaik you won't find anything better on arch. It should be easy to update to newest catalyst - just use diff and search for differences in packaging (there should not be many of them). Good luck

And btw right now i'm away from my pc and i'm not able to help you more, maybe tomorrow i will look at this pXp error and try to find some workaround.

DarksideEE7 wrote:

So do we have any time frame on Catalyst supporting the new xorg packages?

afaik no

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#3813 2012-03-23 09:29:04

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

@Vi0L0
I read your post about catalyst-total-pxp but I'm afraid it's not a good solution now (maybe out of date). As for blacklist the intel integrated graphics card, `blacklist intel` in the /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf according this article  is not an effective solution because the intel module is always being tried to be loaded once the intel gfx card is detected.

[  1626.058] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intel

[  1626.058] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)

[  1626.058] (WW) fglrx: Fail to load intel driver!

really thanks for your work.

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#3814 2012-03-23 09:59:35

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Try to create ie. /lib/modprobe.d/catalyst.conf with "blacklist" entry, pls tell us did it work :>

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#3815 2012-03-23 17:00:31

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:

Try to create ie. /lib/modprobe.d/catalyst.conf with "blacklist" entry, pls tell us did it work :>

It doesn't work neither /lib/modprobe.d/ nor /etc/modprobe.d/ . maybe because the intel module is required but it doesn't exit actually(make no sense whether blacklist it or not).
Now I deactivate the intel gfx card in BIOS so I can kill some big ERRORS. But I still can't log into gnome. There's only a wallpaper on the screen when I ran `startx`. (I'm sure that module `fglrx` is loaded and the dbus is started.) But luckily, my mouse and touchpad work.
This is the the log after `startx`: http://hpaste.org/65826

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#3816 2012-03-24 11:22:28

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

It seems that support for xorg-server 1.12 will come with Catalyst 12.4:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTA3NjI

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#3817 2012-03-25 18:07:29

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

I've got a problem with the [xorg111] repository:

# pkgfile --update
:: Checking [xorg111] for files list ...
    Warning: could not retrieve file list.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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#3818 2012-03-26 20:38:33

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@C50K5Y: maybe the repository was down for a while, it works fine now.

But there is a problem, pacman -Syu gives an error message about libgl again.
:: libgl and catalyst-total are in conflict

Did something change? I fixed it last time by completely removing Xorg but it seems some packages in xorg111 depend on libgl now.

edit: for some reason I had intel-dri installed, removing it prior to running pacman -Syu fixed the problem.

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#3819 2012-03-28 16:19:26

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

snack wrote:

It seems that support for xorg-server 1.12 will come with Catalyst 12.4:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … px=MTA3NjI

Did anyone try the 12.4 beta driver http://developer.amd.com/Downloads/Open … sLinux.tgz?

(Source: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.p … post255394)

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#3820 2012-03-28 17:22:20

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

12.3 released

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … ng=English

Last edited by agapito (2012-03-28 17:24:16)


Excuse my poor English.

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#3821 2012-03-28 21:35:15

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Sorry guys, i'm afk/busy, doing some big project, i won't be able to update it atm.
I'm not sure when i will be back, maybe in friday, but most likely sunday's fool's day would be a deadline.

Heard that 12.3 is not intersting, brings better support of hd 7950 only.


Oh and as for 12.4 mentioned by snack and Inkaine - i've performed quick test of it yesterday - but it wasn't working with xserv 1.12 so i've just removed it...

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#3822 2012-03-29 13:19:52

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:

Sorry guys, i'm afk/busy, doing some big project, i won't be able to update it atm.
I'm not sure when i will be back, maybe in friday, but most likely sunday's fool's day would be a deadline.

Heard that 12.3 is not intersting, brings better support of hd 7950 only.


Oh and as for 12.4 mentioned by snack and Inkaine - i've performed quick test of it yesterday - but it wasn't working with xserv 1.12 so i've just removed it...

Did you test either of 'em with Gnome Shell? I heard 12.3 doesn't bring any improvements, but I got my hopes set on 12.4


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#3823 2012-03-29 15:33:12

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

I just noticed I am getting two error messages from Catalyst. I suppose these have to do something with my DWM issue I described here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1079536

This are the error messages:

[   119.042] (EE) fglrx(0): PPLIB: swlPPLibNotifyEventToPPLib() failed!
[   119.042] (EE) fglrx(0):        ulEventType = 00000023, ulEventData = 00000001

I found it in this part from Xorg.0.log:

[   106.628] (II) fglrx(0): Restoring Recent Mode via PCS is not supported in RANDR 1.2 capabl$
[   118.936] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[   118.937] (II) fglrx(0): Backup framebuffer data.
[   118.979] (II) fglrx(0): Backup complete.
[   119.042] (EE) fglrx(0): PPLIB: swlPPLibNotifyEventToPPLib() failed!
[   119.042] (EE) fglrx(0):        ulEventType = 00000023, ulEventData = 00000001
[   125.526] (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
[   125.611] (II) fglrx(0): User Preference Output LVDS using refresh rate 60.0 Hz.

EDIT: By the way, I'm using the [xorg111] repo and have been ever since it was created.

Last edited by Unia (2012-03-29 15:34:35)


If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres

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#3824 2012-03-29 18:27:06

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Vi0L0 wrote:

Oh and as for 12.4 mentioned by snack and Inkaine - i've performed quick test of it yesterday - but it wasn't working with xserv 1.12 so i've just removed it...

Thanks for the headsup. I had already feared that reading the posts on the phoronix forum. Let's wait and see for 12.4 final. Maybe we'll be positively surprised.

In general thanks for all your work on the catalyst packages. Take the time you need with releases. wink

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#3825 2012-03-30 00:04:58

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Re: The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

With Catalyst, I find some problem occured after suspend. Xorg have a very high CPU usage. anybody have the same problem ?

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