The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

PhotonX · 2012-04-29 17:38:35

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edit: Could it be due to the version of linux-api-headers?

2 core/linux-api-headers 3.3.2-1 [installed]
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
3 core/linux-headers 3.3.3-1 [installed]
    Header files and scripts for building modules for linux kernel

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Vi0L0 · 2012-04-29 22:08:09

PhotonX
I just wrote:
manually remove /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/ directory

and then saw your last post: lol, how is it possible to have same package but in 2 different versions? oh wait - not same package
so anyway follow my 1st advice

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PhotonX · 2012-04-30 08:13:23

Thanks for your advice, but unfortunately removing /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/ and rebooting didn't solve the problem. Maybe I need to reinstall catalyst-hook and catalyst-utils, too... I'll try it in ~10 hours when I'm back home and report back.

xorgx3 · 2012-04-30 08:26:43

For me working only downgrade catalyst-utils, after upgrade still this same troubles. I use catalyst-hook too. Any ideas?

Amarus · 2012-04-30 12:15:15

Vi0L0 wrote:

i'm also concerned about 3.4 kernel support for which there's no patch but just an ugly workaround which is also engaging a patching of kernel's headers, and there's kernel 3.4 rc4 already, guess there could be a problem with it in near future.

So I suppose that, for the time being, I should pass the offer that pacman have just made to me to update my kernel to 3.3.4 on my production machine right?

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qubital · 2012-04-30 17:11:19

Upgrading to 3.3.4-1 caused a fallback to the default radeon driver. Really surprised it didn't crash altogether. Had to downgrade.

Unia · 2012-04-30 18:03:44

qubital wrote:

Upgrading to 3.3.4-1 caused a fallback to the default radeon driver. Really surprised it didn't crash altogether. Had to downgrade.

Same here...

PhotonX · 2012-04-30 20:03:00

Removing /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/, updating to 3.3.4 and rebuilding catalyst-hook and catalyst-utils fixed the problem. Maybe something was unnecessary, but that's what I did.

Unia · 2012-05-01 09:51:58

PhotonX wrote:

Removing /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/, updating to 3.3.4 and rebuilding catalyst-hook and catalyst-utils fixed the problem. Maybe something was unnecessary, but that's what I did.

Do you mean /lib/modules/extramodules-3.3-ARCH? That's the only extramodules I have

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mpnordland · 2012-05-01 10:20:06

If you're using catalyst generator, just rebuild the module.

PhotonX · 2012-05-01 10:41:31

Unia: I had still /lib/modules/extramodules-3.2-ARCH/ (and /lib/modules/extramodules-3.3-ARCH, too) before the update to 3.4 for some reason. After removing the 3.2 directory I still have the 3.3 one left, but fglrx works again in spite of this fact.

Amarus · 2012-05-01 15:06:38

Decided to give the kernel upgrade a shot, and it worked without any hassle for me.
I use catalyst-hook and didn't have to do anything, it rebuilt the module by itself and everything is fine after a restart.

achilleas.k · 2012-05-01 22:17:02

I also use Catalyst hook without problems, but sometimes I need to rebuild it myself. Dunno why that is, but it's been doing it on and off for a while so I just rebuild anyway.

snack · 2012-05-02 18:42:22

Hi, I'm facing an innocuous but annoying problem. I once tried the open source driver and now I use fglrx. Everything works perfectly but every time I boot I get this error from udev:

udevd[162]: Error running install command for radeon

with varying number between parentheses. I think I have blacklisted the radeon module by creating /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf which contains:

install radeon /bin/false

Still I wonder why I get the udev error at boot. Maybe blacklisting is not the correct thing to do to remove the error? Sorry for the maybe-naive question but I don't know udev well.
Thanks

ps. I'm posting here because maybe some Catalyst user faced this before.

GERGE · 2012-05-02 19:08:40

I wasn't aware that you could blacklist like that. I just write blacklist radeon.

ChemBro · 2012-05-02 19:42:32

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 
blacklist radeon
blacklist radeonfb

snack · 2012-05-02 21:35:58

GERGE wrote:

I wasn't aware that you could blacklist like that. I just write blacklist radeon.

I found that method in this news post:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-t … cklisting/

Anyway, I put the lines ChemBro suggested in my /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf. Now I go to bed, tomorrow morning I will reboot and then see what happens...
Meanwhile, thanks for the suggestions!

snack · 2012-05-04 06:52:44

OK, doing like ChemBro suggested made it work, thanks. Evidently there's something wrong in the news I mentioned in my previous post...

Unia · 2012-05-04 10:44:22

Gotta say that I reinstalled Archand everything is working OOTB with Catalyst 12.4 and the latest kernel

ratcheer · 2012-05-04 11:54:42

Unia wrote:

Gotta say that I reinstalled Archand everything is working OOTB with Catalyst 12.4 and the latest kernel

Did you have to downgrade Xorg to 1.11? The Wiki still says that Catalyst will not work with 1.12.

Tim

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Unia · 2012-05-04 13:05:40

ratcheer wrote:

Unia wrote:
Gotta say that I reinstalled Archand everything is working OOTB with Catalyst 12.4 and the latest kernel
Did you have to downgrade Xorg to 1.11? The Wiki still says that Catalyst will not work with 1.12.
Tim

Oh, excuse me. I was aiming for the compatibility between Catalyst 12.4 and kernel 3.3.4. I wasn't talking about xorg versions - but to answer your questions: I am still on xorg111

ratcheer · 2012-05-04 13:49:07

Unia wrote:

ratcheer wrote:
Unia wrote:
Gotta say that I reinstalled Archand everything is working OOTB with Catalyst 12.4 and the latest kernel
Did you have to downgrade Xorg to 1.11? The Wiki still says that Catalyst will not work with 1.12.
Tim
Oh, excuse me. I was aiming for the compatibility between Catalyst 12.4 and kernel 3.3.4. I wasn't talking about xorg versions - but to answer your questions: I am still on xorg111

Ok, thank you. But you said you reinstalled Arch, so that should have given you Xorg 1.12. So, I figured you were either on 1.12 OOTB or you downgraded it.

Tim

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Unia · 2012-05-04 14:24:46

^ I did quickly try the opensource driver so initially I was on xorg112, yes. The opensource driver gave me artifacts and terrible performance though, so either it's not fully functional (what I don't expect) or I missed something (what I'd rather expect ). Hence I installed Catalyst again and downgraded to xorg111

Is there any expectation for xorg112 support? I heard it's gonna be 12.6 as earliest...

Unia · 2012-05-09 14:30:15

I would like to try GNOME Shell again - but before I install it, I'd like to know how the performance currently is with Catalyst. Is it worth testing, or is it still unstable/slow/artifacts etc?

xsmile · 2012-05-09 14:55:58

It performed quite well on my netbook with an AMD E-350 / Radeon 6320 chipset.
You will probably need to set 'export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none' in your profile for better performance though.

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