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wombat23

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Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 46

[SOLVED] ATI catalyst problems

I just did a pacman -Syu and ran into problems with my ATI radeon hd 7870 card.

After reboot, I noticed that my GPU fan speed was too loud because this command does not work anymore:

aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 25"
PPLIB command execution has failed!
ati_pplib_cmd: execute "set" failed!

Other commands fail too:

aticonfig --od-gettemperature
ERROR - Get temperature failed for the Default Adapter - AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Also, when I move windows around in Gnome (fallback mode), or when I scroll in gedit, the movement is not smooth, you can see how they redraw at their new position slowly.

I am not experienced with catalyst troubleshooting. Is there any guidance on how to find out what's wrong?

PS:
I just found this in the Xorg log file:

[     2.672] (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed. Probably kernel module missing or incompatible. 
[     2.672] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
[     2.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed                               *
[     2.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompatible *
[     2.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D and 3D acceleration disabled                         *
[     2.672] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************

Thanks in advance

Last edited by wombat23 (2013-01-22 11:35:14)

foutrelis

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Registered: 2008-07-28

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Re: [SOLVED] ATI catalyst problems

Assuming you're using catalyst-dkms from [community], you will need to enable the dkms service in order for the fglrx module to be rebuilt for Linux 3.7.

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … figuration

wombat23

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Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] ATI catalyst problems

Assuming you're using catalyst-dkms from [community], you will need to enable the dkms service in order for the fglrx module to be rebuilt for Linux 3.7.

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … figuration

Yes, I use calalyst-dkms.

I enabled dkms.service and rebooted, but the problem persists:

dkms.service - Dynamic Kernel Modules System
	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dkms.service; enabled)
	  Active: active (exited) since Die 2013-01-22 12:20:00 CET; 2min 10s ago
	 Process: 261 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/dkms start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: DKMS: build completed.
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: fglrx.ko:
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: Running module version sanity check.
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: - Original module
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: - No original module exists within thi...el
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: - Installation
Jan 22 12:19:57 lacandona dkms[261]: - Installing to /usr/lib/modules/3.7.3...s/
Jan 22 12:20:00 lacandona dkms[261]: depmod....
Jan 22 12:20:00 lacandona dkms[261]: DKMS: install completed.
Jan 22 12:20:00 lacandona systemd[1]: Started Dynamic Kernel Modules System.

wombat23

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Registered: 2011-01-14

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] ATI catalyst problems

OK .. I had to reboot twice. Once for the dkms.service to do its thing and then another time so catalyst finds the new file.

Thanks alot for your help!