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miausX

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From: Spain

Registered: 2006-06-02

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ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Hi all!

There is a new version of the ATI fglrx driver available, 8.26.18.

Maybe this time 3D acceleration will work with the Xpress 200M based graphics card (version 8.24 worked, but version 8.25 works only commenting Load dri in /etc/X11/xorg.conf).

Anybody has tried the new driver?

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miausX

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From: Spain

Registered: 2006-06-02

Posts: 17

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

No luck 

From http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … =501&num=1

One of the very heated issues that was introduced into the fglrx 8.25.18 display drivers was the broken support for the Radeon R200 family. Though a workaround is available, many in the community have been frustrated by this problem. Well, the R200 OpenGL API entry-point issue still has not been resolved in the 8.26.18 release. ATI Technologies is continuing to investigate the issue; however, there is no word yet when they anticipate a fix. ATI will address the issue with a knowledge base article. Another feature that has yet to appear is TV-out support for the Radeon X1000 products. Originally the TV-out X1k support was supposed to come last month. When the TV-out support comes (hopefully next month) for the Radeon X1000 series X.Org v6.9 or newer will be required.

Maybe in the next version (this is frustating!)

Thanks to iphitus to include the new driver in the Arch repos so fast!

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=174397#174397

miausX

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From: Spain

Registered: 2006-06-02

Posts: 17

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Still no luck, but thank you :-)

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Great drivers ATI, now my 2nd head is forced to 60Hz, startup of X hangs for 10 seconds and both of my screens initialize with a nice degauss... good job. Another package that goes in ignorePkg (if it was opensource I would have looked for a fix, but this time...)

maxwevers

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Registered: 2006-06-30

Posts: 29

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I loose OpenGL Acceleration with the new 8.26 package:

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.2)

going back to the 8.25 package brings back acceleration

display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1600 Series Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5814 (8.25.18)

Any ideas how to fix this?

cougar

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From: France

Registered: 2006-06-24

Posts: 93

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I've got the same problem:

Here is the error message:

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: __glXLastContext
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so

mouse256

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From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I have the same problem here, but I didn't notice any error message in my logfile, maybe I looked over it.
I downgraded back to the old version...

maxwevers

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Registered: 2006-06-30

Posts: 29

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Didn't see a msg in the logs either.

I reportet it as a bug

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4919

miausX

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From: Spain

Registered: 2006-06-02

Posts: 17

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Hmmm... Are you loading GLcore in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

According to this, you can try commenting Load "GLcore".

> % nm libGLcore.so | grep __glXLastContext
>          U __glXLastContext

Yeah: don't load libGLcore explicitly in xorg.conf.

Information found in the following link:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x … 13672.html

Good luck! :-)

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cougar

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From: France

Registered: 2006-06-24

Posts: 93

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Thanks for the tips miausX

maxwevers

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Registered: 2006-06-30

Posts: 29

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I don't load GLcore in xorg.conf. Maybe thats the reason why I don't get any error message.

Non the less I don't get OpenGL Acceleration working

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

Here neither... no ATI OpenGL Accelaration  :?

bunnyhugh

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 21

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I had the same problem, what i noticed is that I lost 3d acceleration when the   ati-fglrx-utils went from 8.26.18-1 to 8.26.18-2 when I synced today. So I down graded just the utils back to 8.26.18-1 and everything works again.

So I am running 8.26.18-2 modules but 8.26.18-1 utils

Hope this helps

Chman

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Registered: 2006-01-31

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Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I had the same problem, what i noticed is that I lost 3d acceleration when the   ati-fglrx-utils went from 8.26.18-1 to 8.26.18-2 when I synced today. So I down graded just the utils back to 8.26.18-1 and everything works again.

So I am running 8.26.18-2 modules but 8.26.18-1 utils

Hope this helps

Same here, worked fine before today's update.

kapelrud

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From: Trondheim, Norway

Registered: 2004-11-19

Posts: 6

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Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

I had the same problem, what i noticed is that I lost 3d acceleration when the   ati-fglrx-utils went from 8.26.18-1 to 8.26.18-2 when I synced today. So I down graded just the utils back to 8.26.18-1 and everything works again.

So I am running 8.26.18-2 modules but 8.26.18-1 utils

Hope this helps

Same here, worked fine before today's update.

An easy fix to get direct rendering to work without downgrading:
in /usr/lib/ the softlink libGL.so.1 might point to a file libGL.so.1.2.R200. Delete the link and create a new one that points to the "correct file" libGL.so.1.2 like so:

# su
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
# ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

hope this works for out for you.

maxwevers

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Registered: 2006-06-30

Posts: 29

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

An easy fix to get direct rendering to work without downgrading:
in /usr/lib/ the softlink libGL.so.1 might point to a file libGL.so.1.2.R200. Delete the link and create a new one that points to the "correct file" libGL.so.1.2 like so:

# su
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
# ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

hope this works for out for you.

That's it! I was to blind to see the wrong symlink 

Thanks!

bunnyhugh

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 21

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

An easy fix to get direct rendering to work without downgrading:
in /usr/lib/ the softlink libGL.so.1 might point to a file libGL.so.1.2.R200. Delete the link and create a new one that points to the "correct file" libGL.so.1.2 like so:

# su
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
# ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

hope this works for out for you.

Yep, this worked here also. Good spot, thanks

maxwevers

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Registered: 2006-06-30

Posts: 29

Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

One thing though ... running pacman seems to relink to the r200 ...

kastor

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From: Mendoza - Argentina

Registered: 2006-06-18

Posts: 59

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Re: ATI fglrx driver: New version available

An easy fix to get direct rendering to work without downgrading:
in /usr/lib/ the softlink libGL.so.1 might point to a file libGL.so.1.2.R200. Delete the link and create a new one that points to the "correct file" libGL.so.1.2 like so:

# su
# rm /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
# ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

hope this works for out for you.

Thanx.. this work for me too.