fgrlx problems

VincentV · 2006-12-20 17:38:03

hey,
Yah, thanks cerebral, I actually noticed others were having troubles too, not just Arch, yesterday & forgot to mention it, sorry. The older driver works just fine for me so I'm happy to wait & see what happens. Good luck with this thing, I'll do more googling when I get time too.

adrianc · 2006-12-24 07:10:00

yes, it turns out that it wasnt a mistake i made, theres problems with the new drivers. I went back to using the ones i downloaded from
http://www.archlinux.org/~travis/

graphic23 · 2006-12-26 20:06:31

Yeah, I got everything working for the vanilla kernel with the drivers in this thread. Is it possible for you to build the drivers for -suspend2 because the ati-fglrx-suspend2 don't work... i *could* recompile the 2.6.19-ARCH by adding the suspend2 patches .. but i'm so lazy.. is there any way for you to give the packages? thanks!

Cerebral · 2006-12-29 06:02:54

I was the one who built ati-fglrx-suspend2. Or, at least, I was the one who built them when ATI updated to 8.32.5. If the ones in the repo don't work, I don't know why - I built them the exact same way as I built the stuff on my webspace.

graphic23 · 2006-12-29 06:21:49

Cerebral wrote:

I was the one who built ati-fglrx-suspend2. Or, at least, I was the one who built them when ATI updated to 8.32.5. If the ones in the repo don't work, I don't know why - I built them the exact same way as I built the stuff on my webspace.

Really ? That blows. The one on your webspace works with the vanilla kernel but the suspend2 one doesn't work at all. It doesn't load because of version mismatch or something...

Cerebral · 2006-12-29 16:25:51

ohhh, that's 'cause the one on my webspace is a different version from the one on the repos. Your ati-fglrx-utils package needs to be the same version as all your ati-fglrx-* packages, and the stuff on my webspace I only uploaded because I was testing something out - I incorporated that option into the packages I now build for the repos.

In theory, if the packages in my webspace (8.31.5) work, the packages in the repos (8.32.5) _should_ all work too, but for some reason, for some people that isn't the case, and I don't understand why.

Have you tried using all the packages from the repos?

graphic23 · 2006-12-29 17:13:51

Cerebral wrote:

ohhh, that's 'cause the one on my webspace is a different version from the one on the repos. Your ati-fglrx-utils package needs to be the same version as all your ati-fglrx-* packages, and the stuff on my webspace I only uploaded because I was testing something out - I incorporated that option into the packages I now build for the repos.
In theory, if the packages in my webspace (8.31.5) work, the packages in the repos (8.32.5) _should_ all work too, but for some reason, for some people that isn't the case, and I don't understand why.
Have you tried using all the packages from the repos?

Um, do you mean like all the ati-fglrx-* packages along with ati-fglrx-utils one ? I just the ati-fglrx-suspend2 and ati-fglrx-utils and they were of the same version, IIRC. I'll try again soon and let you know.

Cerebral · 2006-12-29 20:00:27

Yes, the version of ati-fglrx-suspend2 must be the same as ati-fglrx-utils.

graphic23 · 2006-12-29 22:28:13

Cerebral wrote:

Yes, the version of ati-fglrx-suspend2 must be the same as ati-fglrx-utils.

They are. Except the driver doesn't work properly. I get lines at the top of the screen and its slow and when i run glxgears, i just see a black dialog. However, when I install the 8.31.5 for ati-fglrx and NOT ati-fglrx-suspend2 (meaning the ones on your website), it works great with the vanilla kernel. Is there a way to get ati-fglrx-suspend2 for 8.31.5 ?

OssiR · 2006-12-30 04:31:30

Hi!

I'm having a performance problem with my Sapphire R9600 PRO.
I followed "ATI Radeon & Kernel 2.6" guide to install the drivers. Even the image came up after the installation.
BUT! Example every GL screensavers runs way too slow, something like 2FPS.

glxinfo says > direct rendering : YES

i have added next line to my xorg.conf to get rid of the AIGLX error

Option   "AIGLX" "off"

Links to my configs and logs
xorg.conf
xorg log

Output from LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
libgl_debug

Any ideas, what i should try next?

Cerebral · 2007-01-01 20:17:09

graphic23 wrote:

Is there a way to get ati-fglrx-suspend2 for 8.31.5 ?

You can rebuild packages for older versions of an app by running 'abs' as root then making the necessary changes (pkgver primarily) to the PKGBUILD located in /var/abs/extra/modules/ati-fglrx-suspend2, then running makepkg.

OssiR wrote:

Example every GL screensavers runs way too slow, something like 2FPS.

Are you using gnome-screensaver? This is a known issue that isn't distro-specific, and I haven't found a solution for that yet.

OssiR · 2007-01-01 23:03:55

Cerebral wrote:

Are you using gnome-screensaver?

Yep, gnome-screensaver, but also glxgears gives pretty low FPS, around 100-200 per second. I'm pretty sure that 9600PRO should give much more than that.

Cerebral · 2007-01-02 19:36:17

OssiR wrote:

glxgears gives pretty low FPS, around 100-200 per second. I'm pretty sure that 9600PRO should give much more than that.

glxgears is not a benchmark. The numbers it gives are essentially useless in determining how fast your card will render.

The gnome-screensaver issue is known - there's a bug filed in our bugtracker, and people from other distros are also having the problem. Try xscreensaver - it tends to work better.

graphic23 · 2007-01-07 07:27:40

So anyways, I got the ati-fglrx-suspend2 working by using abs to install the 8.31.5 driver instead of the latest one. I'm happy to say that it works. Thanks a lot for your help Cerebral!

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