AMD/ATI's Radeon drivers rebranded: fglrx -> catalyst

Cerebral · 2007-11-22 04:29:50

Hi everybody.

AMD have rebranded, and reversioned, their Radeon drivers. Their previous version, the October release, was fglrx-8.42.3. November's release has been renamed, and reversioned, to catalyst-7.11.

Be advised when you upgrade that catalyst will replace fglrx, and the version will be 7.11, which may surprise you since it's a smaller number than the 8.xx.xx we've all gotten used to. Answer "yes" to allow this replacement if you want the newest offering from AMD.

Note that the kernel module and Xorg driver are both still called 'fglrx'.

Packages will be available in the repos shortly.

Thanks!

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-11-22 04:30:09)

smurnjiff · 2007-11-22 04:32:42

AMD have rebranded, and reversioned, their Radeon drivers. Their previous version, the October release, was fglrx-8.42.3. November's release has been renamed, and reversioned, to catalyst-7.11.

Just in case you don't know, 7.11 means Nov. 2007 ([year].[month]).

zoryfl · 2007-11-22 11:34:31

Did this rebranding bring any changes except a different name? Because the Release notes didn't show anything important to me. But maybe I missed something..

Cerebral · 2007-11-22 12:27:35

From what I can see:
* amdcccle now works with an xcb-enabled libx11
* compiles with kernel2.6.23 out of the box - no more user-created patch necessary

Problems still existing:
* AIGLX sucks, if it even works at all
* Dual-Head mode is still completely borked
* OpenGL Memory leak still present
* Under-mouse and bottom-right-corner graphical corruption is still present, as verified by others.

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-11-22 14:50:58)

Fatsobob · 2007-11-22 14:22:41

I had the graphics problem as well, hopefully the upgrade will fix it.

raul_nds · 2007-11-25 06:30:31

No xorg 1.4 support for me

Cerebral · 2007-11-25 23:39:22

raul_nds wrote:

No xorg 1.4 support for me

What do you mean? Are you getting some kind of error?

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-11-25 23:53:30)

stylopath · 2007-11-26 09:07:26

Will Catalyst hit the x86_64 repos?

havok · 2007-12-07 19:31:54

since yesterdays kernel update, i just get a black screen when kdm starts..

VincentV · 2007-12-11 18:59:02

hi havok,
I did a pacman -Syu a couple days ago, but ignored catalyst since I didn't want to experiment yet. I dunno what happened, but shortly thereafter my screen went black! The last couple days I've been wrasslin', thinking my graphics card died, eventually got the integrated chip working OK. Arch has been so good to me the last 2-3 years it didn't even occur to me I might have done a messy upgrade, doh!

Since this is my work machine who knows when someone will kindly buy me a new graphics card (:rolleyes:), so figured what the heck & caved in and tried the new catalyst drivers, with qualms since the version numbers for catalyst & catalyst-utils don't match; I've had headaches in the past with fglrx that way. Anyway, bam, seems to be working now! I guess maybe the kernel update didn't get along with my fglrx? I dunno, just thought I'd pass that along for info. I'm still worrying my gfx card will die though, it's an ATI 9550 by the way. OK good, my little graphics projects all seem to be working too.

Let's see, other useful info:
uname -a
Linux perelandra 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 26 21:15:02 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

pacman -Q catalyst
catalyst 7.11-2

pacman -Q catalyst-utils
catalyst-utils 7.11-1

Hope some of this helps you out!

JaDa · 2007-12-20 23:48:45

why it doesn't work?
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux … -inst.html

I was alwaus building my own packages fglrx-xxx.rpm over all this time.

But I never have had luck to build one packages for Archlinux.

Today the new ATI driver released ATI Catalyst™ 7.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver. For my openSUSE box I get it in few minutes and I have my fglrx driver.

@Cerebral

Maybe you can explain it quick and simple for me, how to build a ATI Catalyst package for Archlinux. What is the differant between Arch & SuSE?

Thank's
JaDa

Ps. merry christmas and happy new year!

Cerebral · 2007-12-21 00:51:03

JaDa - you mean what's the difference building a package using the installer directly? Well, SuSE and Arch use completely different package formats. The official AMD/ATI installer does not support Archlinux, so you simply can't use it directly to build a package.

If you want to build an Arch package, you have to use ABS to get the current PKGBUILD for catalyst-utils and catalyst, then rebuild them with the new version

JaDa · 2007-12-21 01:58:52

Cerebral wrote:

If you want to build an Arch package, you have to use ABS to get the current PKGBUILD for catalyst-utils and catalyst, then rebuild them with the new version

OK, I will try this out. I follow just the Wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

Thx.
JaDa

Arch Linux

#1 2007-11-22 04:29:50

AMD/ATI's Radeon drivers rebranded: fglrx -> catalyst

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