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fmma

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From: London

Registered: 2008-07-25

Posts: 25

ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

Hi,

wondering if anyone has inbstalled the catalyst 9.1, which is in extra now. Wondering if thjis solved the "blackscreen" problem.

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marcinkr

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Registered: 2008-12-27

Posts: 3

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

I have X1600Pro AGP, catalyst 9.1 and:
I had "blackscreens" when I put "TexturedVideoSync" "on" in xorg.conf
Also when I had "@kdm hal (...)" in rc.conf I had randomly  blacksceens, change it to "hal @kdm (...)" solve problem for me.
My xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "AIGLX" "On"
EndSection

Section "Files"

    #RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    #Load  "record"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "freetype"
    #Load  "drm"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option        "UseFastTLS" "2"
    Option        "TexturedVideo" "On"
    Option        "VideoOverlay" "on"
    Option        "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "On"
EndSection

With this everything works fine.

PS. sorry for my "english"

elmer_42

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From: /na/usa/ca

Registered: 2008-10-11

Posts: 427

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

If you look in the AMD/ATI thread, you'll see that a few people had problems with 9.1. Your mileage may vary, but I would recommend not upgrading.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

@above: Upgrade, just don't 'pacman -Sc', so you can go back if necessary...

Daniel_B

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Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 2

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

I'm wondering why there's no x64_86 package of catalyst 9.1?

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

Because if you notice 32bit packages get out sooner as more people use it and more devs are allocated to maintain packages I guess, x86_64 is less used I believe so less devs are allocated (sounds logic). Just give it some time.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

Because if you notice 32bit packages get out sooner as more people use it and more devs are allocated to maintain packages I guess, x86_64 is less used I believe so less devs are allocated (sounds logic). Just give it some time.

And because devs running 64-bit can compile both 64 and 32-bit, but 32-bit devs can't (easily) compile for 64-bit.

aaaantoine

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Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 44

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

I'm wondering why there's no x64_86 package of catalyst 9.1?

See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 18#p491818

In summary, AndyRTR reports that "9-1 is broken on x86_64", but Mikko777 found a workaround.

I'm not using it myself yet - waiting anxiously for an official release.

pjjanak

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 128

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

It more or less worked fine for my on x86_64. I just had to copy one file to another location and it was easy street. You can easily update the PKGBUILD and update that way.

Peter

aaaantoine

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Registered: 2008-12-12

Posts: 44

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

Hm.  You mean get a hold of the i686 PKGBUILD and tweak that for x86_64?

...How would I do this from an x86_64 platform?

Last edited by aaaantoine (2009-02-05 20:51:39)

pjjanak

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 128

Re: ATI catalyst 9.1 is out. anyone installed

I just took the x86_64 PKGBUILD for 8.12 and changed the version number to 9.1. I updated the md5sums, and viola!

Peter