The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Southie75 · 2009-07-26 06:14:01

Yes libgl conflicts with catalyst. Remove it with 'pacman -Rd libgl' and then (re)install catalyst. And yes it conflicts with other drivers, remove them also. Plus, you need to check your bios to verify which card is enabled.

Last edited by Southie75 (2009-07-26 06:14:30)

takedown · 2009-07-26 06:30:59

ok ok, I'm in problems.
At this moment in my bios i only enable my ati card, i don' t know why but but but...

But I need some time to determine which video card should I use

kensai · 2009-07-26 15:49:03

I am very busy today, but I will work on improving the 9.7 catalyst patches and PKGBUILD and see if this finally fixes the i686 problems.

hunterthomson · 2009-07-27 02:53:44

takedown wrote:

ok ok, I'm in problems.
At this moment in my bios i only enable my ati card, i don' t know why but but but...
But I need some time to determine which video card should I use

Thats up to you. If you want to make use of the ATI card which will no doubt provide way better 3D then use the Catalyst with that card. If you don't what to install the Catalyst and patched Xserver Just Because, or you can't get the Catalyst to work for some reason then use the Intel card.

The Intel card is better then the ATI card with the Open Drivers. But the ATI card with the Catalyst will be better then the Intel card.

Last edited by hunterthomson (2009-07-27 04:50:22)

godane · 2009-07-27 12:31:21

@kensai
I have the new catalyst 9.7 driver working now. You still need the patch kernel from 9.6.

You can get my catalyst 9.7 PKGBUILD here.

You can also add this to your /etc/pacman.conf file before core repo:

[archiso-live]
Server = http://arch-live.isawsome.net/packages/

I hope this helps everyone.

venky80 · 2009-07-27 15:22:52

@godane does it work for i686 without freezing or kernel panic?
Thanks

Vi0L0 · 2009-07-27 20:26:01

stray wrote:

I just unpacked all debs in the same folder, made a package of it, installed, and "manually" created the module form /usr/src/fglrx-8.350/.

question 1: can you please put on the net that package you had made?
I had tried to build that package but without any good effect , after i installed it and created fglrx.ko module (via make.sh, and just cp it to /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/video) my Xorg is starting kdm, but it cant run kde cuz of some drm errors.
question 2: are you using patched xorg server? i thought maybe this is linked with my drm error... dunno, just guessing
Thanks

Thanks to kensai and others for great job.
Greetz

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2009-07-27 20:43:42)

godane · 2009-07-27 21:08:16

@venky80
I only use arch i686. So yes. From my test it work fine with catalyst being build for my patch kernel.

EDIT: I notice i don't put out that there is not freezing in the first post. I forgot to say that since i post that on aur catalyst comments.

I have tested glxgears and glxinfo and the system doesn't freeze at all from my tests.

I hope this helps.

Last edited by godane (2009-07-27 21:12:42)

kensai · 2009-07-27 23:44:55

If anyone can make a PKGBUILD for the leaked driver it would be greatly appreciated. 9.7 is not working very good for me.

venky80 · 2009-07-28 01:42:27

@godane can you also provide the xorg-server-maximize fix in your repo? I think the catalyst 9.7 is useless without it.
Thanks I can finally have 3d in my laptop Thanks

cinan · 2009-07-28 09:59:05

venky80 wrote:

@godane can you also provide the xorg-server-maximize fix in your repo? I think the catalyst 9.7 is useless without it.

that would be awesome. So, godane, do it!

Valliko · 2009-07-28 11:48:05

Hey fellahs, thought i'd join in on hating ATI with you!

I'm on xf86-video-ati at the moment, everything works properly but i can't play Warsow / Quake 3 so...
Been trying to solve this for several hours.. i really appreciate you guys trying to figure out this!
I tried using various rebuilds and patches from the AUR, kensai etc.. they all give me errors when i modprob fglrx, such as allocating memory goes wrong.

Very tired, but hope you understand me

handy · 2009-07-28 14:46:29

Valliko wrote:

Hey fellahs, thought i'd join in on hating ATI with you!
I'm on xf86-video-ati at the moment, everything works properly but i can't play Warsow / Quake 3 so...
Been trying to solve this for several hours.. i really appreciate you guys trying to figure out this!
I tried using various rebuilds and patches from the AUR, kensai etc.. they all give me errors when i modprob fglrx, such as allocating memory goes wrong.
Very tired, but hope you understand me

I'm using the same open driver as you, it works fantastically well for me in 2D, video playback & such, but 3D is not there yet.

Wintervenom, mentioned further back in this thread that 3D may be here for this driver in kernel *.32, which shouldn't be all that far off, which is nice.

Whether it will be enough 3D to play your games I don't know.

Last edited by handy (2009-07-28 14:49:04)

venky80 · 2009-07-28 17:26:13

I am using godane's catalyst with his patched kernel along with xorg-server-maximize-fix from AUR and it feels good to have 3D back but suspend to RAM doesnt work but the with ATI/AMD something is bound to suck

stray · 2009-07-28 18:55:07

I tried making a more proper pkgbuild

_kernver=2.6.30-ARCH

pkgname=catalyst-leaked
pkgver=8.650
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="AMD/ATI kernel drivers for Radeon brand cards. Stock kernel"
arch=('x86_64')
url="http://www.ati.amd.com"
license=('custom')
depends=("kernel26>=2.6.30" "kernel26<2.6.31")
replaces=('ati-fglrx' 'fglrx' 'catalyst' 'catalyst-utils') # Yay rebranding
conflicts=('catalyst-leaked' 'libgl' 'ati-drivers-module' 'ati-drivers' 'nvidia' 'catalyst-utils')
provides=('catalyst-utils' 'catalyst-leaked' 'libgl')
install=catalyst-leaked.install
source=(fglrx-amdcccle_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-kernel-source_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-modaliases_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb libamdxvba1_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb xorg-driver-fglrx_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb )
md5sums=('e9aa8512e322ded77b390cedf6a296ef'
'c3e775c202721e5bf85ff77438a2d167'
'76a4f6363774da4dafcbb4149cfee4c4'
'e45df97bb48821b7b9bdb0628995bde1' 
'7e9b020114f5867178cfd255ff2a1a34'
'b1277385962fd1d2690572dfce1a43bc' 
)


build() {
#unpack debs
ar p fglrx-amdcccle_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
ar p fglrx-kernel-source_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
ar p fglrx-modaliases_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
ar p libamdxvba1_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
ar p xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx
ar p xorg-driver-fglrx_${pkgver}-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx

#create module, copy, delete src
cd usr/src/fglrx-${pkgver}/
./make.sh
mkdir -p ${srcdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}/misc
cp ${srcdir}/usr/src/fglrx-${pkgver}/fglrx.ko ${srcdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}/misc
rm -R ${srcdir}/usr/src

#copy package contents
cp -R ${srcdir}/usr ${srcdir}/lib ${srcdir}/etc ${pkgdir}
}

catalyst-leaked.install

KERNEL_VERSION=2.6.30-ARCH

post_install() {
  depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
}

post_upgrade() {
  depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
}

post_remove() {
  depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
}

I only tried making the package, the result seems to be fine.
I'm not sure if the way i handle making the kernel module is okay.
The license file is missing, i'll check if it's in the .debs
My first pkgbuild conflicted with libdri.so. I dont know how to check which package this file originally belonged to. I just renamed it

Last edited by stray (2009-07-28 20:05:51)

godane · 2009-07-28 23:38:36

Added xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix to my repo.

I hope that helps.

Vi0L0 · 2009-07-28 23:42:58

wooohooo!
thanks stray

it works really pretty well!

i am testing it (on 4850) for maybe 10 minutes but here's what i see (using kde4.2.4 desktop effects on):
* a little bit of better performence - works
* xv video playback - works
* no funny fglrx bugs in dmesg - works
* no more my 32bit flash crushes my kde is some hq video playback cases - works [im using 32bit flash cuz 64bit flash got soo weak performance to me]
* games works like always
* and its all on xorg-server patches

Thanks man
Best wishes

Last edited by Vi0L0 (2009-07-28 23:44:02)

venky80 · 2009-07-29 00:10:34

godane wrote:

Added xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix to my repo.
I hope that helps.

thanks!

kensai · 2009-07-29 00:12:18

Nice, the leaked driver is working very, very well, it has fixed a lot of problems for me and have made my performance better, in FPS. Thanks a lot stray, since I didn't have the time to put this together. Checking your PKGBUILD all seems fine to me, but well, I'm not the best when it comes to reviewing PKGBUILDs. How good is to have a nice clean dmesg output again, I don't see that since kernel 2.6.29 was released. stray if you need to update your PKGBUILD you can post here again, or even you can add it to the AUR. People who want to use it from AUR should first work a way to find the leaked driver.

Last edited by kensai (2009-07-29 00:14:33)

venky80 · 2009-07-29 00:12:50

Vi0L0 wrote:

wooohooo!
thanks stray
it works really pretty well!
i am testing it (on 4850) for maybe 10 minutes but here's what i see (using kde4.2.4 desktop effects on):
* a little bit of better performence - works
* xv video playback - works
* no funny fglrx bugs in dmesg - works
* no more my 32bit flash crushes my kde is some hq video playback cases - works [im using 32bit flash cuz 64bit flash got soo weak performance to me]
* games works like always
* and its all on xorg-server patches
Thanks man
Best wishes

does it work for i686 also where is the file to download?

kensai · 2009-07-29 00:15:31

venky80 wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:
wooohooo!
thanks stray
it works really pretty well!
i am testing it (on 4850) for maybe 10 minutes but here's what i see (using kde4.2.4 desktop effects on):
* a little bit of better performence - works
* xv video playback - works
* no funny fglrx bugs in dmesg - works
* no more my 32bit flash crushes my kde is some hq video playback cases - works [im using 32bit flash cuz 64bit flash got soo weak performance to me]
* games works like always
* and its all on xorg-server patches
Thanks man
Best wishes
does it work for i686 also where is the file to download?

Nope, it doesn't it is only for x86_64.

And OMG, is it working good? read my post below yours. It is a great driver at last.

Valliko · 2009-07-29 00:59:42

Wow seems like a breakthrough.. Is there any chance we'll see a i686 build?

Valliko

venky80 · 2009-07-29 00:59:49

kensai wrote:

venky80 wrote:
Vi0L0 wrote:
wooohooo!
thanks stray
it works really pretty well!
i am testing it (on 4850) for maybe 10 minutes but here's what i see (using kde4.2.4 desktop effects on):
* a little bit of better performence - works
* xv video playback - works
* no funny fglrx bugs in dmesg - works
* no more my 32bit flash crushes my kde is some hq video playback cases - works [im using 32bit flash cuz 64bit flash got soo weak performance to me]
* games works like always
* and its all on xorg-server patches
Thanks man
Best wishes
does it work for i686 also where is the file to download?
Nope, it doesn't it is only for x86_64.
And OMG, is it working good? read my post below yours. It is a great driver at last.

great atleast we can expect the next release to be good...so where can i find the leaked driver
oh i found it it is in the same forum where it was leaked initially

Last edited by venky80 (2009-07-29 01:48:57)

hpestilence · 2009-07-29 02:13:25

I'm thinking that the final version of this beta driver is 2 - 3 months away. With this beta driver I finally feel that my ATI HD4850 is better than my nvidia 6600gt (on linux) now. Just a few stability issues to iron out like sometimes the fglrx driver still hangs X but it only occurs while playing games with wine and the driver crashes.

Valliko · 2009-07-29 02:50:32

I see.. the leaked driver is x86_64 only?
Guess i'll have to wait, i hope AMD fix this shit soon...

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