The AMD/ATI Bar & Grill

Unia · 2011-08-24 17:35:15

Vi0L0 wrote:

@Unia:
You haven't experiencing this bug before 3.0 kernel, have you?
Please write a bug report at http://ati.cchtml.com

It happened only on kernel 3.0, yes. But it only send me back to TTY once, other times my system just froze but those times I could not find an error message regarding fglrx. It send me back/hung on me when I tried to open Firefox (when I clicked its icon on awn dock) and froze when I tried to open VLC's preferences.. downgraded VLC now to find out if that helps. Are you sure I should file a bug report on that?

Vi0L0 · 2011-08-25 19:11:02

edgydalina wrote:

What about Panzerino's and my bug? Anything new/old?
My suggestion would be ... to wait ... for a new version ...

What if you will copy /etc/ati/control file from 11.7 into 11.8?

Unia wrote:

Vi0L0 wrote:
@Unia:
You haven't experiencing this bug before 3.0 kernel, have you?
Please write a bug report at http://ati.cchtml.com
It happened only on kernel 3.0, yes. But it only send me back to TTY once, other times my system just froze but those times I could not find an error message regarding fglrx. It send me back/hung on me when I tried to open Firefox (when I clicked its icon on awn dock) and froze when I tried to open VLC's preferences.. downgraded VLC now to find out if that helps. Are you sure I should file a bug report on that?

Is other acceleration working fine - like glxgears, compositing etc?
What if you will turn acceleration off in both VLC and FF - is it still crashing?

Unia · 2011-08-25 19:52:52

Vi0L0 wrote:

Is other acceleration working fine - like glxgears, compositing etc?
What if you will turn acceleration off in both VLC and FF - is it still crashing?

I'm running compiz, so compositing is definitely working. I downgraded VLC and switched to Chromium, haven't had an issue so far. Also, VLC's issue happened only when opening its preferences window :\

EDIT: downgrading VLC didn't work..

Last edited by Unia (2011-08-25 20:00:28)

CapSel · 2011-08-26 15:08:59

Hi All, this is my first post here... so...
I can't start X server with ati drivers installed (after aticonfig --initial).
My system is Dell Vostro 3350,
some output from lspci:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Seymour [AMD Radeon HD 6470M]

relevant lines from Xorg.0.log:
[ 31.339] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_xs110_atiddxPreInit] === begin
[ 31.340] (II) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Discrete GPU is selected.
[ 31.633] (II) fglrx(0): PowerXpress: Diagnostic output from /usr/lib64/fglrx/switchlibGL:
Switch to AMD

[ 31.642]
Backtrace:
[ 31.642] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x45d496]
[ 31.642] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x618b9) [0x4618b9]
[ 31.642] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fe699fe9000+0xf7c0) [0x7fe699ff87c0]
[ 31.642] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs110_atiddxPxPreInit+0x124) [0x7fe6969692e4]
[ 31.643] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs110_atiddxPreInit+0x205b) [0x7fe69693f88b]
[ 31.643] 5: /usr/bin/X (InitOutput+0x834) [0x470bf4]
[ 31.643] 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x229e3) [0x4229e3]
[ 31.643] 7: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fe698f6913d]
[ 31.643] 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x22e8d) [0x422e8d]
[ 31.643] Segmentation fault at address 0x10
[ 31.643]
Fatal server error:
[ 31.643] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[ 31.643]
[ 31.643]

As I allready found out my system has intel card connected directly (without MUX) to display output.
And here is my bug report: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226

Steps to reproduce this:
-1. install driver
0. reboot system (with or without i915.modeset=0); fglrx is loaded without errors in dmesg
1. start aticonfig --initial
2. /etc/rc.d/kdm start

edgydalina · 2011-08-26 17:13:52

Vi0l0 wrote:

What if you will copy /etc/ati/control file from 11.7 into 11.8?

Done. No difference though (that is, still freezing when doing 3D).
Thanks anyway!

Looking for a notebook right now, won't have rather depressing AMD graphics. Looking forward to THAT!
(Any tips for a modern notebook for less than 600 €?)

Last edited by edgydalina (2011-08-26 17:14:25)

snack · 2011-08-27 13:40:52

Hi guys, I'm trying to make vaapi acceleration work on my Mobility Radeon HD3470. It sports UVD+ and not UVD2 so I thought it should not work, but then I found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1518160

so I decided to give it a shot. I installed these packages:

extra/libva 1.0.14-1
catalyst/xvba-video 0.7.8-4
community/mplayer-vaapi 33161-4

I am currently on catalyst-daemon 11.8 and linux-pae i686 kernel. When I try to launch mmplayer I get a crash:

$ mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi dvd://81 -dvd-device /media/arch64/home/mori/qBT_dir/Transformers\ -\ 2/
MPlayer SVN-r33161-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
162 audio & 354 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://81.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
There are 99 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: it aid: 129.
audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 130.
number of audio channels on disk: 3.
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: it
subtitle ( sid ): 5 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 7 language: it
subtitle ( sid ): 9 language: it
number of subtitles on disk: 5

MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: preinit_libvo
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

Launching without -vo vaapi:gl works, but I don't think that acceleration is enabled that way:

$ mplayer -va vaapi dvd://81 -dvd-device /media/arch64/home/mori/qBT_dir/Transformers\ -\ 2/
MPlayer SVN-r33161-4.6.1 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
162 audio & 354 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://81.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Couldn't find device name.
There are 99 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (5.1) language: it aid: 129.
audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 130.
number of audio channels on disk: 3.
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: it
subtitle ( sid ): 5 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 7 language: it
subtitle ( sid ): 9 language: it
number of subtitles on disk: 5

MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  9800.0 kbps (1225.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
[VD_FFMPEG] VA API accelerated codec.
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 448.0 kbit/29.17% (ratio: 56000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=1.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=0.
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=2.
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
[VD_FFMPEG] Trying pixfmt=3.
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12 
[mpeg2video @ 0x89f9460]ac-tex damaged at 37 7
[mpeg2video @ 0x89f9460]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 0x89f9460]concealing 1305 DC, 1305 AC, 1305 MV errors
A:   0.6 V:   0.6 A-V: -0.013 ct: -0.018  11/ 11 ??% ??% ??,?% 4 0

Here's vainfo:

$ vainfo
libva: libva version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA API version: 0.32
vainfo: Driver version: Splitted-Desktop Systems XvBA backend for VA-API - 0.7.8
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD

Am I missing something or simply vaapi won't work my my card?

snack · 2011-08-27 14:16:08

OK, it was an incompatibility with linux-pae, with stock kernel mplayer -vo vaapi -va vaapi works (and maybe recompiling some packages would make it work also for linux-pae). Still, I cannot see any benefits from using vaapi: cpu usage is the same, maybe UVD+ hardware really doesn't work...

Panzerino · 2011-08-27 18:30:48

Go on decent video card. You will be able to obtain one- NVIDIA GT 430 or ATI 6450 for less than 60Euros.

snack · 2011-08-27 19:08:31

Panzerino wrote:

Go on decent video card. You will be able to obtain one- NVIDIA GT 430 or ATI 6450 for less than 60Euros.

I find your comment quite sloppy and out of focus. First of all, I'm trying to make my video card work and your suggestion does not help at all. Second, I don't want to buy a new VGA. Third, and most important, I said my card is a MOBILITY Radeon HD3470, which means I'm on laptop so I cannot change the VGA.

Cdh · 2011-08-28 21:58:01

Maybe this is wrong here, but I think it's still the best place to ask:
I wanted to test a bit what you can do with xen but the default fglrx module doesn't really run inside a dom0. I googled it and apparently you need some patches to the fglrx module to make it work. But the search results were pretty old. So I wondered if somebody knows about a proper source for the patch for a current fglrx and maybe we could make an AUR package. I saw there is nvidia-xen in the AUR but not fglrx for xen.

sheynfinkel · 2011-08-29 09:06:51

I'm getting a black screen after installing catalyst. There's no way to get back to the console either. I installed it the regular way, via the catalyst & catalyst-utils package in the AUR. I had to force the uninstallation of libgl using pacman -Rdd. After it was installed, I ran aticonfig. The Catalyst wiki pages seems to have removed quite a bit of information, although I suppose I could look at the look at the history. Still, the final outcome is a blank screen.
Any suggestions? Also, what's the recommended way of installing catalyst on Arch?

nitram · 2011-08-29 09:45:37

edgydalina wrote:

Here I am, having the same problem as Panzerino. (Still catalyst-total, I'll try normal catalyst later ...)
...
I'm back on 11.7 but I'll 'tail -f' this thread for this problem.

I'm having the same problem on 11.8 with a Radeon HD6970M. It freezes up whenever i try to do anything 3d related, i reverted back to 11.7 and the problems are gone for now..

Panzerino · 2011-08-29 19:14:26

nitram wrote:

edgydalina wrote:
Here I am, having the same problem as Panzerino. (Still catalyst-total, I'll try normal catalyst later ...)
...
I'm back on 11.7 but I'll 'tail -f' this thread for this problem.
I'm having the same problem on 11.8 with a Radeon HD6970M. It freezes up whenever i try to do anything 3d related, i reverted back to 11.7 and the problems are gone for now..

You have the mouse bug in 11.7?

edgydalina · 2011-08-29 20:01:20

Even if I'm not meant, Yes, of course I have, everybody (actually not) has! And I'm proud of it!

nitram · 2011-08-31 07:01:46

Hmm, i don't know really. What's the mouse bug in 11.7 ?:)

edgydalina · 2011-08-31 10:49:36

When I put my mouse cursor in the bottom right corner of the screen and want to move it out of a certain zone (in the corner) the screen freezes for a second or so ... hard to describe though. Well, at least it's annoying.

nitram · 2011-08-31 13:48:09

edgydalina wrote:

When I put my mouse cursor in the bottom right corner of the screen and want to move it out of a certain zone (in the corner) the screen freezes for a second or so ... hard to describe though. Well, at least it's annoying.

Hmm don't know if i have that one, will try it when i get home

engywook · 2011-08-31 14:21:49

Any of you managed to get 720p or 1080p playing in any video player without tearing? If so, how?

EDIT: HW is an i5 with 12GB RAM and a HD5850.

Last edited by engywook (2011-08-31 14:51:23)

snack · 2011-08-31 14:31:41

engywook wrote:

Any of you managed to get 720p or 1080p playing in any video player without tearing? If so, how?

I think enabling tear free desktop fro catalyst control center should do the job. Be aware that you may experience some performance penalty, try to disable desktop effects in that case.

engywook · 2011-08-31 14:46:00

snack wrote:

I think enabling tear free desktop fro catalyst control center should do the job. Be aware that you may experience some performance penalty, try to disable desktop effects in that case.

Yea, tried that. The performance hit was too great. I'm running a tiling WM so not many effects to disable unfortunately.

snack · 2011-08-31 14:47:43

engywook wrote:

snack wrote:
I think enabling tear free desktop fro catalyst control center should do the job. Be aware that you may experience some performance penalty, try to disable desktop effects in that case.
Yea, tried that. The performance hit was too great. I'm running a tiling WM so not many effects to disable unfortunately.

Then I'm sorry, I don't know any player that can give good performances with tear free enabled, at least for me. That's why I don't use tear free desktop.

edgydalina · 2011-08-31 17:28:49

i3, 4GB, HD6450: tear free too slow, too ... also tiling ...

securitybreach · 2011-08-31 17:51:00

OK, I have read through this thread, the various wikis and a ton of forum posts/blogs, etc and I still cannot find a definite answer as to if the Radeon HD 6x (Northern Islands/n900) series of cards will work on Linux. I know previously that the Catalyst driver did not support this series but have read contradicting posts saying that is does now. I just ordered a HIS H679F1GD Radeon HD 6790 Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5 with an Active DisplayPort to dvi-d connector for my 3rd monitor and need to know if this will function correctly under Archlinux?

Sorry if this has been answered before as I searched and did not find anything.

Thanks in advance :-)

BTW I am running Archlinux x86_64

Last edited by securitybreach (2011-08-31 18:23:34)

LK- · 2011-09-01 04:29:36

hm, using catalyst from AUR, I get keyboard/mouse lag sometimes? Any ideas?
GFX card is ATI 6970.
Thanks.

nitram · 2011-09-01 07:33:38

edgydalina wrote:

When I put my mouse cursor in the bottom right corner of the screen and want to move it out of a certain zone (in the corner) the screen freezes for a second or so ... hard to describe though. Well, at least it's annoying.

I tried it but didn't notice this bug.. What i do have is a certain stutter/hangup for a couple of msec in mplayer2 but i don't know if this is related to catalyst. I do have tear-free desktop enabled btw.

Arch Linux

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