Howto for fglrx / catalyst (Ati driver)

[andysatriani]

hi, i have a hd4290 onboard card, i installed akmod 12.10 on 3.6.3-1 kernel. it won't boot to gnome, i remove it and reinstall mesa-libGL.
any solution how to get it to work? thx

[Yellowman]

hi, i have a hd4290 onboard card, i installed akmod 12.10 on 3.6.3-1 kernel. it won't boot to gnome, i remove it and reinstall mesa-libGL.
any solution how to get it to work? thx

Try reading the last 20 + posts

[Yellowman]

Catalyst legacy driver is now included in the rpmfusion repo

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...st-legacy.html

[lockheed02]

Catalyst legacy driver is now included in the rpmfusion repo

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...st-legacy.html

Yay! finally I can switch my GTS 250 to the 3650 again!

Lockheed

[flebber]

i have just installed and have a working radeon beta driver for F18 from the rpmfusion akmod.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i "\(render\|opengl\)"
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_copy_image,

Trying to change the power profile to auto.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
bash: /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method: No such file or directory
[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
bash: /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile: No such file or directory

So i thought it may be simply that card0 was not the name. However the whole directory does not exist.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ cd /sys/class/drm
bash: cd: /sys/class/drm: No such file or directory

How can I change the power profile in F18 with the radeon driver?

[Fenrin]

i have just installed and have a working radeon beta driver for F18 from the rpmfusion akmod.
[...]
How can I change the power profile in F18 with the radeon driver?

it looks like you installed the proprietary AMD driver. With this the power profiles have no effect. Power saving features should just work automatically, if it's correctly installed.

The power profiles are just useful if you use the default (Open Source) Radeon driver.

[flebber]

I was reading this from Jun 2011 http://pm-blog.yarda.eu/2011/12/tip-...s-for.html?m=1

From kernel 2.6.35 and up Radeon driver supports power management (PM). The default behavior is performance oriented, thus if you want to save some power you will need to tune the defaults

Ps by default I got better battery. But since default is 'power' I would like to change.

[Fenrin]

I was reading this from Jun 2011[...]

the Radeon driver included in the linux kernel is the Open Source one. But you installed the proprietary driver, didn't you?

[flebber]

i have just installed and have a working radeon beta driver for F18 from the rpmfusion akmod.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ glxinfo |grep -i "\(render\|opengl\)"
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11995 Compatibility Profile Context
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL extensions:
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_copy_image,

Trying to change the power profile to auto.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
bash: /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method: No such file or directory
[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ echo auto > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
bash: /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile: No such file or directory

So i thought it may be simply that card0 was not the name. However the whole directory does not exist.

[sayth@renshawfamily ~]$ cd /sys/class/drm
bash: cd: /sys/class/drm: No such file or directory

How can I change the power profile in F18 with the radeon driver?

the Radeon driver included in the linux kernel is the Open Source one. But you installed the proprietary driver, didn't you?

Yeah I installed proprietary. Tried hard not too but I clearly need kernel 3.7 or 3.8 to get improved Radeon support for battery. 3.7 won't be in till after release so proprietary until I can see how they go.

[mzt]

Yay!!!!! first version of 2013 is released.

13.1 is out and I see it's also got the performance fixes for Valve Steam for Linux.

[366820] Performance of Valve Linux games

Full release notes here http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...easeNotes.aspx. Now just waiting for an rpmfusion build. I see kernel 3.7.3 also made it's appearance.

Between Catalyst 13.1, Valve Steam for Linux and kernel 3.7.3, it looks like a good month for some new toys and gaming fun.

for the kernel 3.7.3 Catalyst 12.10 build guys, installed it this morning and looking good.

[mzt]

I see that the FC18 rpmfusion repo has builds for Catalyst 13.1 , will there be builds for FC17 as well or is 12.10 the cut off for FC17?

[mzt]

I see that the FC18 rpmfusion repo has builds for Catalyst 13.1 , will there be builds for FC17 as well or is 12.10 the cut off for FC17?

I've been looking at upgrading to FC18. Here's some advice for anyone thinking of upgrading.

Firstly, there's no point in downloading the iso's if you want to upgrade as the anaconda installer can't do upgrades any more. Resorting to the new FedUp upgrade tool, was horribly painful as it's buggy as hell and can't seem to handle installations on encrypted partitions. There are currently numerous bugs listed for FedUp namely, bugzilla's 881624, 896010 and 891786 to name a few. The latter one of which is tripping me up.

All in all I'd rather avoid FC18 like the plague and wait for FC19 and continue using Catalyst 12.10 on FC17 for now.

[gman1]

I've been looking at upgrading to FC18. Here's some advice for anyone thinking of upgrading.

Firstly, there's no point in downloading the iso's if you want to upgrade as the anaconda installer can't do upgrades any more. Resorting to the new FedUp upgrade tool, was horribly painful as it's buggy as hell and can't seem to handle installations on encrypted partitions. There are currently numerous bugs listed for FedUp namely, bugzilla's 881624, 896010 and 891786 to name a few. The latter one of which is tripping me up.

All in all I'd rather avoid FC18 like the plague and wait for FC19 and continue using Catalyst 12.10 on FC17 for now.

Agreed!!!!

[Raff00]

Everything was all right here with this installation. Greatly improved performance.
But the thing is, I was running Xen.
And now, when I boot 'Fedora with Xen' it hangs at the end of the startup.
When I boot without Xen, only 'Fedora', works normal.
I think it must be something in the step to generate a new initramfs.
You know how can I solve this?
Thank you.

[lx6544]

Hey there,

today I got my Radeon HD 7750 and had a few problems with it.

However, with this tutorial from a german fedora board I managed to run my HD 7750 with Catalyst 13.1 and Kernel 3.7.3-101. It might help you as well:

Create missing version.h for Kernel 3.7.3:
sudo gedit /lib/modules/3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h

Insert the following lines and save the file:
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 198403
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

Download Catalyst driver 13.1:
wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/am...x86.x86_64.zip

Unzip the drivers:
unzip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

Make the installer executable:
chmod +x amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Run the installer:
sudo ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Building the kernel modules WILL fail. Do NOT reboot after installation!

Patch firegl_public.c:
sudo gedit /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c

Add the following lines directly after line 100 and save the file:
#ifndef VM_RESERVED
#define VM_RESERVED (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP)
#endif

Compiling the kernel modules should work now:
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
sudo ./make.sh

cd /lib/modules/fglrx/
sudo ./make_install.sh

Reboot and the kernel module should load properly.

If the 32bit OpenGL libraries are needed, they just have to be linked properly:
ln -s /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1 /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libAMDXvBA.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libAMDXvBA.so.1.0
ln -s /usr/lib32/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
ln -s /usr/lib32/libOpenCL.so.1 /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libSlotMaximizerAg.so /usr/lib/libSlotMaximizerAg.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so /usr/lib/libXvBAW.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1 /usr/lib/libXvBAW.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libXvBAW.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libXvBAW.so.1.0
ln -s /usr/lib32/libamdocl32.so /usr/lib/libamdocl32.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libatiadlxx.so /usr/lib/libatiadlxx.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libaticalcl.so /usr/lib/libaticalcl.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libaticaldd.so /usr/lib/libaticaldd.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libaticalrt.so /usr/lib/libaticalrt.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so /usr/lib/libatiuki.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1 /usr/lib/libatiuki.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libatiuki.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libatiuki.so.1.0
ln -s /usr/lib32/libfglrx_dm.so /usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so
ln -s /usr/lib32/libfglrx_dm.so.1 /usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib32/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libfglrx_dm.so.1.0
mkdir /usr/lib/dri
ln -s /usr/lib32/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so

Credits go the Xziped from FedoraForum.de.


Greetz,
Alex