Fedora 20 AMD catalyst driver

[ravenfrost]

Thanks to everybody on this list, I managed to successfully install the Catalyst 13.11 beta in Fedora 20.

How did you do that? For as far as i have understand the driver does not seem to work with Gnome yet...
Because i did a try to install the stable (or what to call it) driver and that didnt work.

[Maxtorete]

How did you do that? For as far as i have understand the driver does not seem to work with Gnome yet...
Because i did a try to install the stable (or what to call it) driver and that didnt work.

Install (or reinstall) the packages from here and then reinstall the binary driver. It works fine.

Edited: I forgot to say that I has updated the packages to match the latest from Fedora repos.

[williamove]

I installed the packages from mediafire and installed the lastest Catalyst beta from AMD and the setup is working fine with Fedora 20 and the Gnome Shell.

I ran Fedora 20 on a desktop and an old thinkpad. I was given a nice new Toshiba laptop with an AMD APU which requires the Catalyst drivers in order to wake from sleep. This has been true trying a few different distributions. It is very nice to get it working with Fedora 20 and the Gnome Shell.

I am a bit concerned how the custom packages and custom driver install will work going forward as the packages from the normal channels are upgraded.

bill

[Maxtorete]

I am a bit concerned how the custom packages and custom driver install will work going forward as the packages from the normal channels are upgraded.

bill

If you update any of the recompiled rpms, then it will stop working, so you must be careful when doing a yum update. If you install a new kernel or xorg package, then you will have to reinstall the propietary driver.

I have updated the gnome-shell package again with today's update.

[ravenfrost]

Install (or reinstall) the packages from here and then reinstall the binary driver. It works fine.

Edited: I forgot to say that I has updated the packages to match the latest from Fedora repos.

Do i have to uninstall the packages before i install them from your link?
Because remove gnome shell does not seem like a good thing...

[hotsauce]

You guys are doing what seems to be a lot of hackery when it doesn't have to be that way. Why not just install from ATI? Here is what I did on my fresh install yesterday: http://rundata.wordpress.com/2014/02...-in-fedora-20/

This was easy as it gets besides having it in repos. I'm running just fine with great graphics. Supposedly the driver from ATI is simply better anyway. I guess if "muh freedoms" applies you will inclined otherwise. You guys can run a .run file right? If you guys are running Gnome you may have some issue because the code conflicts with the ATI code. This is becauseGnome has embraced the Wayland dispaly server now.

Edit: To be clear, if you are a non-Gnome user...

[Maxtorete]

Do i have to uninstall the packages before i install them from your link?
Because remove gnome shell does not seem like a good thing...

No, you don't have to uninstall any package. You should use the yum command reinstall instead of install for the packages you have already installed.

Don't remove any packages or you will enter in a dependency nightmare.

You guys are doing what seems to be a lot of hackery when it doesn't have to be that way. Why not just install from ATI? Here is what I did on my fresh install yesterday: http://rundata.wordpress.com/2014/02...-in-fedora-20/

This was easy as it gets besides having it in repos. I'm running just fine with great graphics. Supposedly the driver from ATI is simply better anyway. I guess if "muh freedoms" applies you will inclined otherwise. You guys can run a .run file right? If you guys are running Gnome you may have some issue because the code conflicts with the ATI code. This is becauseGnome has embraced the Wayland dispaly server now.

Yes, we can run a .run, in fact, we are installing the the catalyst drivers with the .run file from AMD.

Obviously we are doing that hackery because we want to use Gnome and it's Gnome Shell with catalyst proprietary driver.

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[hotsauce]

Yes, we can run a .run, in fact, we are installing the the catalyst drivers with the .run file from AMD.

Obviously we are doing that hackery because we want to use Gnome and it's Gnome Shell with catalyst proprietary driver.

Relax, I wasn't really being sarcastic. The Gnome issue was addressed by me and several other people throughout the internet. Believe it or not, people are still trying other things and having other issues besides just that and there are still people not really wanting to install the proprietary driver. This must be frustrating because I know without my driver, my machine graphics look like something designed for vision impaired people.

[ravenfrost]

Reinstalled the packages and the driver now works perfect.

Thanks.

[castagna]

FYI, kernel 3.13.2 (available in koji) brings huge improvements to the ati open-source driver. Of course it is still not comparable with Catalyst driver but now performances are good enough for me. So if you want to stick to the open-source driver and/or avoid all the work described in this forum to use catalyst with gnome 3.10, this kernel is worth a try.

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//p...0.fc20.src.rpm

[ravenfrost]

In this driver is there any x32 bit libraries included? Or is it pure x64 fglrx install? Because i need x32 bit libraries to use PlayonLinux... so how do i install the x32 bit opengl libraries?

[EFakles]

FYI, kernel 3.13.2 (available in koji) brings huge improvements to the ati open-source driver. Of course it is still not comparable with Catalyst driver but now performances are good enough for me. So if you want to stick to the open-source driver and/or avoid all the work described in this forum to use catalyst with gnome 3.10, this kernel is worth a try.

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//p...0.fc20.src.rpm

O.K. that's just a subjective perception, but i feel the fan noise is annoyingly louder with the open-source driver than with the proprietary driver (at least with my HD7950).


What really puzzles me, that there is no mention in the Upgrade Issues section of the "Common F20 Bugs" about the ORPHANED drivers.
Sure I'm a little bit late, but i wanted too wait till possible bugs are solved, and then still the upgrade ends will a blank screen

Since using Fedora for a long time, I had no problems removing the Catalyst packages and get a working system, but any mention of that issue would've saved a lot of time.

[lockheed02]

In this driver is there any x32 bit libraries included? Or is it pure x64 fglrx install? Because i need x32 bit libraries to use PlayonLinux... so how do i install the x32 bit opengl libraries?

I guess this would solve this (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296209 ) for AMD cards. Happy gaming times for steam and wine too ^^

Lockheed

[lockheed02]

I guess this would solve this (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296209 ) for AMD cards. Happy gaming times for steam and wine too ^^

Lockheed

oh, spend some time with the installer. I let it create some rpms and found there 2 files in /usr/lib/fglrx subfolders of those packages: switchlibGL and switchlibglx. Both are there to switch from intel to amd version of glx. However, aftercopying them to my /usr/lib/fglrx and a

[root@heisenbug fglrx]# ./switchlibGL amd
[root@heisenbug fglrx]# ./switchlibglx amd

neither steam nor wine now complain about missing 32bit glx anymore and run games that refused to start at all before. Yay!

Lockheed

[chuckination]

I've had a similar experience trying to get Catalyst support for Fedora 20, much less simply having a newer version of the driver to support my r270x card. I firmly believe in doing what needs to be done, so I updated the package.

I've got SRPMs for version 14.1 beta 1.3 of the Catalyst driver with the GLES SDK libraries added to the package. What that means is that you have support for newer hardware models and it supports the EGL2/GLES libraries necessary for Wayland in Fedora 20 and onward. I'm waiting to hear back from another developer on the outcomes of his tests on Fedora 20, and I've had success with it in Fedora 19.

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3109