Howto for fglrx / catalyst (Ati driver) - Page 261

5hady · #**3901** 23rd February 2010, 05:26 AM

having these ati gpus kinda makes me angry tho.

shep · #**3902** 25th February 2010, 08:44 PM

Almost working - compiz would work fine in KDE (except for a strange mouse cursor issue that was present in both de's), but switching to Gnome(my preferred desktop) resulted in major instability: random locks/hangs/restarts of window manager with no window borders. Every successful reboot required the deletion of all compiz configs so that I could actually use my GUI in any way, shape or form. Eventually, I just altered the gconf-editor to switch back to metacity as default and checked the composite_manager checkbox to get some true transparency for my terminal.

My ATi drivers are obviously working - "glxinfo | grep render" gives my a "yes", and fgl_glxgears was running at ~3200fps (fullscreen) on my 4870.

I didn't even want anything too fancy - some transparency was all I was after, so I switched to xfce and everything is now as I wanted it without running compiz. The system is not sluggish in any way, and the mouse cursor artefact issue is not present at all.

Got to admit (slightly off topic) - i'm really liking xfce. The de is easily as fast as Gnome on my system.

Cyberhawk · #**3903** 28th February 2010, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demz

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With the X.Org Server 1.7-using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS coming in April, Catalyst 10.3 or 10.4 will support this updated X.Org Server finally.
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Why is the issue so fixed to a release of a new Ubuntu version?
That basically means one is better of with using Ubuntu to have
good support of Radeon-cards?

#**3904** 28th February 2010, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberhawk

Why is the issue so fixed to a release of a new Ubuntu version?
That basically means one is better of with using Ubuntu to have
good support of Radeon-cards?

Ubuntu Probably use a hack like everything else they do

. 10.3 Driver should have 1.7 support

**AdamW** · #**3905** 2nd March 2010, 07:24 PM

Canonical has some kind of relationship with ATI here. Obviously, since Red Hat and Fedora prioritize the development of free software over non-free, we don't have any such relationship over the proprietary driver, though we do work together with ATI/AMD on developing the free driver.

tofara · #**3906** 13th March 2010, 11:07 PM

hello the catalyst drive 10.2 it's compatible of fedora 12 ?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...1&lang=English

kbs1 · #**3907** 13th March 2010, 11:30 PM

at this time, no

lordamus · #**3908** 14th March 2010, 09:48 PM

İs there anyone getting fglrx working on radeon xpress 200M onboard F11?

joe.pelayo · #**3909** 14th March 2010, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordamus

İs there anyone getting fglrx working on radeon xpress 200M onboard F11?

I believe that, unless you get an older version of the fglrx driver, that card is no longer supported by the fglrx driver. I have the Radeon Xpress 1100 (a refurbished 200M) in my older laptop and it works very well with the mesa-dri-experimental (something like that) driver.

Good luck,
Joe.

lordamus · #**3910** 15th March 2010, 12:59 AM

yea I know thats another big problem.. also lots of laptops has Xpress 200M.. I need working solution..

PGHammer · #**3911** 15th March 2010, 01:57 AM

Addendum: You may not even *miss* the Linux Catalyst/fglrx drivers in F12 or even F13 *unless* you are running HD5xxx. I have HD3450 and am running F13 alpha, but have KDE and compiz mixed (using compiz as the compositing manager for KDE 4.4.1, which would have been unthinkable with F12 or earlier). Stability is as good as it has ever been.

---------- Post added at 08:57 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM CDT ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by joe.pelayo

I believe that, unless you get an older version of the fglrx driver, that card is no longer supported by the fglrx driver. I have the Radeon Xpress 1100 (a refurbished 200M) in my older laptop and it works very well with the mesa-dri-experimental (something like that) driver.

Good luck,
Joe.

You mean mesa-dri-driver-experimental; it's an alternative to other FOSS drivers (and especially for F13, which has too new a kernel/too new a version of X for Linux Catalyst to support); I'm using it with my HD3450 for precisely that reason. The stability has let me swap compositing managers (compiz for KWin), despite KWin's improvements in performance.

joe.pelayo · #**3912** 15th March 2010, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PGHammer

Addendum: You may not even *miss* the Linux Catalyst/fglrx drivers in F12 or even F13 *unless* you are running HD5xxx. I have HD3450 and am running F13 alpha, but have KDE and compiz mixed (using compiz as the compositing manager for KDE 4.4.1, which would have been unthinkable with F12 or earlier). Stability is as good as it has ever been.

---------- Post added at 08:57 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 08:52 PM CDT ----------

You mean mesa-dri-driver-experimental; it's an alternative to other FOSS drivers (and especially for F13, which has too new a kernel/too new a version of X for Linux Catalyst to support); I'm using it with my HD3450 for precisely that reason. The stability has let me swap compositing managers (compiz for KWin), despite KWin's improvements in performance.

Then I suppose I'm a lucky guy because my HD3200 works flawlessly with it (GNOME+Compiz).

Thanks,
Joe.

kurtie · #**3913** 22nd March 2010, 11:21 AM

Hi,

I've installed fglrx using this howto in a FC11. It works fine... well, almost. The screen freezes from time to time. It could work for hours, but then it locks up. The computer is still running as I can connect via SSH. Tried to restart X, but then all the computer freezes. The video card is a 4350, kernel is 2.6.30.10 and catalyst installed is 10.1. I've been searching Google and these forums, and I've not had luck troubleshooting this. Maybe somebody here knows a workaround (I'm sure must be one, but which one?)

Regards,
Kurt.-

reader69 · #**3914** 23rd March 2010, 07:58 AM

I had same problem, with my laptop's HD3470. I tried several kernel parameter options, without any luck. Sometimes it works for hours, but sometimes it freezes immediately after login, sometimes not....
Conclusion: I switched back to radeon driver, and upgraded my FC11 box to FC12, and installed mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package, for limited 3d support.

kurtie · #**3915** 23rd March 2010, 11:57 AM

Yesterday tried to install 10.2 Catalyst driver from ATI... it almost worked but radeon driver was being loaded even being blacklisted in modprobe. I only was able to make it work by manually unloading radeon, and reloading fglrx, and even then, switching to text mode corrupted the screen.

I finally opted to go back to radeon driver. I've been able to set up dual head and no 3D support at all. But this time, no way.