Fedora 20 AMD catalyst driver

pkands · #1 18th December 2013, 07:51 PM

I now have a graphics card that might benefit from using the AMD catalyst driver.
Does anyone have a guess when akmod-catalyst for F20 might arrive?

#2 18th December 2013, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkands

I now have a graphics card that might benefit from using the AMD catalyst driver.
Does anyone have a guess when akmod-catalyst for F20 might arrive?

NEVER, I orphaned it, no one else volunteered to maintain it so it's been removed.

digiscuro · #3 18th December 2013, 08:24 PM

Has anyone been able to get the AMD binary install working? They used to work for me in FC19, but now I get a black screen on boot.

kkshethin · #4 19th December 2013, 08:39 AM

This is really sad news for me as i am going to patiently wait for akmod-catalyst.
In fedora 19 it was must for my laptop. Please refer to my thread "http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295541".

I know that leigh may be overburdned. But I was hoping. I could not help in as much i have had no programing knowledge, otherwise i could have offered to maintain it.

In any cae, thanks leigh atleast for maintaining it upto fedora19.

SCosimo · #5 19th December 2013, 10:11 AM

I upgraded to Fedora 20 and got black screen. How to fix it?

#6 19th December 2013, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkshethin

This is really sad news for me as i am going to patiently wait for akmod-catalyst.
In fedora 19 it was must for my laptop. Please refer to my thread "http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295541".

I know that leigh may be overburdned. But I was hoping. I could not help in as much i have had no programing knowledge, otherwise i could have offered to maintain it.

In any cae, thanks leigh atleast for maintaining it upto fedora19.

You could try the F19 catalyst packages in F20

Maxtorete · #7 19th December 2013, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

You could try the F19 catalyst packages in F20

That is not a good idea, because he will get a black screen. There is a problem with Catalyst and F20 Wayland support on Gnome Shell, as described in this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295259

At the moment if you want to use Catalyst drivers you must continue with F19.

PS: I haven't tried new Catalyst 13.12 drivers, but I don't hope that they will work on F20.

#8 19th December 2013, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maxtorete

That is not a good idea, because he will get a black screen. There is a problem with Catalyst and F20 Wayland support on Gnome Shell, as described in this thread:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295259

At the moment if you want to use Catalyst drivers you must continue with F19.

PS: I haven't tried new Catalyst 13.12 drivers, but I don't hope that they will work on F20.

I wouldn't know as I haven't had any ATI hardware for two years, being unable to test is why I orphaned catalyst at rpmfusion.
It should work in theory as the kernel and xorg versions are the same as F19.

Maxtorete · #9 19th December 2013, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

I wouldn't know as I haven't had any ATI hardware for two years, being unable to test is why I orphaned catalyst at rpmfusion.
It should work in theory as the kernel and xorg versions are the same as F19.

I didn't want to be rude with you, I was an entusiast user of your packages and forum posts for years!

It works fine with the Xorg server and the kernel, but Gnome doesn't work. II think the problem is on the EGL side, as it is not supported by Catalystand and has been enabled by default in F20 Gnome packages.

#10 19th December 2013, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maxtorete

I didn't want to be rude with you, I was an entusiast user of your packages and forum posts for years!

It works fine with the Xorg server and the kernel, but Gnome doesn't work. II think the problem is on the EGL side, as it is not supported by Catalystand and has been enabled by default in F20 Gnome packages.

It could be EGL, there is a patch to add support to catalyst package

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2914

You could rebuild this modified srpm.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2.fc19.src.rpm

pkands · #11 19th December 2013, 03:13 PM

Has anyone using Mate tried the driver?
Does mate use EGL..?

#12 19th December 2013, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkands

Has anyone using Mate tried the driver?
Does mate use EGL..?

From the reports it only affect apps and DE using cogl and clutter, Mate doesn't use cogl or clutter.

Code:

# repoquery --whatrequires mesa-libEGL
bijiben-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
cairo-0:1.13.1-0.1.git337ab1f.fc20.i686
cairo-0:1.13.1-0.1.git337ab1f.fc20.x86_64
cairo-gobject-0:1.13.1-0.1.git337ab1f.fc20.i686
cairo-gobject-0:1.13.1-0.1.git337ab1f.fc20.x86_64
caribou-0:0.4.13-1.fc20.i686
caribou-0:0.4.13-1.fc20.x86_64
cheese-2:3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64
cheese-libs-2:3.10.2-1.fc20.i686
cheese-libs-2:3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64
cinnamon-0:2.0.13-3.fc20.x86_64
cinnamon-0:2.0.14-4.fc20.x86_64
clutter-0:1.16.2-1.fc20.i686
clutter-0:1.16.2-1.fc20.x86_64
clutter-gst-0:1.6.0-8.fc20.i686
clutter-gst-0:1.6.0-8.fc20.x86_64
clutter-gst2-0:2.0.8-1.fc20.i686
clutter-gst2-0:2.0.8-1.fc20.x86_64
clutter-gtk-0:1.4.4-3.fc20.i686
clutter-gtk-0:1.4.4-3.fc20.x86_64
cogl-0:1.16.0-2.fc20.i686
cogl-0:1.16.0-2.fc20.x86_64
empathy-0:3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64
empathy-0:3.10.2-2.fc20.x86_64
eog-plugins-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-boxes-0:3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-color-manager-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-color-manager-0:3.10.1-2.fc20.x86_64
gnome-contacts-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-nibbles-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
gnome-shell-0:3.10.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64
gnome-shell-0:3.10.2.1-3.fc20.x86_64
gpx-viewer-0:0.3.0-2.fc20.x86_64
gpx-viewer-0:0.4.0-1.fc20.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.2.1-2.fc20.i686
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-0:1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64
kde-workspace-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.x86_64
kde-workspace-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.x86_64
kde-workspace-libs-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.i686
kde-workspace-libs-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.x86_64
kde-workspace-libs-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.i686
kde-workspace-libs-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.x86_64
kwin-gles-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.x86_64
kwin-gles-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.x86_64
kwin-gles-libs-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.i686
kwin-gles-libs-0:4.11.3-1.fc20.x86_64
kwin-gles-libs-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.i686
kwin-gles-libs-0:4.11.3-5.fc20.x86_64
libmash-0:0.2.0-11.fc20.i686
libmash-0:0.2.0-11.fc20.x86_64
libmx-0:1.4.7-9.fc20.i686
libmx-0:1.4.7-9.fc20.x86_64
libva-0:1.2.1-2.fc20.i686
libva-0:1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64
libwebkit2gtk-0:2.2.2-2.fc20.i686
libwebkit2gtk-0:2.2.2-2.fc20.x86_64
libwebkit2gtk-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.i686
libwebkit2gtk-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64
lightsoff-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
media-explorer-0:0.4.4-4.fc20.i686
media-explorer-0:0.4.4-4.fc20.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-devel-0:9.2.3-1.20131114.fc20.i686
mesa-libEGL-devel-0:9.2.3-1.20131114.fc20.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-devel-0:9.2.4-1.20131128.fc20.i686
mesa-libEGL-devel-0:9.2.4-1.20131128.fc20.x86_64
mplayer-0:1.1-16.20131125svn.fc20.x86_64
mplayer-gui-0:1.1-16.20131125svn.fc20.x86_64
muffin-0:2.0.5-1.fc20.i686
muffin-0:2.0.5-1.fc20.x86_64
muffin-devel-0:2.0.5-1.fc20.i686
muffin-devel-0:2.0.5-1.fc20.x86_64
mutter-0:3.10.2-2.fc20.i686
mutter-0:3.10.2-2.fc20.x86_64
mutter-wayland-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.i686
mutter-wayland-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
nemo-preview-0:2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc20.x86_64
pcsx2-0:1.1.0-5.fc20.i686
pinpoint-0:0.1.4-15.fc20.x86_64
presence-0:0.4.8-8.fc20.x86_64
qt5-qtbase-gui-0:5.2.0-0.7.beta1.20131108_141.fc20.i686
qt5-qtbase-gui-0:5.2.0-0.7.beta1.20131108_141.fc20.x86_64
quadrapassel-0:3.10.2-1.fc20.x86_64
rhythmbox-0:3.0-3.fc20.i686
rhythmbox-0:3.0-3.fc20.x86_64
snappy-player-0:0.3.7-2.20131121git0bd0c0c3.fc20.x86_64
sushi-0:3.10.0-1.fc20.x86_64
swell-foop-0:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
totem-1:3.10.1-1.fc20.i686
totem-1:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
totem-lirc-1:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
totem-mozplugin-1:3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64
webkitgtk-0:2.2.2-1.fc20.i686
webkitgtk-0:2.2.2-1.fc20.x86_64
webkitgtk-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.i686
webkitgtk-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64
webkitgtk3-0:2.2.2-2.fc20.i686
webkitgtk3-0:2.2.2-2.fc20.x86_64
webkitgtk3-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.i686
webkitgtk3-0:2.2.3-1.fc20.x86_64
weston-0:1.2.0-2.fc20.x86_64
xorg-x11-glamor-0:0.5.1-1.20131009gitba209eee.fc20.i686
xorg-x11-glamor-0:0.5.1-1.20131009gitba209eee.fc20.x86_64

My previous post has a modified catalyst srpm with EGL support

Maxtorete · #13 19th December 2013, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh123linux

It could be EGL, there is a patch to add support to catalyst package

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2914

You could rebuild this modified srpm.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2.fc19.src.rpm

The SRPM doesn't work either

castagna · #14 19th December 2013, 08:22 PM

I've tried to remove the wayland support by recompiling the rpms as suggested in the third post of

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295259

Unfortunately the method above no longer works since, I guess, the wayland patch has been included in the current package. Any cue?

fadamsxii · #15 20th December 2013, 11:09 AM

I had to register just to say this: if Fedora won't support a major graphics driver, the project is going to lose a hell of alot of mindshare. And why haven't any officials from the project said anything about this? This is a pretty major issue, quite a number of people use Catalyst and other distros have it as well. Too bad the Binary doesn't work.

Honestly, I would have never upgraded (which to be honest is feeling like a Windows 8 style downgrade since AMD users are forced to use mesa now, no matter what, apparently. So much for freedom of choice, eh?) if I had known that Catalyst was orphaned and wont get a release on Fedora 20.

I don't blame you for quitting Leigh, with no support and a different hardware vendor than what you were working on, I'd have done the same. And thank you for working on this for as long as you did.