ATI 8.27.10 Linux driver Discussion

Kombatant · Jul 28, 2006, 06:15 PM

Another month, another release from ATI. Here's a part from the release notes:

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New Features

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This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. This include:

X.org 7.1 Support

This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces support for X.org 7.1 X Server via the ATI Driver Installer as well as via packages for supported distributions that utilize X.org 7.1.

Fedora Core Package Support

This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver adds Fedora Core package support on top of the growing list of per distribution generatable packages. Fedora Core users are encouraged to use this mechanism to install the ATI Linux Proprietary Driver.

Resolved Issues

The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These include:

TV Out is currently not supported on the ATI Radeon® X1x00 products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22057
Resolution of a number of rendering issues affecting the OpenGL-based Java2D pipeline. Java users are highly encouraged to upgrade their ATI Proprietary Linux drivers to version 8.27.10 or higher. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22840
Resolution of an XGL startup issue that prevented users from starting XGL on display :0. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22841

Read: Release Notes
Download: Driver Package

RIV@NVX · Jul 30, 2006, 03:48 AM

Interesting, they haven't fixed "Attempting to use 3D applications on Radeon 9000/9100/9200/9250 and FireGL 8x00 products fails to start and reports back something similar to “[fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS”. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22637"
and Remi Collet claims to had it working on 9250 (and even run glxgears, as far as I understand French).

UberLord · Aug 1, 2006, 11:58 AM

About time they got support for xorg-7.1

This is good news as Gentoo is holding back making 7.1 stable X server on Gentoo for x86 and amd64 because nVidia and ATI proprietry drivers didn't support it. Now at least ATI does - one down, one to go

RIV@NVX · Aug 1, 2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by UberLord

About time they got support for xorg-7.1

Indeed.

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This is good news as Gentoo is holding back making 7.1 stable X server on Gentoo for x86 and amd64 because nVidia and ATI proprietry drivers didn't support it. Now at least ATI does - one down, one to go

Now, that's something that should really be discussed. We haven't moved very far if we depend on companies and proprietary software.

UberLord · Aug 2, 2006, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by RIV@NVX

Now, that's something that should really be discussed. We haven't moved very far if we depend on companies and proprietary software.

Well, non x86 and amd64 platforms have xorg-7.1 marked as stable on them. The only issue is that our x86 and amd64 users like to play games - like Doom3, Quake4, etc which currently do not run well enough with the open source drivers.

The fact that no 3D chip maker aside from Intel wants to open specs of current hardware for a working open source driver kinda hinders development.

UberLord · Aug 2, 2006, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by RIV@NVX

Now, that's something that should really be discussed. We haven't moved very far if we depend on companies and proprietary software.

Well, non x86 and amd64 platforms have xorg-7.1 marked as stable on them. The only issue is that our x86 and amd64 users like to play games - like Doom3, Quake4, etc which currently do not run well enough with the open source drivers.

One option discussed was to mark 7.1 stable on x86 and amd64 and let the users p.mask 7.1 if they need to. I feel this is the correct route to take, but it was not chosen. Ah well.

The fact that no 3D chip maker aside from Intel wants to open specs of current hardware for a working open source driver kinda hinders development.

lovswr · Aug 2, 2006, 03:24 PM

So for a FC5 distro, I would select Custom, & then Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package? Then select Generate ATI Packages? Is that correct or will Automatic catch FC5 & then do what needs to be done?

RIV@NVX · Aug 2, 2006, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by lovswr

So for a FC5 distro, I would select Custom, & then Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package? Then select Generate ATI Packages? Is that correct or will Automatic catch FC5 & then do what needs to be done?

I would bet on the command:

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rpm -ivh <name of package>

jhutter · Aug 13, 2006, 09:34 PM

I'm trying to get an ATI AIW X1900 to work with a Syntax LT37HVS LCD (http://secure.syntaxgroups.com/produ...sp?pid=LT37HVS) on Ubuntu 6.06.1. I can get the video to work at various resolutions and get ~9000 fps with glxgears. The problem is that I can't get the desktop to fill the entire screen i.e., there is a black band around all the edges. Iff I change the resolution to 1920x1080 (in xorg.conf) then it uses the full screen, but the desktop is larger than the screen i.e., I'm missing content from around all the edges.

I can use an MSI K8NGM2-FID based on Nvidia 6150 chipset and it fills up the screen at 1280x720 resolution with this modeline:

Code:

ModeLine       "1280x720_60.00" 74.5 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync

Using this modeline (full xorg.conf below) with the X1900 ends up with resolution at 1152x648x60. I can change the resolution using "screen-resolution" within gnome. If I change it to 1920x1080x30 I end up with the desktop being cut off around the edges.

I'm using:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-26-amd64-k8 2.6.15.11-3
xorg-driver-fglrx 7.0.0-8.25.18+2.6.15.11-3
fglrx-control 8.25.18+2.6.15.11-3

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Files"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
        Load  "bitmap"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "ddc"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit XVideo"
                Option      "omit XVideo-MotionCompensation"
                Option      "omit XFree86-VidModeExtension"
        EndSubSection
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "int10"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "v4l"
        Load  "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "DFP-0"
        HorizSync    15.0 - 46.0
        VertRefresh  59.0 - 61.0
        ModeLine     "1280x720_60.46" 75.0 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device     "ATI Technologies, Inc. ATI Default Card"
        Monitor    "DFP-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x720"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

The associated Xorg.log.0 is at:
http://home.nc.rr.com/jhjb/Xorg.log.0

jbaribeault · Aug 15, 2006, 10:29 AM

Since > 8.25.18, I haven't been able to use the drivers as they make the LCD screen on my LG LW65 go wonky - almost like it is being overdriven. I can launch X, watch movies, go full screen just fine, but the second I try to change resolutions (launch game ie Tuxracer, ZSNES) etc., I get the screen corruption. If is switch between VTYs with Ctrl-Shift-F1 and then back to F7 a few times, I can sometimes get it to clear up. Sometimes, I have to kill X and then from the corrupt VTY, relaunch it to get it to clear up. This is preventing me from using the newer drivers and the newer versions of X.

Any ideas?