Problems building 8.7 RPMs on Fedora 9 x86_64

[r0d3nt]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to build the packages from the 8.7 release on Fedora 9 x86_64 and am running into a bizarre error that I've not run into before from building prior version of the FGLRX driver.

Here is the output:

[root@intelc2d 8.7]# sh ../../ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/F9
Created directory fglrx-install.cyc6Mh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.512............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...............................................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Generating package: Fedora/F9
mv: cannot stat `/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.512-1-6957-root/BUILD/ATI-fglrx-8.512/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.512-1-6957-root/BUILD/ATI-fglrx-8.512/usr/X11R6/lib/*.so.*': No such file or directory
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
error: %changelog entries must start with *
Building target platforms: x86_64
Building for target x86_64
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.cyc6Mh

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?

[Nille]

IS FC9 not using a pre release from xserver 1.5 ? because fglrx dont support xserver 1.5

[Dropknee]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to build the packages from the 8.7 release on Fedora 9 x86_64 and am running into a bizarre error that I've not run into before from building prior version of the FGLRX driver.

Here is the output:

[root@intelc2d 8.7]# sh ../../ati-driver-installer-8-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/F9
Created directory fglrx-install.cyc6Mh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.512............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...............................................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Generating package: Fedora/F9
mv: cannot stat `/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.512-1-6957-root/BUILD/ATI-fglrx-8.512/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/*': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/tmp/ATI-fglrx-8.512-1-6957-root/BUILD/ATI-fglrx-8.512/usr/X11R6/lib/*.so.*': No such file or directory
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
error: %changelog entries must start with *
Building target platforms: x86_64
Building for target x86_64
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.cyc6Mh

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?

I have similar error building the package for Ubuntu 8.04, this is the output:

Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.512............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...............................................
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Generating package: Ubuntu/hardy
Resolving build dependencies...
./packages/Ubuntu/ati-packager.sh: 364: sh -c '/usr/sbin/synaptic --set-selections --non-interactive --hide-main-window < /tmp/fileOvtrNe': not found
Unable to resolve cdbs. Please manually install and try again.
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package fglrx-installer
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2:8.512-0ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by ATI Technologies Inc. <http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html>
debian/rules build
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
debian/rules:6: /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk'. Stop.
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.SY6849

Any clues???

[Nille]

Dropknee install cdbs Unable to resolve cdbs. Please manually install and try again.

[lowlands]

error: %changelog entries must start with *

You need to make sure that the spec file contains a proper changelog.
This is how a changelog section in a spec file should look like:

%changelog
* Tue Jul 22 2008 Foo Bar <foobar@example.org>
- bugfix release

Looking at the error I'd say there is an "*" missing in the %changelog section in the spec file. Add the "*" then try again.

[Kano]

Until you downgrade the Xserver the driver is useless anyway.

[r0d3nt]

Thanx for the responses everyone. Looks like I'll have to wait until the next release...again...to see if it will work with Fedora 9. At this rate, a compatible driver for Fedora 9 will be out when Fedora 10 is ready to go...

[Dropknee]

Dropknee install cdbs

Thanks Nille, install the cdbs do the trick, but is strange, the previous drivers don't need this package, maybe they change the way to build this new drivers.

Thanks a lot again :)

Time to test another hope

[Dropknee]

Well going back to Catalyst 8.4, this driver still have the Wine bug, the screen corruption. Catalyst 8.4 work great for me and didn't have this bug, I still have problem with Silkroad Online, but WoW play fine, with some minor glitches and I can play movie without flickering, in this driver, 8.7 my video flick with compiz enable, in 8.4 this didn't happen.

Well good luck with this to all of you out there, another month another deception

[bridgman]

Dropknee, I can't think of any changes between 8.4 and 8.7 which would *cause* video flickering under Compiz. Are you sure it's not a case of different Compiz settings, eg you had "don't redirect full screen" enabled when you were running 8.4 ?

[Dropknee]

Dropknee, I can't think of any changes between 8.4 and 8.7 which would *cause* video flickering under Compiz. Are you sure it's not a case of different Compiz settings, eg you had "don't redirect full screen" enabled when you were running 8.4 ?

I didn't change anything Compiz, but this is my experience with the new drivers, a very big disappointment, but well.........

[bridgman]

BTW my main surprise is that you were *not* getting flickering with Compiz and the 8.4 drivers uunless you were running fullscreen and had the "don't redirect fullscreen" option selected.

[Dropknee]

BTW my main surprise is that you were *not* getting flickering with Compiz and the 8.4 drivers uunless you were running fullscreen and had the "don't redirect fullscreen" option selected.

Yes I have this option selected in Compiz, and video flick in 8.7 and not in 8.4 but forget about it, my main reason to turn back to 8.4 is the Wine bug