Fedora 7 ATI/AMD fglrx Discussion

[Michael]

Well, first off, see: http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=224

:( More information to come later in the week.

[d2kx]

Interesting that you want to use Ubuntu. I always thought what things on Fedora are better. Yum is slower, non-free harder. It has real software updates! (I use Sidux based on Debian/sid with KDE)

I don't know what you mean with Fedora R2. I hope that these issues with Fedora are not Xorg related... I want proper, non-hacked Xorg Server 1.3 Support!

[Michael]

I don't know what you mean with Fedora R2. I hope that these issues with Fedora are not Xorg related... I want proper, non-hacked Xorg Server 1.3 Support!

They are not X.Org related and I will explain more in the very near future ;)

[glussier]

Are you trying to say that you are going to drop Fedora in favor of Ubuntu just because AMD can't get their act together? Before I drop Fedora I'll drop AMD/ATI and rely on Intel and nvidia.

Seems to me that, lately, AMD can't do nothing right. Look at their 2000 series graphic cards, which for most of it is vaporware. Look at Barcelona, lots of talk and not much to show.

[Michael]

Are you trying to say that you are going to drop Fedora in favor of Ubuntu just because AMD can't get their act together? Before I drop Fedora I'll drop AMD/ATI and rely on Intel and nvidia.

Seems to me that, lately, AMD can't do nothing right. Look at their 2000 series graphic cards, which for most of it is vaporware. Look at Barcelona, lots of talk and not much to show.

No no, not at all. I had basically combined two different topics into one post. Even when I do switch to Ubuntu on my main system I will still gladly maintain the Fedora packaging scripts for AMD and of course Fedora will still be used at Phoronix and everything like that. I was just mentioning a personal switch.

[danielpugh]

i tried feisty and was mildly impressed. fedora still wins out IMHO mainly in the details. much better networking/tools (samba/ldap/gui tools), and other little glitches like bugs/not using lvm. i was pretty impressed with ubuntu as a simple start for basic users. I was forced to move back to fedora test 4 now rc2.

ill have another look with ubuntu 8 - nice to see they are going to enable compiz by default for certain cards - each to their own etc, and looking pretty exciting for the fute...

more relevantly my question: Im not enormously technical, but from what you say ati are about to release a version of drivers at the same time as fedora 7 but have incorporated in some way a bug that makes it unuseable for the same... but ... that it will work with older versions e.g. fc6?

[partha]

Well, first off, see: http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=224

:( More information to come later in the week.

Michael,

See my review of F7 Test 4 on my website (www.partha.com). I have stated there that fglrx will not work with the current version of xorg due to the numbering scheme and therefore a version mismatch. are you saying that there are new drivers that will?

Thanks,
Partha

[Michael]

The numbering scheme is no longer the problem... there is a new problem with fglrx and Fedora 7. It's mentioned in an upcoming Phoronix article and I will elaborate on it more in the forums once permitted.

[Michael]

Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. WIth AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem, the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7, aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original is renamed). If you manually update your xorg.conf and then restart X, fglrx will fail to load and you'll find a backtrace in your Xorg.0.log. So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7 just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information. This issue with 8.37 should not cause problems with Fedora Core 6 or previous versions.

[xunilos]

Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. WIth AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem, the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7, aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original is renamed). If you manually update your xorg.conf and then restart X, fglrx will fail to load and you'll find a backtrace in your Xorg.0.log. So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7 just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information. This issue with 8.37 should not cause problems with Fedora Core 6 or previous versions.

And here I sit with an X1300 in my Dell, with two 24" LCDs connected to it, unable to use any of it, because I foolishly installed Fedora 7. *sigh* Guess it's time to downgrade.

[fdiv_bug]

So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7 just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information.

First off, thanks for all the information and hard work you do here!

Can you tell us whether or not we're going to have to wait another month for functional drivers under F7, or is there going to be an interim fix?

Thanks,
`bug

[Michael]

First off, thanks for all the information and hard work you do here!

Can you tell us whether or not we're going to have to wait another month for functional drivers under F7, or is there going to be an interim fix?

Thanks,
`bug

More than likely you'll need to wait until 8.38.

[lose_the_grimm]

Thanks for the help! It's nice too know I'm not insane...

Though, I am having trouble getting anything more then 800x600. I wouldn't think this would be problem? I too am running a Radeon X1300 in a Dell.

Am I stuck with either 800x600 with Fedora 7 or just torrent FC6 and use that until ATI releases 8.38?

Thanks
Scott

[d2kx]

How did you install the driver, lose_the_grimm, that it works?

Go to display and choose another monitor, like LCD 1280x1024 and restart X. Then you should be able to set the resolution.

[lose_the_grimm]

How did you install the driver, lose_the_grimm, that it works?

Go to display and choose another monitor, like LCD 1280x1024 and restart X. Then you should be able to set the resolution.

It loaded X right out of the box, at 800x600. Though if I choose the correct profile for the LCD monitor (which was in there to my surprise) or if I choose any other monitor larger then 800x600 X won't start. The monitor complains about it being out of range.

It's definitely the X1300 though, I popped in a nvidia 7600GT and it worked without any issue what-so-ever.

I'm thinking if ATI/AMD doesn't start cooperating with the OSS community I'm going to stop buying ATI Video cards, and AMD processors altogether.

Scott

[Michael]

It loaded X right out of the box, at 800x600. Though if I choose the correct profile for the LCD monitor (which was in there to my surprise) or if I choose any other monitor larger then 800x600 X won't start. The monitor complains about it being out of range.

It's definitely the X1300 though, I popped in a nvidia 7600GT and it worked without any issue what-so-ever.

I'm thinking if ATI/AMD doesn't start cooperating with the OSS community I'm going to stop buying ATI Video cards, and AMD processors altogether.

Scott

So you're just using the vesa driver and not fglrx...

[lose_the_grimm]

So you're just using the vesa driver and not fglrx...

Affirmative.

Sorry I should have been more clear. That is indeed with the vesa driver.
With fglrx chosen X also refuses to boot.

Scott

[giiper]

This can be a litle stupid idea but, anyone tryed some old drivers to see if thet are working with F7!?! the last one can be incompatible but the old one's can work....

[Michael]

This can be a litle stupid idea but, anyone tryed some old drivers to see if thet are working with F7!?! the last one can be incompatible but the old one's can work....

Previous versions didn't work with X server 1.3 without hack.

[giiper]

with hack they should work, that can solve our problem until ati realease the new drivers! Ati will take a month to realeased the new drivers...

[giiper]

For what i see in your page michael you can put 8.35 drivers working in F7, am i right?

[Michael]

For what i see in your page michael you can put 8.35 drivers working in F7, am i right?

Last I tried with the hack it didn't work for Fedora 7 (though it bypassed the X 1.3 check).

[giiper]

any idea why F7 is so incompatible with fglrx?

[Michael]

any idea why F7 is so incompatible with fglrx?

The problem lies inside the fglrx blob. Aticonfig for 8.38 will work and hopefully the fglrx_drv.so will be fixed in time as well.

[giiper]

but the 8.38 driver will take a while to ge tout, i'm just searching for a temporary solution.

[giiper]

is there any driver that works with fedora 7 that enables 3d, for ati?

[Michael]

is there any driver that works with fedora 7 that enables 3d, for ati?

The open-source Radeon driver, but that will not work with the R500 X1000 series.

[giiper]

with the x2300? will work? where can i download it?

[Michael]

with the x2300? will work? where can i download it?

There is no Linux driver -- either fglrx or Radeon -- that supports the Radeon HD 2000 R600 series. You'll need to wait for that support as well, which should be soon.

[giiper]

ok! i buy the best board for nothing! irony! thaks for all

[giiper]

they sell a board but they dont have the drivers! :(

[Raven3x7]

whats an x2300? theres hd2400/2600/2900 and only the hd2900 have been released. i'm guessing support for those will come in the next couple of months. Maybe you meant x1300?

[Michael]

There's the Mobility Radeon HD 2300, which he probably means.

[giiper]

No, i mean what i say, there is a x2300, ati mobility radeon x2300, http://ati.amd.com/buy/promotions/asusa8jr/index.html
but no drivers for linux anyway

[Raven3x7]

I just checked and there is a mobility HD2300 but its a rebranded X1000 series gpu so it should work with fglrx in theory

[giiper]

is not HD2300 is x2300, at least mine is x2300 the site is in my preview post

[Raven3x7]

Its the same thing. I guess they call x2300 to differentiate it from the R600 based GPUs. Still there should be support for this gpu in fglrx.

[giiper]

ok ok
i hope so!

[amwriter]

Hi guys. I just joined phoronix tonight - I've been watching the thread(s) (and waiting) for the fglrx support in F7.

I've been seeing a lot of: "You're just going to have to wait..." type responses like to wait 'till 8.38 or to use the vesa drivers or that it'll be due "sometime" in June.

Now, I can understand that these things take time, but there are probably lots of folks (including myself) who rushed and downloaded F7 Final as soon as they could get their hands on it. Some (or all) of us are trying to decide whether to wipe and go back, wipe and go to a different distro, or whether to just wait 'till the "sometime in June". Or else, go out and buy a compatible video card from another vendor.

Any information for an ETA on the next driver release would be much appreciated - as well as serve to calm some of the unrest over the driver issue.

Thank you for your time,

Harry

[Michael]

It will ideally be pushed out towards the middle of the month and won't face multiple delays again... ideally.

[amwriter]

It will ideally be pushed out towards the middle of the month and won't face multiple delays again... ideally.

Okay. Thank you for the reply, Michael.

[danielpugh]

hi michael,

being on the beta program, have you had a copy of the next release, and if so does if fix the f7 problems?

thanks in advance,

Dan

[Michael]

hi michael,

being on the beta program, have you had a copy of the next release, and if so does if fix the f7 problems?

thanks in advance,

Dan

While I am bound by NDA regarding the specifics for upcoming driver releases, I have yet to see an AMD fglrx release that fully works with Fedora 7.

[khakhovich]

Fellas, on one hand i would agreee with you aqusing Phoronix and AMD/ATI.
but to the contrast:
- I have been using Linux for 8 years now.
- Used Redhat,Slackware,Knoppix,Debian and Fedora from FC1

Would you like me to aquse Intel and ATI becuase it simply does not run in ANY mode on my Lenovo laptop! :) how do you like that? even the init mode 3 it does hang! can you belive that?
FC3-6 worked mostly with no problem but did required some modifications and tweaks. FC7 - simply does not work. Deal with it. and i would rather jump on FC developers for releasing OS that absolutelly does not work in a simple console mode, i mean common at least make some nice Docs prior releaseing OS that has info: this is changed you must play with this is you havgin problems and etc.

Example: i boot in level 3, unplug network cord, plug it back into jack - and the laptop booted in FC7 - frozen.

and don't start - that my hardware is f***ed - it's not. :)

so the answer - don't jump on one person - when it is actually a lot more involved. forget at the moment about ATI driver and FC7 - FC7 is broken at the moment (as always when new Fedore come out) and no real documentation there that can help quickly narrow the problem.

Have fun.

[Xipeos]

Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. WIth AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem, the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7, aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original is renamed)(...)

And from my own problem:

I now noticed that I have the same problem with aticonfig IF the xserver is running. For example I do
Code:

# aticonfig --enable-monitor=crt1
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx-0

and then it "freezes" the same way that amdcccle does, and strace shows the same (or similar?) "Resource temporarily unvailable" error.

Maybe the two problems are related (ie. not fedora specific). If by "crash" you mean "freeze" then it could very well be the same problem. So then:
They are not X.Org related and I will explain more in the very near future
How near is the very near future? :D

[Michael]

And from my own problem:



Maybe the two problems are related (ie. not fedora specific). If by "crash" you mean "freeze" the it could very well be the same problem. So then:

How near is the very near future? :D

Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. WIth AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem, the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7, aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original is renamed). If you manually update your xorg.conf and then restart X, fglrx will fail to load and you'll find a backtrace in your Xorg.0.log. So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7 just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information. This issue with 8.37 should not cause problems with Fedora Core 6 or previous versions.

I just couldn't share prior to the driver release that they would have the X 1.3 fix in the release.

These problems are still under investigation and as of yet they aren't fixed for 8.38 (except for aticonfig being fixed).

[danielpugh]

thanks michael,

bugs take time to fix, so perfectly understandable. Particularly with new release. similar problems affecting me with open source drivers (iwlwifi - although git shows that the latest release fixes more problems)/

has ati/amd considered supporting something similar in parallel? i realise this is a fairly frequent question - but starting a community driven effort may gain ati/amd some kudos kick-start a long term solution (which is really needed for linux as an os) and help them by allowing them to eventually overcome the issues that prevent them releasing their own open source drivers (3rd party licensing by all accounts).

what are your thoughts on this (i noticed you mentioned something about ati/nouveau a while back but its hard to find info on the net), and in light of the recent ati/amd integration?
what do the developers ati think on this matter (obviously nda's may apply etc etc) as it strikes me they get a fair amount of flack which is unwarranted.

sorry if all this has been asked before

[danielpugh]

almost as i wrote above ... an article by nvidia director of unix software talking about dual(open-source & proprietary) driver development/support

http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/andy-ritger-nvidia?page=1

[racoco]

Well, first off, see: http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=224

:( More information to come later in the week.

I cannot get dual-head to work with the X1300 on FC-7. Do you believe this may also be fixed by the hopefully soon to be release updated ati-fglrx driver?

in brief, altho i configured (thru the sytem utilities Monitor gui) for dual-head, i in fact simply get duplication instead (each of the two monitors displays exactly the same and no 'drag' to the other screen is possible.

One detail: my x1300 video card has exactly 1 video out port. the Montor cfg gui seems to be geared towards TWO video cards. could this be part of the problem?

any pointers to additional info re: dual head for the x1300 will be greatly appreciated.

tx,

- racoco

[Michael]

I cannot get dual-head to work with the X1300 on FC-7. Do you believe this may also be fixed by the hopefully soon to be release updated ati-fglrx driver?

in brief, altho i configured (thru the sytem utilities Monitor gui) for dual-head, i in fact simply get duplication instead (each of the two monitors displays exactly the same and no 'drag' to the other screen is possible.

One detail: my x1300 video card has exactly 1 video out port. the Montor cfg gui seems to be geared towards TWO video cards. could this be part of the problem?

any pointers to additional info re: dual head for the x1300 will be greatly appreciated.

tx,

- racoco

Right now you are using the vesa driver with your X1300. Once you get the fglrx driver working, you can enable dual head through aticonfig.

[amwriter]

Guys,

Just saw this on the fedoraforums:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156961

Easy way to downgrade to xorg 1.2.

I have fglrx 8.37.6 installed along with it. It is working for me on a 64bit install.

(Just remember to add the excludes to yum and to comment them out when the next version of fglrx is up and out).

Good Luck.

[Corlija]

Okay, here's the scoop on Fedora 7. WIth AMD fixing the X 1.3 problem, the drivers will build. However, when you install the RPMs for Fedora 7, aticonfig will crash and will remove your xorg.conf (though the original is renamed). If you manually update your xorg.conf and then restart X, fglrx will fail to load and you'll find a backtrace in your Xorg.0.log. So if you need the fglrx drivers to survive, don't upgrade to Fedora 7 just yet. Stay tuned to the forums for more information. This issue with 8.37 should not cause problems with Fedora Core 6 or previous versions.

Sorz 2 quote again, but it took me like two days to find this thread :/ Thanks! xD Google query used:

default fedora 7 xorg.conf

[dajomas]

Guys,

Just saw this on the fedoraforums:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=156961

Easy way to downgrade to xorg 1.2.

I have fglrx 8.37.6 installed along with it. It is working for me on a 64bit install.

(Just remember to add the excludes to yum and to comment them out when the next version of fglrx is up and out).

Good Luck.

Great suggestion. I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 with an X1400 card and I had the problem when I installed F7. I followed the suggestions in the mentioned thread and wonder of wonders, it works!!! (32 bit. xorg 1.2 and fglrx 8.37.6)

Greetinx
Johan.

[jpeaks]

I notice that we now have 8.38.6 available and it was suggested that 8.38 would work with Xorg 7.3, has anyone tried this? Livna don't have it in their packages yet and I'm not experienced enough to feel comfortable experimenting so I am still waiting for others to tell me it works :D

[d2kx]

As stated in the other threads, it STILL doesn't work. The Xorg Xserver 1.2 trick doesn't work any more, at least for me (some new depency problems).

[jpeaks]

k thx for the info

I haven't checked other threads actually, this one was the one linked to from the ATI wiki so thats how I got here. I'll stick with 8.37.6 then cos thats working fine with Xorg 7.2 for me.

[yoda2031]

I have a RADEON X600 (in a dell 9150), and here's my ubuntu/fedora situation:

Got ubuntu 7.04 Feisty fresh from the oven, it tasted gooood - my previous linux experience had largely been with ubuntu, just because it was my pot-luck first distro.
Ubuntu 6.06 didn't work with this setup, the X-server would just crash out, and no matter how much I trauled the internet, no distributions worked. So I stuck with winblows for a few more months
7.04 was released, I rolled with it - it worked! I was ecstatic, and hurried to test the new "desktop effects" - which didn't work.
Compiz failed on a composite extension issue, and after much tweaking - the fglrx driver doesn't support beryl or compiz properly in ubuntu. Damn.
So, what now? Oh look, moonshine. I drank, and it helped soothe me, as the included display driver worked with beryl! I was amazed by beryl's cool effects, then installed GTA:SA to see if it worked better than ubuntu! Wouldn't install (unlike ubuntu) so I ran it from my (unmounted by default, for some reason) ubuntu partition - it did more than on ubuntu - a fade-to-white screen, then freezes. FPS was less than 3.
SO. I install FGLRX - which doesn't work, aticonfig crashes out. So I hotfix fglrx and get it running.
To my dismay, not only did this make a train-wreck out of beryl, but it also didn't make an ounce of difference to the libGL problem (I checked terminal output from gta:sa post-fglrx install) in gta:sa!
It may have been a different error before fglrx, but the same fade-to-white screen, same framerate and freeze point suggest it's the same bug.
GTA:SA isn't important.
Beryl isn't important.
But it'd be nice if -one- of them worked.
So what'd I do? Tried uninstalling fglrx!
Fail.
So I tried replacing xorg.conf with the backup.
Success! It runs with the mesa openGL drivers now.
But problem, still no beryl and no gta:sa.
So I pondered, and I read a lot of internet garbage.
Finally, I struck upon an idea.
Reinstall the fglrx driver from the .run file, and check fglrxinfo, see if it's actually using the right drivers.
So, here goes, ./ati-driver-installer-8.38.7.x86.x86_64.run...
GUI installs.
Done.
Ok then, aticonfig.
Using blah blah...
Found uninitialized people...
Slapping them for being uninitialized...
Ok, so that output is ordinary.
Time for good ol' Ctrl+Alt+Backspace...
Oh gawd!!! NO X-SERVER!!!
Ok ok ok run the auto config script, do what you like just give me my desktop back!
Oh damn, it rewrote xorg.conf...
So now what?
Ok aticonfig this xorg.conf
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
Same issue...
Can anyone, and I mean -anyone- tell me:
a) why I wrote a stupidly long post on some forum I've never been on before about it
b) how annoying it is that random anons do that to respectable forums
c) how the heck I get my fglrx driver back
and d) why doesn't beryl work any more, if it's rolled back to the driver that supported it in the first place?

Yeesh, sorry about the long post but... it was a harrowing 2 days trying to show linux off to friends/family, most of whom are strong winblows advocates because of "ease-of-use", but believe me, these teething troubles are nothing to what I had in winblows, and these are just superficial things like beryl! Not mission-critical apps like.. oh, I don't know, MYSQL, BY ANY CHANCE?!!! stupid my-crow-is-soft... why don't they just buy a wooden bird anyway? idiots!

[Nine]

Hi,
i was able to make FC7 Rpm's of the newly ati driver on my Fedora 7
Installation (Lenovo/IBM T43 with X300) but the X-Server still crashes with segfault.

In my linux career with nvidia i never had such problems with opengl gfx support as i have with ati cards.

Since the beginning, the ati driver never had the quality, as the nvidia driver under linux. The windows solution i wan't discuss here.

Poorly the laptop is a laptop owned by the firm for which i am working for, i personally will not by a computer with an ati gfx card inside.

Why? Look at the linux driver and you have the answer.

CU
Nine
not 9(Never trust a hippy)

[Binford]

My FC6 box had been a real workhorse, until I upgraded to F7 final and found I no longer have X working...

I have tried the solution from Fedora Forum here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=794362&postcount=2, to no avail. I had been makinf do, since I was under the impression this latest ATI driver would fix this. At this point, I'd settle for ANY graphical display.

Can someone point me to any kinda howto to getting up any kinda X desktop with F7 and a Athlon XP 3200, 9800 XT radeon, 1GB RAM, etc... nothing fancy that has worked FINE for years!

/var/log/Xorg.setup.log has this error:
(++) Log file: "/dev/null", Time: Wed Jul 4 00:08:33 2007
(++) Using config file: "/tmp/tmpmrWjUdxorg.config"
/usr/bin/Xorg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so: undefined symbol: drmSetServerInfo

What else do you need to know?

Thamnks in advance for any help....

[amwriter]

...since I was under the impression this latest ATI driver would fix this....

Join the club, dude.

[ShadowHarlequin]

yeah i have a mobility radeon x1300 and im guessing this STILL hasent been fixed?

running in vesa isnt ideal on a widescreen with a normal resolution but it has to do at the moment

i heard somewhere to use the open source ati drivers but they dont work either right?

(also whats the status with that down grade, i did install a couple of updates but i dont know if thatll affect downgrading xorg etc)

has anyone got a blog or something set up to maybe post the progress of a fix or solution?

[Michael]

yeah i have a mobility radeon x1300 and im guessing this STILL hasent been fixed?

running in vesa isnt ideal on a widescreen with a normal resolution but it has to do at the moment

i heard somewhere to use the open source ati drivers but they dont work either right?

(also whats the status with that down grade, i did install a couple of updates but i dont know if thatll affect downgrading xorg etc)

has anyone got a blog or something set up to maybe post the progress of a fix or solution?

Phoronix and the Phoronix Forums will be the first place to tell you the status of Fedora 7 and fglrx, I can guarantee that.

The Open-Source Avivo driver is slower than VESA right now but it does support wide screen resolutions.

If you want to downgrade the X server now, you can upgrade later or you can just hold it out a bit longer before the new driver ;)

[ShadowHarlequin]

Phoronix and the Phoronix Forums will be the first place to tell you the status of Fedora 7 and fglrx, I can guarantee that.

The Open-Source Avivo driver is slower than VESA right now but it does support wide screen resolutions.

If you want to downgrade the X server now, you can upgrade later or you can just hold it out a bit longer before the new driver ;)

thanks for that prompt reply ;)
yeah i MIGHT try downgrading <follow the guide posted earlier exactly right?>

in all fairness i hadnt had my card working in F6 either but im planning on using F7 alot more and learn some java in it or soemthing

updates will be posted as a new topic?

[Michael]

thanks for that prompt reply ;)
yeah i MIGHT try downgrading <follow the guide posted earlier exactly right?>

in all fairness i hadnt had my card working in F6 either but im planning on using F7 alot more and learn some java in it or soemthing

updates will be posted as a new topic?

Updates will be posted in this thread as well as new threads. You can subscribe to our forums or Phoronix.com RSS feeds so you are instantly notified.

[yoshi314]

michael sometimes feels like an ad-bot, you know.

[d2kx]

Hey, would have you expected that fglrx runs on my...

Xorg Server 1.3 & Kernel 2.6.22 Debian/sid (sidux) system without any fixed needed? :)

[yoshi314]

not even the kernel patch?

i'm going 2.6.22 in a couple of hours, when i'm back from work.

[Michael]

Linux 2.6.22 with the 8.38 will probably run into some issues.... However, now that the new kernel is officially out, AMD will attempt to support it prompty :D

[yoshi314]

Linux 2.6.22 with the 8.38 will probably run into some issues.... However, now that the new kernel is officially out, AMD will attempt to support it prompty :D

did you pick an "attempt" word on purpose? or am i the only one who gets suspicious when reading that amd is attempting to do something instead of actually doing it.

[Michael]

did you pick an "attempt" word on purpose? or am i the only one who gets suspicious when reading that amd is attempting to do something instead of actually doing it.

If there is not Linux 2.6.22 support in the mainstream firegl_public code, there should be a patch for the Fedora 7 packaging scripts. Though what would be the use of a 2.6.22 patch if there is no X server 1.3 for Fedora 7 support? :D

[d2kx]

Funny that Fedora-lover Michael can laugh about AMDs issues about Fedora :)

No, 2.6.22 & fglrx 8.38.7 run without any patches on my sidux installation with Xorg Server 1.3.

The common issues like crash-on-console switch (which was fixed in 8.36 and then came back) are still there but I am not experiencing any new ones.

If there is a need for a 2.6.22 patch, it should come by 8.40, I guess it's too late for 8.39.

[yoshi314]

wow, works with no patches on 2.6.22-gentoo kernel.

i don't have any crashes, except for standard issues (xvideo, performance).

[d2kx]

I can say that there is a very high chance that 8.39 gets released by tomorrow. I am very sure it will.

#edit: Okay I am not 100% percent sure but it seems that the Windows driver already got the WHQL certificate since one week and seems ready. We'll see.

[Michael]

Upgrade to 8.39.4 for Fedora 7 support -- http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4235

If you run into any other Fedora issues, please create a new thread.