Problems of ATI driver 8.31.5 from livna repo

[foxtseng]

Hi,

Is there anyone had the same porblem with me?
When I updated the fglrx from 8.29.6-livna to 8.31.5-livna today, the OpenGL vendor became Mesa again. The vendor was ATI before.

Then, I removed all the fglrx packages, and reinstall them. The same.

These are the packages I installed.
kmod-fglrx.i686 8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2849 installed
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 8.31.5-1.lvn6 installed
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-devel.i386 8.31.5-1.lvn6 installed

I had extension section in my xorg.conf,
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# tail -4 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
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And I still got the following warnings,
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# grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default.
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc7000000,0xfe0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc6000000,0x1fe0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc4000000,0x3fe0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc0000000,0x7fe0000)
(WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled.
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
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# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
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I used got this warnings as well, but when I appended the composite="disable", the warning diappeared. But not for this time. Could anyone give me a hint? Thanks.

[foxtseng]

And I cannot restore back to the old driver 8.29.6
Or how can I do that?

[Michael]

Not using Livna it works well. I haven't seen any other users with Livna run into this problem yet.

[foxtseng]

Without using livna's rpm, I can't even compile the ATI's official driver. It always complained missing qt-3.3 lib files, which I believe were installed completely. I installed 8.29.6 from livna, and that works after lots of strugglings. But the same procedures can't make the 8.31.5 work anymore. :-(


Not using Livna it works well. I haven't seen any other users with Livna run into this problem yet.

[foxtseng]

I found the following status in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(After updated to driver 8.31.5)
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(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.29.6
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Sep 19 2006
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(WW) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version does *not* match driver.
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So, it seems that for some reason, the old kernel module is still used and cause the problem. Could anyone point out that how can I assign a specific kernel module? Or it is because livna released a wrong kmod-fglrx.i686 ?

Without using livna's rpm, I can't even compile the ATI's official driver. It always complained missing qt-3.3 lib files, which I believe were installed completely. I installed 8.29.6 from livna, and that works after lots of strugglings. But the same procedures can't make the 8.31.5 work anymore. :-(

[Michael]

It could be due to the Livna packaging. Otherwise try reinstalling the RPM again.

[foxtseng]

I almost can confirm that it is because Livna packaging. Since I successfully restored to 8.29.6 by downloading the old packages and install them locally.

yum localinstall these,
kmod-fglrx-8.29.6-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6.i686.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.29.6-1.lvn6.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-devel-8.29.6-1.lvn6.i386.rpm

And my video card works fine again. So, be careful to upgrade the 8.31.5 ati driver from Livna.

It could be due to the Livna packaging. Otherwise try reinstalling the RPM again.

[amenzix]

hey... even though you get the qt3.3 error you should still be able to generate the packages wiht the "--build-pkg" option. While you won't be able to install the fglrxcontrolpanel rpm, you should still be able to install the drivers&module. Maybe it'll work that way.

[Michael]

hey... even though you get the qt3.3 error you should still be able to generate the packages wiht the "--build-pkg" option. While you won't be able to install the fglrxcontrolpanel rpm, you should still be able to install the drivers&module. Maybe it'll work that way.

That would work, only if you remove the fireglcontrolpanel build code from the Fedora packaging scripts.

[amenzix]

I thought there was a separate rpm for fireglcontrolpanel and that you could simply not install that one. Sorry then. But then again, if it worked with livna rpm's, it might work with the generated rpm's as well. I'm just speculating, I'm not really sure about how the ATI installer works.

[Michael]

For Livna RPMs, last time I used them you had the option of installing the control panel or not. However, with the official AMD installer once you pass --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 that is the only option and it will execute the scripts to build all of the RPMs. The way to get the fireglcontrolpanel out of the build stack would be to comment out or eliminate the code in the packaging script.

[foxtseng]

I am not sure how to do this. You mean comment out some lines in the scripts attached before the binary code, or we have to extract out all the stuff first and then play with them?

For Livna RPMs, last time I used them you had the option of installing the control panel or not. However, with the official AMD installer once you pass --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 that is the only option and it will execute the scripts to build all of the RPMs. The way to get the fireglcontrolpanel out of the build stack would be to comment out or eliminate the code in the packaging script.

[Michael]

Run

./amd-driver-name.run --extract

Then in

fglrx-install/packages/Fedora

open ATI-fglrx.spec-tmpl and remove or comment:

%{_bindir}/fireglcontrolpanel

In ati-packager.sh open that up and remove or comment out:

if [ ! -x ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel ]; then
mkdir ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources
pushd ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources &> /dev/null
tar xzf ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/src/ati/fglrx_panel_sources.tgz
sed -i 's|^LIBQT_DYN = qt$|LIBQT_DYN = qt-mt|' Makefile
sed -i 's|STRIP = strip|STRIP = @echo strip is disabled for:|' Makefile
sed -i 's|BASENAME = fireglcontrol|BASENAME = fireglcontrolpanel|' Makefile
[ -n "$QTDIR" ] || . /etc/profile.d/qt.sh && make &> /dev/null
install -p -m 0755 fireglcontrolpanel ${TMP_RPM_BUILD_DIR}/usr/bin/fireglcontrolpanel
popd &> /dev/null
fi

and then that should probably be it. Then move back into the main fglrx-install folder and run

./ati-installer.sh 8.31.5 --buildpkg Fedora/FC6

and it should build without fireglcontrolpanel. If I recall correctly, those should be all of the fireglcontrolpanel references you need to remove. If it still gives you problems when building, just follow where it gives you the problem and then comment/remove those lines.

[foxtseng]

Sorry for my stupid mistake.

I did not remove the old module after upgrade. So, after a reboot and create a symbolic link to the right libGL.so.1.2, it works fine now.

Livna's fglrx 8.31.5 driver is okay.

Sorry for the confusion. Maybe the whole thread should be removed.

[Quang]

Hi every body!
I'm new user, (I've used Linux for 2 days) and I have a trouble with install ATI Drv. (Fedora Core 6 ( Zod ) 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. VGA ATI Radeon 9600 Pro)

[root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:8.31.5-1.2.6.18_1.2849.fc6 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: fglrx-kmod-common >= 8.31.5 for package: kmod-fglrx
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xorg-x11-drv-fglrx.i386 0:8.31.5-1.lvn6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: ati-x11-drv conflicts xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: ati-x11-drv conflicts with xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
How can I do???