AMD Catalyst 10.10 For Linux Officially Released

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 10.10 For Linux Officially Released

While users of Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" have had access to an early release of the Catalyst 10.10 Linux driver that AMD had sent over to Canonical in advance in order to provide X.Org Server 1.9 support, the rest of the Linux-using public now finally has access to the official Catalyst 10.10 build. Those that have already used Catalyst 10.10 in the Ubuntu Maverick release have been rather excited for its changes...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODcwNA

Installation went without a hitch. This does not resolve the "Catalyst Control Center" Information bug:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post10002704

I "think" this bug is purely cosmetic.

Frank

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by russofris

Installation went without a hitch. This does not resolve the "Catalyst Control Center" Information bug:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post10002704

I "think" this bug is purely cosmetic.

Frank

---

From a similar issue (can't really call it a problem) this is just some leftover files (in /etc/ati) from a previous driver version that do nothing more than report a version number.
To fix this, remove driver, empty out /etc/ati (or wherever ubuntu puts it) and install driver. Should be all good after that.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by russofris

Installation went without a hitch. This does not resolve the "Catalyst Control Center" Information bug:
I "think" this bug is purely cosmetic.

---

AFAIK if the 2D driver and openGL versions are correct everything is fine.

@mirv

you dont remove the driver, you stop kdm/gdm or whatever then you can delete the file without .default ending in /etc/ati and then you start kdm/gdm again.

This driver doesn't seem to work on Kubuntu 10.10:

Code:

---

sudo ./ati-driver-installer-10-10-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/maverick

---

This leaves a few *.deb packages. Installed all of them. Rebooted. Nothing happens; the system is still running the "radeon" driver.

What's wrong?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kano

@mirv

you dont remove the driver, you stop kdm/gdm or whatever then you can delete the file without .default ending in /etc/ati and then you start kdm/gdm again.

---

Ah, a better way, cheers!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by RealNC

This leaves a few *.deb packages. Installed all of them. Rebooted. Nothing happens; the system is still running the "radeon" driver. What's wrong?

---

Did you run aticonfig --initial -f

This driver works very well for me with Ubuntu 10.10 and an integrated HD4290. No black box issues, no workarounds.

The kaffeine interlace bug still exists, so avoid pressing "I" when Kaffeine is running.

I am running latest kernel 2.6.36.

ATI driver does not compile.

> cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
> ./make.sh


CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_acpi.o
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_agp.o
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:410: error: unknown field ‘ioctl’ specified in initializer
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:410: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_MapPageToPfn’:
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1636: warning: unused variable ‘bus_addr’
CC [M] /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.o
make[2]: *** [/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.c:51: warning: ‘struct tty_struct’ declared inside parameter list
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.c:51: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.c:60: warning: ‘struct tty_struct’ declared inside parameter list
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.c:67: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/2.6.x/kcl_debug.c:74: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Any clue?