AMD 8.42.3 Driver Released -- The Baby Is Born!

Installation worked flawless for me on Ubuntu Gutsy. Whitelisted fglrx in /usr/bin/compiz on line 54 (someone asked how to do it previously).

Performance is not really good. Worse than the opensource ati driver (like kirù said). Did I miss enabling some options in xorg.conf?

Greetings...

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Originally Posted by lucien

Installation worked flawless for me on Ubuntu Gutsy. Whitelisted fglrx in /usr/bin/compiz on line 54 (someone asked how to do it previously).

Performance is not really good. Worse than the opensource ati driver (like kirù said). Did I miss enabling some options in xorg.conf?

Greetings...

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What hardware are you using? What's your xorg.conf look like?

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* Installing fglrx module
* ati tree 'lib' -> 'lib32' on system
install: cannot stat `/var/tmp/paludis/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.42.3/work/arch/x86_64/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `/var/tmp/paludis/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.42.3/work/arch/x86_64/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so': No such file or directory
* ati tree 'lib64' -> 'lib64' on system
install: cannot stat `common/etc/ati/fglrxprofiles.csv': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `common/etc/ati/fglrxrc': No such file or directory

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arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now no apps are starting because of the libgl.s0.1.2 not being there... how could i fix this?! if i cannot fix it i cannot use the driver...
for me the driver can be called 8.42.3 the baby is born... dead!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad:

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Originally Posted by SteviOS

I need some help with Compiz.
I installed the new driver with

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sudo ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

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Then added (compiz)

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# Driver whitelist
WHITELIST="fglrx nvidia intel ati radeon i810"

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and (xorg.conf)

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Section "Module"
        Load                "glx"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

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I'm running Gutsy with ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. When I try to enable Compiz there's a white-screen.

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fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

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:confused::confused::confused:

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You've got Mesa there instead of ATI. You should be getting something similar to this:

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display: 0:0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technolgies Inc.
OpenGL rendered string: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6958 release

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Try installing it manually via method 2 found here:
(uninstall all previous instances of fglrx first, but don't reboot till you finish the manual install)

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

What kills me is that compiz-fusion is running at a usable speed -- just completely graphically corrupted.

Oh yeah, and et:qw crashed the X server after about 20 seconds into the game.

Wish I was more impressed, but...

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Originally Posted by Michael

That's a known issue on the part of the package maintainer for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. A new packaging script for Ubuntu is available and I'll see if I still have it in my inbox.

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I get the same error in Ubuntu Feisty... (so, clearly this is a general Ubuntu problem).

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Originally Posted by aoanla

I get the same error in Ubuntu Feisty... (so, clearly this is a general Ubuntu problem).

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Oops, yeah, didn't mean to say "Gutsy Gibbon" in my previous post.

Any clue which options I should activate in my "Xorg.conf" config file in order to enable Compiz via AIGLX? When running
compiz.real --indirect-rendering --replace I'm getting a message telling me that the composite extension is not enabled on my system.

Also, when I installed it (on Gutsy), it seems the package did not create a necessary symbolic link (ie. in /usr/lib libGL.so.1 was not found, but libGL.so.1.2 was, so I created a symbolic pointing from libGL.so.1 to libGL.so.1.2 and it did the trick).

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Originally Posted by givemesugarr

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now no apps are starting because of the libgl.s0.1.2 not being there... how could i fix this?! if i cannot fix it i cannot use the driver...
for me the driver can be called 8.42.3 the baby is born... dead!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad:

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https://www.inullable.com/svn/overla...s/ati-drivers/

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EDIT: If you have the Composite extension disabled in your xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, make sure you re-enable it.

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ok, thanks for the composite extension tip, i didn't read the post first.