AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta improvements?

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Originally Posted by eronquillo

Hi, I installed the catalyst 12.6 beta drivers on my linux mint 13 maya system, using a radeon 7750 with hdmi, dvi-i and display port. extending the workspace to the hdmi and dvi works fine, but the monitor with the display port (using a display port to dvi adaptor) is not receiving a signal from the card. When I boot and post, I can see the bios bootup, but then goes black while the other two monitors are able to display the linux mint workspace. I'll look further.

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Send bugreport: http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D20B2F3EAC

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Originally Posted by RussianNeuroMancer

That why you need to put valid signature follow instruction.

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For me it was a simple matter of copying the control and signature files from the 12.4 release to /etc/ati. Even easier than following the instructions to the letter. :cool:

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Originally Posted by rherbert57

copying the control and signature files from the 12.4 release to /etc/ati

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Or download it. Every way is working anyway.

I just want to say after almost a week, that they finally fixed "ASIC hang happened" which in my case was causing hangs during going sleep (not wakeup - it always worked). I'm using HD 5770 on Debian Sid and I'm so happy with full working sleep/wakeup after almost a year of struggle with that.

Any previsions for a new beta driver with Debian amd64 xorg 1.12 support?

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Originally Posted by Massa

Hi xgt001,

It's working for me under Fedora 17 64-bit with Xorg 1.12 and kernel 3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64.

It's also quite snappier on my AMD E-350, very happy with this release so far.

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Just don't update to the 3.4.0-1 kernel and you'll be fine. Otherwise it's either go back to 3.3.7-1 or use Gallium. That was my mistake and kmod-catalyst is taking a while.

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Originally Posted by vitorgatti

Didn't work. I can't remove the watermark saying "AMD Testing use only".
It seems that there is no signature inside the driver install script.

Anybody managed to remove/hide it?

Thanks

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What's your distro?

I use Fedora 17 GNOME 64-bit on Kernel 3.3.7.

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

Save as fixwatermark.sh
chmod +x to make it executable
su -c 'sh ./fixwatermark.sh'

then log out and back in.

That worked for me.

Again, this is on kernel 3.3.7 for Fedora 17 64-bit.

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Originally Posted by ElderSnake

Please tell me they have/will be fixing suspend/resume...

Driving me nuts on my Fusion powered netbook. fglrx does everything better than the open source driver (power management and HD video playback etc) EXCEPT I cant suspend the machine without it coming back up with a blank screen. very frustrating.

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Same here, but that is with all distros for me.
My hardware is A6-3400M x4 1.2~2.4 (scaled) with 6 GB RAM, 600 HDD, Radeon HD 6520G.

using the beta on my 7850 with the watermark patch

performance is about the same, but it does fix a texture rendering problem in vdrift
also not compatible with kernel 3.4.x but there might be hacks for that too ...

Fianally a driver that doesn't crash my laptop (E350, HD6310) on suspend/resume! But it took AMD over a year to fix this bug and that's really unacceptable. I had a crash with serious graphic corruption though when changing the backligt so it's not stable enough yet but I'm looking forward to the final version!