AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support

[shv1]

How about video flickering under compiz ?

[BlackStar]

- Compiz alpha blur STILL does not work... C'mon focus blur works just fine, how hard can it be to fix alpha blurring?

Actually, this should be trivial to fix if it was a simple shader incompatibility. However, for some reason only the plugin authors know, they decided to assemble the shader piece by piece through C code (strcpy essentially). The code would be trivial to fix if they followed standard shader techniques (e.g. a large shader string modified through conditional compilation), but as things stand the blur plugin is so convoluted it's next to impossible to modify, much less fix.

Edit: no video flickering here with either 9.7 or 9.8 (4850). Video is not vsynced, either.

[NeoBrain]

Actually, this should be trivial to fix if it was a simple shader incompatibility. However, for some reason only the plugin authors know, they decided to assemble the shader piece by piece through C code (strcpy essentially). The code would be trivial to fix if they followed standard shader techniques (e.g. a large shader string modified through conditional compilation), but as things stand the blur plugin is so convoluted it's next to impossible to modify, much less fix.

Oh, okay... Let's hope Compiz 0.9 is doing a better job then

[yoshi314]

just looking at issues reported in this whole thread makes me wonder whatare fglrx devs actually doing.

i've stopped using fglrx around 8.35 in 2007 and i'm interested in whether there was at least one solid fglrx/catalyst release since then.

[blindfrog]

Haha great it actually works with Fedora 11 for a 5 SECONDS until it freezes the whole system! Brilliant!

[energyman]

Does it already work well with preemptive kernel? (not voluntary) Preemptive RCU? And big kernel lock?

??? wtf?

emmm... bkl is in linux since it can do smp. So at least 2.0. <Preemptive kernel? of course! for ages.

[cheung]

How about video flickering under compiz ?

I still see video tear even without compiz.

system:debian sid
linux kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64
ATI HD4350.

What can I do?

[energyman]

don't use xv?

[Technojunkie]

ssh'ing into my F11 box and attempting to install 9.8 from the console proved more enlightening:

Installation complete!

*** glibc detected *** ./setup.data/bin/x86_64/setup: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x00000000018314b0 ***

======= Backtrace: =========

/lib64/libc.so.6[0x3683c75a96]

./setup.data/bin/x86_64/setup[0x40a6b5]

./setup.data/bin/x86_64/setup[0x4128fb]

/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x3683c1ea2d]

./setup.data/bin/x86_64/setup[0x40382a]

======= Memory map: ========

00400000-004bc000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 826582                             /root/fglrx-install.Cgo5FZ/setup.data/b

in/x86_64/setup

005bb000-005c3000 rw-p 000bb000 08:02 826582                             /root/fglrx-install.Cgo5FZ/setup.data/b

in/x86_64/setup

005c3000-005fc000 rw-p 005c3000 00:00 0

0178b000-01847000 rw-p 0178b000 00:00 0                                  [heap]

3683800000-368381f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996628                        /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so

3683a1e000-3683a1f000 r--p 0001e000 08:02 1996628                        /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so

3683a1f000-3683a20000 rw-p 0001f000 08:02 1996628                        /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so

3683c00000-3683d64000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996749                        /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so

3683d64000-3683f64000 ---p 00164000 08:02 1996749                        /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so

3683f64000-3683f68000 r--p 00164000 08:02 1996749                        /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so

3683f68000-3683f69000 rw-p 00168000 08:02 1996749                        /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so

3683f69000-3683f6e000 rw-p 3683f69000 00:00 0

3684000000-3684082000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996752                        /lib64/libm-2.10.1.so

3684082000-3684282000 ---p 00082000 08:02 1996752                        /lib64/libm-2.10.1.so

3684282000-3684283000 r--p 00082000 08:02 1996752                        /lib64/libm-2.10.1.so

3684283000-3684284000 rw-p 00083000 08:02 1996752                        /lib64/libm-2.10.1.so

3684400000-3684402000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996755                        /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so

3684402000-3684602000 ---p 00002000 08:02 1996755                        /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so

3684602000-3684603000 r--p 00002000 08:02 1996755                        /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so

3684603000-3684604000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 1996755                        /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so

3689000000-3689019000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996753                        /lib64/libgcc_s-4.4.0-20090506.so.1

3689019000-3689219000 ---p 00019000 08:02 1996753                        /lib64/libgcc_s-4.4.0-20090506.so.1

3689219000-368921a000 rw-p 00019000 08:02 1996753                        /lib64/libgcc_s-4.4.0-20090506.so.1

3693a00000-3693a02000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1430806                        /lib64/libutil-2.10.1.so

3693a02000-3693c01000 ---p 00002000 08:02 1430806                        /lib64/libutil-2.10.1.so

3693c01000-3693c02000 r--p 00001000 08:02 1430806                        /lib64/libutil-2.10.1.so

3693c02000-3693c03000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 1430806                        /lib64/libutil-2.10.1.so

7f41cae08000-7f41cae14000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1996729                    /lib64/libnss_files-2.10.1.so

7f41cae14000-7f41cb013000 ---p 0000c000 08:02 1996729                    /lib64/libnss_files-2.10.1.so

7f41cb013000-7f41cb014000 r--p 0000b000 08:02 1996729                    /lib64/libnss_files-2.10.1.so

7f41cb014000-7f41cb015000 rw-p 0000c000 08:02 1996729                    /lib64/libnss_files-2.10.1.so

7f41cb034000-7f41cb03b000 r--s 00000000 08:02 360019                     /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache

7f41cb03b000-7f41cb0bc000 rw-p 7f41cb03b000 00:00 0

7f41cb0bc000-7f41d018f000 r--p 00000000 08:02 2151024                    /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive

7f41d018f000-7f41d0192000 rw-p 7f41d018f000 00:00 0

7f41d01b8000-7f41d01ba000 rw-p 7f41d01b8000 00:00 0

7fff445b2000-7fff445cb000 rw-p 7ffffffe6000 00:00 0                      [stack]

7fff445ff000-7fff44600000 r-xp 7fff445ff000 00:00 0                      [vdso]

ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]

./ati-installer.sh: line 39:  6724 Aborted                 ./setup.data/bin/${ARCH_DIR}/setup 2> /dev/null

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.Cgo5FZ

[cheung]

don't use xv?

I know that, but there is really no other better option?

I can compile lastest open source radeon and drm driver, but it does not have 3D support.
I can't use radeon with 3D visual effect of compiz or Kwin.