AMD 8.42.3 Driver Released -- The Baby Is Born!

[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...

[Michael]

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...

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

[givemesugarr]

* 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

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!!!!!!!!!

[Uchikoma]

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

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

Then added (compiz)

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

and (xorg.conf)

Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
EndSection

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

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

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

 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)

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

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

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

[sastraxi]

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...

[aoanla]

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.

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

[Michael]

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

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

[zmaster]

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).

[c0un7d0wn]

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!!!!!!!!!

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

[zmaster]

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

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