Broken Ati website?

[bogdanbiv]

I wanted to play some 3d accelerated games, so I tried to install the latest fglrx driver (8.44.3.1), but I had no success.
I have a AMD ATI Radeon 2600XT card and Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy 32bit as OS.

I went to the ATI web page for downloading drivers for Linux x86, 32 bit - the link should be http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html

However this page only links to Linux x86, 64bit version: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run

I tried installing the provided version anyway, but it doesn't help a bit!

If anyone has the link to the right driver, please post it here.
Should I try the Radeon open source driver?

[teroedni]

It is the right version

The installer works for both 64 bit and 32 bit systems

How did you install the driver?
And which distro are you using?

[Dandel]

I agree with teroedni on this, ATI changed it's drivers heavily a few versions ago, and reduced the size and number of drivers they had to provide by simply only requiring 1 download... and yes, that is the current driver for linux... at least until sometime in the middle of January.

[werdz]

I wanted to play some 3d accelerated games, so I tried to install the latest fglrx driver (8.44.3.1), but I had no success.
I have a AMD ATI Radeon 2600XT card and Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy 32bit as OS.

I went to the ATI web page for downloading drivers for Linux x86, 32 bit - the link should be http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html

However this page only links to Linux x86, 64bit version: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run

I tried installing the provided version anyway, but it doesn't help a bit!

If anyone has the link to the right driver, please post it here.
Should I try the Radeon open source driver?

Hi,

If you want to use the latest fglrx driver, you'll have to first stop ubuntu from managing it itself via its restricted drivers manager. Do this by adding fglrx to the DISABLED_MODULES list at the bottom of /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common.

Next, install dkms (makes the kernel module easier to install) with sudo apt-get install dkms

finally, download the file from the AMD website, and generate ubuntu packages:

sh ati-(press tab to get file name) --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10

(Ubuntu and Kubuntu are the same from a driver standpoint)

Next, install all of the packages you've just generated:

sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb

(do this for all the .deb files generated by the ati installer)

You have to do the xorg driver first, followed then by amdcccle and the kernel source (which compiles automatically if you have dkms set up)

Finally, try sudo modprobe fglrx (this seems to only be needed some of the time :/), followed by aticonfig --initial, followed by a reboot.

Hope that helps,
-Andrew

[bogdanbiv]

1) I had put DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx" in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

2) DKMS installed successfully with sudo apt-get install dkms, here is the output:

Selecting previously deselected package gawk.
(Reading database ... 84366 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gawk (from .../gawk_1%3a3.1.5.dfsg-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dkms.
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.0.17.4-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
Setting up gawk (1:3.1.5.dfsg-4ubuntu1) ...

Setting up dkms (2.0.17.4-0ubuntu2) ...

3) When I call
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy
or
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10

I get this:
Created directory fglrx-install.z11111
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.443.1
.........
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Ubuntu/gutsy
./packages/Ubuntu/ati-packager.sh: 176: dpkg-architecture: not found
Error: unsupported architecture:
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.z11111

dpkg is - as far as I know - a central piece in the package management system.

When i search for executables starting with dpkg, here's what I get:
dpkg dpkg-preconfigure dpkg-split
dpkg-deb dpkg-query dpkg-statoverride
dpkg-divert dpkg-reconfigure dpkg-trigger

Also `which dpkg` returns:
/usr/bin/dpkg

Any ideas?

[bogdanbiv]

1) I had put DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx" in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

2) DKMS installed successfully with sudo apt-get install dkms, here is the output:


3) When I call
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy
or
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10

I get this:

Created directory fglrx-install.z11111
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.443.1
.........
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Ubuntu/gutsy
./packages/Ubuntu/ati-packager.sh: 176: dpkg-architecture: not found
Error: unsupported architecture:
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.z11111

dpkg is - as far as I know - a central piece in the package management system.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: 1) dpkg-architecture is part of dpkg-dev, installing dpkg-dev solves the problem with dpkg-architecture: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...und...-501592/

2) I had hit another wall/show stopper:

dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 8.443.1-1
debian/rules build
echo "Using architecture: i386"
Using architecture: i386
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/control.template ]; then \
cat /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/control.template > /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/control; \
fi
for i in preinst postinst postrm shlibs atieventsd.init ; do \
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/driver.$i ]; then \
sed -e "s/#PKGNAME#/xorg-driver-fglrx/" \
-e "s/#DISTRO#/gutsy/" /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/driver.$i > \
/tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/xorg-driver-fglrx.$i; \
fi; \
done
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/10fglrx.template ]; then \
sed -e "s|#XMODDIR#|usr/lib|" -e "s|#XMODDIR32#|usr/lib32|" \
/tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/10fglrx.template > /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/10fglrx; \
fi
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
mv /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/fglrx.default /tmp/fglrx.Q12142/debian/fglrx; \
fi
dh_testdir
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: *** [configure] Error 127
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.X12064

3) I understand AMD can not make this driver open source, but can't they make the installer opensource?

[bogdanbiv]

1) I had put DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx" in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common

2) DKMS installed successfully with sudo apt-get install dkms, here is the output:


3) When I call
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy
or
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10

I get this:

Created directory fglrx-install.z11111
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.443.1
.........
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Ubuntu/gutsy
./packages/Ubuntu/ati-packager.sh: 176: dpkg-architecture: not found
Error: unsupported architecture:
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.z11111

dpkg is - as far as I know - a central piece in the package management system.
I installed dpkg-dev, which contains dpkg-architecture executable and solved that problem.

4) But, I get another show stopper bug:

dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 8.443.1-1
debian/rules build
echo "Using architecture: i386"
Using architecture: i386
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/control.template ]; then \
cat /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/control.template > /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/control; \
fi
for i in preinst postinst postrm shlibs atieventsd.init ; do \
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/driver.$i ]; then \
sed -e "s/#PKGNAME#/xorg-driver-fglrx/" \
-e "s/#DISTRO#/gutsy/" /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/driver.$i > \
/tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/xorg-driver-fglrx.$i; \
fi; \
done
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/10fglrx.template ]; then \
sed -e "s|#XMODDIR#|usr/lib|" -e "s|#XMODDIR32#|usr/lib32|" \
/tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/10fglrx.template > /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/10fglrx; \
fi
if [ -f /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/fglrx.default ]; then \
mv /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/fglrx.default /tmp/fglrx.D12442/debian/fglrx; \
fi
dh_testdir
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: *** [configure] Error 127
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.B12364

The missing dh_testdir is, I think, an error in the installer script itself

[werdz]

Ah, sorry I forgot about that. The issue isn't that your system is missing dpkg, but its missing the tools needed to build dpkg (deb) packages.

I can't quite remember the name of the package that has them... I *think* it's dpkg-dev (you also need fakeroot iirc)

So try..

sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev fakeroot

(edit) Damnit, sorry didn't see the message you just posted. Try fakeroot though.. does that help anything?
(edit again) dh_testdir is part of debhelper. Try apt-get install debhelper

[bogdanbiv]

Not yet, I still get

dh_testdir
make: dh_testdir: Command not found
make: *** [configure] Error 127

I'll keep trying though! Maybe it'll tire to death :-).

[Bigon]

you also need the debhelper package