AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux Driver Released

[pandev92]

I believed that my pc was overheating by free drivers, but the other day it clean with compressed air and my pc has a very low temperature,

Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +67.0°C

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +66.1°C (high = +70.0°C)
(crit = +115.5°C, hyst = +110.5°C)


After I had 90 degrees, but now my pc is fresh , Thank you amd for drop my card, Now I use a decent driver. No tearing on opengl output for videos, good opengl perfomance, good desktop effects performance, good native games performance, I play every day amnesia with this drivers and I don't have any problem .

My pc is a hp pavilion dv6 2120 with radeon 4650

[Vi0L0]

Got some question to non-ubuntu (maybe non-debian) users:
are you able to use this driver with xorg-server 1.13?

As an Arch user i'm not able to start X, still getting Xorg.log' error:

(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension

I can see that also Mageia user is getting same error.


I did some quick research but don't see anything special in ubuntu's fglrx...
Although ubuntu's xserver 1.13 is patched with "tons" of patches.
Question: is it possible that 12.9 beta supports only ubuntu's xserver?

[Kano]

No ubuntu got as usual a "special" driver, something that i absolutely hate.

[Vi0L0]

No ubuntu got as usual a "special" driver, something that i absolutely hate.

indeed! darn it, i thought they are the same! What a disinformation! It's like third 9.00 within a month...

Anyhow still no success in starting Xserver 1.13 even with ubuntu's driver (still on Arch Linux) - got no error in Xorg.log, just black screen. Xorg.log said it's far farther, last lines:

[     4.415] (**) fglrx(0): AMD 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
[     4.415] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series " (Chipset = 0x6819)
[     4.415] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x174b, PciSubDevice = 0xe218)
[     4.415] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT original AMD
[     4.415] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xd0000000
[     4.415] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xfe8c0000
[     4.415] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x0000c000
[     4.415] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
[     4.416] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used

So no success atm, but closer, works fine with xserv 1.12 though so it's built fine

Anyway thanks Kano!

[legluondunet]

Finally Ubuntu Quantal put them fglrx drivers version. I just installed them, they work but it a little bit too slow, they need optimization.

#apt-cache show fglrx
Package: fglrx
Priority: extra
Section: restricted/misc
Installed-Size: 236703
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: fglrx-installer
Version: 2:9.000-0ubuntu1

[fritsch]

Ubuntu Quantal:
9.00.11-120920a-147436C-ATI
[20592.361784] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 9.0.2 [Sep 20 2012] with 1 minors

12.9 Beta (same as Embedded Driver with different control file):
9.00-120815a-147115C-ATI
[ 5.229425] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 9.0.2 [Aug 15 2012] with 1 minors

So there is one month difference between quantal and the other one. Meaning Quantal versionis one month newer.

[sonnet]

Finally Ubuntu Quantal put them fglrx drivers version. I just installed them, they work but it a little bit too slow, they need optimization.

What do you mean slow?
Is it something you can quatify with a benchmark?
Are they slow only with xorg 1.13 or even with 1.12?
Other people reported to be faster than previous releases.
What DE are you running?

I'm interested as I have a Radeon too, and I'm waiting good drivers to install Quantal

[d2kx]

Well they are not slower for me with Ubuntu Quantal. I noticed some bugs with Google Chrome hardware acceleration but that's it.

[legluondunet]

windows 3D games with wine = very slower than on precise.

[storma]

A whine about wine in regards to fglrx.