Coming Soon: Catalyst Control Center - Linux Edition

[Svartalf]

Yes but Vista is using the Orca rewrite which I assume will also be used on XP and linux (eventually). I'd love to see some performance improvements but I think that some other bugs (AA artifacts, freeze on logout/switch to console etc.) should be prioritized.

I wish I could tell you more, but...I'd have ta kill ya...

[giorgosts]

There are very serious bugs in fglrx. They have to fix these first. The GUI Control Panel is nonsense if the underlying program crashes, freezes and malfunctions.

[yoshi314]

i wonder how much time will it take to have them fixed.

[Michael]

i wonder how much time will it take to have them fixed.

Have what fixed exactly?

[d2kx]

I think he meant bugs many people are experiencing very often. I, for example, can't switch from X to console (shutdown/reboot also doesn't work properly), have slow performance and when I play a game two minutes the entire machine freezes. Also, when only X is running and I am surfing the web for example, my ATI Radeon X1900 XTX has the cooler running (not very fast, but much noisier than in Windows). And then I am waiting for features like the upcoming Catalyst Control Center in the 8.36-driver and for full AIGLX support.

[Michael]

...Catalyst Control Center in the 8.36-driver and for full AIGLX support...

Still thinking 8.36 due to that PCPer article? Had that PCPer article mentioned AIGLX?

[d2kx]

Yes and No. I can only hope that AIGLX comes soon...

[Iron_Mike]

Have what fixed exactly?

How about: this one:

(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitDAL failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
Screen(s) found but none have usable configuration


Check this post

http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=399

Note with the FC6 "Radeon" drivers there are not any issues whatsoever.

[Xiann]

I have X1900XT and it draws parts of any window in the lower right hand corner of my monitor with no 3D acceleration support. ATI Linux driver FTL.

[d2kx]

Weird problem, Xiann.

I tested 8.34.8 and found out that the crashes in games are gone, but I have one very bad problem left:

I can't switch to console with Ctrl+Alt+F1, when I do it, it hangs. I can then reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del. It also hangs when I want to reboot/shutdown under KDE. It just can't switch from X to console. Any ideas?