AMD Catalyst 8.5 For Linux

[Kano]

For 64 bit you have to patch your kernel. That integrated "fix" is 32 bit only it seems...

[zittergie]

and also have the watermark. Kinda Neat.
Everything works fine and fast at first sight. The KDE translucent shadow effects as mentioned are working like they should now.

I will test Second Monitor and Compiz on my laptop this week, because I had some troubles getting it working with 8.4

I miss 1360x768 from the catalyst center. Does anyone know how this can be added?

[kudlaty]

For 64 bit you have to patch your kernel. That integrated "fix" is 32 bit only it seems...

I'm one of those poor dudes still running a 32-bit system, I'm afraid.

Oh well, time to revert to 2.6.24, methinks.

[Vighy]

for me compiled well on a 64bit with kernel 2.6.25..

[kudlaty]

I've gone back to 2.6.24 now, no problem with the fglrx module (and everything else seems to work okay, too).

[r0ck]

I've submitted a ticket to AMD/ATi about this and from the updates on the support page I would say someone has read it already. It's flagged as "Work in Progress" maybe they'll upload a new package tomorrow.

[uzi-]

Hi,

for the people which are getting:

FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock'

the patch is:

237c237
< MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY");
---
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

for the file /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c

then you have to rerun sh make.sh in /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ and sh make_install.sh in /lib/modules/fglrx/

[FreeBzH]

Did anyone try with AGP cards ? like HD2400/2600 AGP

[uzi-]

my card is a x1650 AGP and i got no Problems with it after the license-fix

[yotambien]

Am I the only one whose CPU gets stuck in C2 after suspending with the propietary driver? (this happened to me already in the previous release)