Catalyst 8.5 not compiling on Fedora 9

[r0d3nt]

Hi All,

I just installed Fedora 9 and went to build the Catalyst 8.5 driver and got the below error.

sh ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Fedora/F9
Created directory fglrx-install.40l2J7
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.493...........................................
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Generating package: Fedora/F9
Package build failed!
Package build utility output:
error: %changelog entries must start with *
Building target platforms: i386
Building for target i386
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.40l2J7

Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?

[quadrifoglio17]

check thread

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showt...ed=1#post32844

[NeoBrain]

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showp...2&postcount=44
You can skip the Suspending and resuming if you do
./ati-driver-installer-8-5-x86.x86_64.run --extract exp
do the changes in the spec file and then
./ati-installer.sh 8-5 --buildpkg Fedora/F9

EDIT: Fixed that for F9 and I wanted to add that I only tested it on F8 (works like a charm), but it should work on F9, too.

[khakhovich]

i can compile it on FC9 no problem at all and i can even modprobe it alright... but when you start xorg... i throws
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex


anyone ?

[nadro]

i can compile it on FC9 no problem at all and i can even modprobe it alright... but when you start xorg... i throws
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex


anyone ?

I also have this problem on my Fedora 9.

[xunilos]

i can compile it on FC9 no problem at all and i can even modprobe it alright... but when you start xorg... i throws
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex


anyone ?

Yup, exact same problem for me, just installed F9, too. Argh.

[r0d3nt]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your responses. I wanted to install the fglrx 8.5 because in F8, I could only get the power saving for the LCD to work when there was a fglrx driver installed [the driver that came with F8 didn't support power management]. The driver that comes with F9 seems to support power management, so I think I'm going to wait until 8.6 to try this again. Granted the above work arounds would have worked, I just feel that a typical user shouldn't have to do anything to get a driver installed other than run the installer package with the correct parameters. Maybe I'm hoping for to much, especially when the driver has to be installed/compiled in Linux.

Again, thanks for all the feedback, it is greatly appreciated!

[nadro]

You can install Catalyst 8.5 in Fedora 9 and all works good I think, You only have to downgrade Xorg to Xorg from Fedora 8 I installed drivers in this steps on my Fedora 9 and all works good:

*Downgrade Xorg:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=188645

*Next I installed new kernel 2.6.25.3-18 and reboot of course.
*Next I installed Catalyst 8.5 in text mode

Next reboot and We have Catalyst 8.5 and 3d acceleration on Fedora 9 If ATI release drivers compatible with X Server 1.5 we will can very easy upgrade our Xorg via Yum to the latest version I think than it's the best solution for temporary using.

[chans_ph]

i'm having same problem on Fedora 9 :-\