ATI fglrx 8.31.5 Display Drivers

[Michael]

No new features are in this release, but there is a chunk of resolved issues:

# Setting the display resolution to 400x300 or less no longer results in the mouse pointer not being able to move across the entire desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 733-23732
# The graphics driver no longer hangs the system shortly after the X Server is started on Red Hat enterprise Linux 3 system running Uniprocessor kernels. Further details can be found in topic number 733-23731
# Playing a media file under any distribution with X Server 6.9 or greater no longer results in a brief pause or video tearing when resizing the video window or running the mouse pointer over the video player window. Further details can be found in topic number 733-23730
# Using aticonfig to set the TV format to PAL-COMB-N no longer fails to update the X Server configuration file. Further details can be found in topic number 733-23729

Release Notes: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...ux_8.31.5.html (Note they are now the AMD Proprietary Display Drivers)

Phoronix Review: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=7876

[crash_override]

Hi, I'm aThinkpad T60 user;
I've succesfullyy installed 8.29.6 drivers with you script on my FC6;

Now I'm trying to update to 8.31.5 but I receive some errors.

Which is the way do you used to install this driver on T60?

Thanks

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[Michael]

I just use ./ati-831-driver-name.run --buildpkg Fedora/FC6

What errors are you running into?

[crash_override]

Hi,
with ./ati-831-driver-name.run --buildpkg Fedora/FC6 I've built rpms.
After I've installed *.rpm without errors.
I've rebooted the pc, then I've run aticonfig --initial without errors; but direct rendering is disabled.

[root@hal9000 X11]# fglrxinfo 
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.1)

this is my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

[Michael]

What errors are in your Xorg.0.log?

I have no problems with the T60 and the 8.31 drivers.

[crash_override]

this is my log

http://www.difficile.it/xorg.0.log.txt

[Michael]

Oops I just noticed from your above xorg.conf that it doesn't look like Composite is disabled. Here is a working conf from a T60.

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "v4l"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "disable"
EndSection

[crash_override]

But with

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "disable"
EndSection

I can't run AIGLX...It's true?

[Michael]

The fglrx drivers do not support AIGLX.

[crash_override]

oh no..... I've tryed with DRI drivers, but (I dont knw why) I can't build them; only may I hope for support in future releases....

Thank you very much for help.