more of a news item. The new ATI 9.10 catalyst driver has been released. From what I’ve read its supposed to support the kernel used in 11.2. I haven’t tried it yet (activity for the weekend), but thought I’d let the other ati users out there know about it
Make sure that you have kernel-desktop/server/xen-devel that matches your kernel if you want to use the Linux Catalyst driver auto-builder (otherwise you will have 3D issues because the modules won’t build due to incomplete-source errors). I ran into this with a fresh install of 11.2 RC1; installing kernel-desktop-devel that matches my kernel let me go back and rebuild the modules (/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/./make.sh and /lib/modules/fglrx/./make_install.sh, in that order, and each run using sudo or as root) and solve the performance woes (and even let me use compiz).
Yea, that confused me too. And when I did manage to successfully install it, it hung when starting X11. I tried a number of things and it finally worked (I’m not sure how). Note that I have a Radeon 4870 and I’m running the 64-bit version of the OS.
Firstly, I think it may have gotten fixed when I installed glibc-32bit and glibc-devel-32bit.
Moreover, I installed the driver directly instead of creating a distribution-specific package. This might not be as important.
So try 1 first. If that doesn’t work, try 2 as well to see if it works. Note that if you install it directly, you can use /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh to uninstall the driver.
Ok, well I did 1, but same result. Then tried 2, but when I dropped to runlevel 3, then did Sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx and went back runlevel 5, everything looks like I’m using a VESA mode driver.
Windows paint really slow, can’t turn on 3d effects in KDE.
hello i try to install the Ati driver in RC.1 but a i get this error when a i put this glxinfo|grep OpenGL.
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 135 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 16
Current serial number in output stream: 16
install without errors and is like no driver is intalled
Thanks for the information. Could anyone decipher for me: is it worth installing the driver for a built-in ATI Radeon x200 on an ASUS P5RD1-V main board and for a built-in ATI Mobility Radeon x1250 on an ASUS A7U notebook? I can’t understand what are those “families” in the release notes
finally got some time to try this out. I confirmed that I had the requisite libraries installed (freetype wasn’t installed by default)
I ran the script in GUI mode selecting automatic. No error messages were in the shell. When it finished I ran aticonfig – initial. Again no special errors.
I rebooted, and no 3d! anyone have luck with this yet?
glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 135 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 14
Current serial number in output stream: 14
One suse person appears to have had some luck, but its not clear to me what version they used
> Is there a chance that this is a bug. The forum poster in this link
> seems to think so…
> ‘AMD Catalyst 9.10 Released - Page 4 - Phoronix Forums’
> (http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19753&page=4)
>
> If so is it an Opensuse issue or an ATI bug?
No chance this can be an openSUSE bugs because openSUSE does not provide the
ATI drivers, they are still a bit “proprietary”
OTOH, openSUSE does not address any bug comming from ATI or Nvidia “closed”
drivers, they are automatically “ignored” in bugzilla.
ATI no longer provides the proprietary drivers for cards older than the radeon2000 series after the Catalyst 9.3 release. They have been moved to legacy status.The Open Source radeon driver meets or beats the 2D performance, and the 3D performance is slowly closing the gap.
For the people whose driver is not loading after install (i.e. “glxinfo|grep OpenGL” doesn’t give the right stuff), you probably want to look for any lines starting with (EE) in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to get a hint on what is failing.
Made a fresh install of RC2 and… After some troubleshooting i was changing the digital cable to a analog one between radeon 3650 card and my flat-screen. The flickering was gone. Still the system was very slow switching between windows, scrolling etc.
Downloaded latest ati driver (ati-driver-installer-9-10-x86.x86_64.run) installed it and went to /lib/modules/fglrx/ and run “./make_install.sh”. After that i had working fglrx and Desktops effects.
I have a Radeon 2600 (mobility?), and haven’t had luck. I submitted a bug to the ATI site, and received an email from a developer saying that Opensuse 11.2 won’t be supported until the 9.11 driver is release… not good news for those of us who still have troubles.
any other users of this card out there get things working?