Catalyst 8.3 vel 8.47 drivers released!

Question

AMD/ATI has released a new version of it's fglrx driver - Catalyst 8.3 vel. 8.47. There are some bug fixes, like:
---> fixed FireGL 3D application corruption when running at some resolutions
---> fixed  display flickering when gnome-screen-saver starts
---> fixed some image brightness and gamma correction issues
---> fixed diagonal tearing when using X-Video, and video playback is no longer "blocky" when using X-Video
The only new feature is X-Video support for the Xpress 1200 hardware.
Hope we will have them soon in [extra]

Answer 1

I knew that I could do those 2 things, but maybe there was something else aswell that is needed to be changed. Easier than I thought then
Thanks, I so hope fglrx will work this time around..
EDIT: If you change it to 8.03 it won't work, because ATI hasn't uploaded their driver with the same structure of the filename.
This is what ATI has done with their filenames:
ATI Catalyst 7.11: ati-driver-installer-7-11-x86.x86_64.run
ATI Catalyst 7.12: ati-driver-installer-8.443.1-x86.x86_64.run
ATI Catalyst 8.1: ati-driver-installer-8-01-x86.x86_64.run
ATI Catalyst 8.2: ati-driver-installer-8-02-x86.x86_64.run
ATI Catalyst 8.3: ati-driver-installer-8.3-x86.x86_64.run
So you see that you need a different structure in the filename.
Working PKGBUILD for catalyst-utils:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.4 2008/02/18 01:52:22 travis Exp $
# Maintainer: Travis Willard <[email protected]>
# Thanks to dibblethewrecker for the original work and packages.
# Thanks to testing monkey S1G1 for contributions
pkgname=catalyst-utils
pkgver=8.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Proprietary AMD/ATI userspace tools and libraries for Radeon brand cards."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.ati.amd.com"
license=('custom')
#finger required for acpi scripts
depends=('xorg-server>=1.1.1' 'libdrm' 'libstdc++5' 'netkit-bsd-finger' \
'libxrandr' 'libsm' 'fontconfig' 'libxcursor' 'libxi' 'gcc-libs')
replaces=('ati-drivers' 'ati-fglrx-utils' 'fglrx-utils')
conflicts=('libgl' 'ati-drivers-module' 'ati-drivers' 'nvidia')
provides=('libgl')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-${pkgver/./-}-x86.x86_64.run \
amdcccle.desktop catalyst.sh atieventsd.sh ati-powermode.sh.patch)
#md5sums=('bcdf3c19c0b7a7c2051d751d5131d426'
# '1f4b870e977b155af549442932e8ce6f'
# 'bdafe749e046bfddee2d1c5e90eabd83'
# 'f729bf913613f49b0b9759c246058a87'
# 'b157eecaf2e26b386c427f3a64672dbc')
options=('!strip')
build() {
cd $startdir/src
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && _arch="x86";
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && _arch="x86_64";
/bin/sh ./ati-driver-installer-${pkgver-x86.x86_64.run --extract archive_files
# Grab the example ACPI scripts for lid close and AC plugged/unplugged
mkdir -p $startdir/src/etc/
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/common/usr/share/doc/fglrx/examples/etc/acpi $startdir/src/etc -r
cd $startdir/src/etc/acpi
sed -i "s#/usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig#/usr/bin/aticonfig#g" $startdir/src/etc/acpi/ati-powermode.sh || return 1
sed -i "s#--effective=now##g" $startdir/src/etc/acpi/ati-powermode.sh || return 1
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/ati-powermode.sh.patch
cd ../..
# Get our architecture files and common files all in one place
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/arch/${_arch}/* $startdir/src/ -r
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/common/* $startdir/src/ -r
if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/x710_64a/* $startdir/src/ -r
else
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/x710/* $startdir/src/ -r
fi
# Remove src and documents - install remaining files
mkdir -p $startdir/src/usr/share/pixmaps
mv $startdir/src/usr/share/icons/* $startdir/src/usr/share/pixmaps/
rm -rf $startdir/src/usr/{src,share/{icons,doc,applnk,gnome}}
# Install into correct paths for Xorg7
install -d -m 755 $startdir/pkg/usr/include $startdir/pkg/usr/bin \
$startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules $startdir/pkg/etc \
$startdir/pkg/usr/share $startdir/pkg/usr/sbin \
$startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d $startdir/pkg/etc/acpi
mv $startdir/src/etc/* $startdir/pkg/etc/
mv $startdir/src/usr/sbin/* $startdir/pkg/usr/sbin/
mv $startdir/src/usr/include/* $startdir/pkg/usr/include/
mv $startdir/src/usr/share/* $startdir/pkg/usr/share/
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/include/* $startdir/pkg/usr/include/
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/bin/* $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/
if [ "$CARCH" == "x86_64" ]; then
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/
rm -rf $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib64/* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib
else
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/
rm -rf $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib/modules
mv $startdir/src/usr/X11R6/lib/* $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/
fi
# correct dir permissions
find $startdir/pkg/usr -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# correct FILE permissions - >=8.39.4 has nearly every file marked 0744. This
# is dumb, and previous versions of the drivers had no files marked this
# way. Fixing permissions of files to what they were in 8.38.6
find $startdir/pkg/etc -not -type d -exec chmod 0444 {} \;
find $startdir/pkg/etc -name '*.sh' -not -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;
chmod u+w $startdir/pkg/etc/{ati/control,acpi/ati-powermode.sh}
find $startdir/pkg/usr/{bin,lib,sbin} -not -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
chmod 0555 $startdir/pkg/usr/sbin/atigetsysteminfo.sh
find $startdir/pkg/usr/lib -name '*.a' -not -type d -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find $startdir/pkg/usr/{share,include} -not -type d -exec chmod 0444 {} \;
find $startdir/pkg/usr/share/ati/amdcccle/ -name '*.qm' -not -type d -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find $startdir/pkg/usr/share/man -not -type d -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
# create proper symlinks to libGL.so, libfglrx_pp.so, and libfglrx_gamma.so
cd $startdir/pkg/usr/lib
ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so
ln -s libGL.so.1.2 libGL.so.1
ln -sf /usr/lib/libfglrx_pp.so.1.0 libfglrx_pp.so.1
ln -sf /usr/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1.0 libfglrx_gamma.so.1
mkdir -p ${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
cd ${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
ln -sf libGLcore.xorg libGLcore.so
ln -sf libglx.xorg libglx.so
# install licenses
install -m 0644 -D $startdir/src/archive_files/ATI_LICENSE.TXT \
$startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/AMD_ATI_LICENSE.TXT
# create DE file
install -m 0755 -D $startdir/src/amdcccle.desktop \
$startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/amdcccle.desktop
# thanks to cerebral, we dont need that damned symlink
install -m 0755 -D $startdir/src/catalyst.sh \
$startdir/pkg/etc/profile.d/catalyst.sh
# Add ATI Events Daemon launcher
install -m 0755 -D $startdir/src/atieventsd.sh \
$startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d/atieventsd
Working PKGBUILD for catalyst: (I know this isn't the prettiest way but it works:p)
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.8 2008/02/18 01:47:54 travis Exp $
# Maintainer: Travis Willard <[email protected]>
# Contributor: amdviaman
pkgname=catalyst
pkgver=8.3
_kernel_version=2.6.24
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Proprietary AMD/ATI kernel drivers for Radeon brand cards. Stock kernel."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.ati.amd.com"
license=('custom')
depends=("catalyst-utils>=${pkgver}" "kernel26>=${_kernel_version}-2" "kernel26<=${_kernel_version}.9999")
makedepends=()
replaces=('ati-fglrx' 'fglrx') # Yay rebranding
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-${pkgver/./-}-x86.x86_64.run)
#md5sums=('bcdf3c19c0b7a7c2051d751d5131d426')
_kernver=${_kernel_version}-ARCH
build() {
cd $startdir/src
[ "$CARCH" = "i686" ] && _arch="x86"
[ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && _arch="x86_64"
/bin/sh ./ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run --extract archive_files
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/arch/${_arch}/* $startdir/src/ -r
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/common/* $startdir/src/ -r
if [ "$CARCH" == "x86_64" ]; then
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/x710_64a/* $startdir/src/ -r
else
cp $startdir/src/archive_files/x710/* $startdir/src/ -r
fi
cd $startdir/src
cd $startdir/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/
# Build the kernel module
cp 2.6.x/Makefile .
make -C /lib/modules/${_kernver}/build SUBDIRS="`pwd`" modules || return 1
# Install the kernel module
install -m 644 -D $startdir/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/fglrx.ko \
$startdir/pkg/lib/modules/${_kernver}/video/fglrx.ko
sed -i -e "s/KERNEL_VERSION=.*/KERNEL_VERSION=${_kernver}/g" $startdir/$install
# install licenses
install -m 0644 -D $startdir/src/archive_files/ATI_LICENSE.TXT \
$startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/AMD_ATI_LICENSE.TXT
EDIT:
Last edited by kevin89 (2008-03-06 14:45:31)