[SOLVED]Are X11 and AMD catalyst drivers friends again?
last time i installed linux on my laptop X11 had dropped support fro amd catalyst drivers (proprietary video card drivers), did amd do something about it? did X11 team reconsider? can i use the catalyst drivers on X11 again now? my laptop and it's stupid APU or "dual graphics" aren't playing so nice with the open source radeon drivers.
Last edited by rabcor (2013-06-20 19:16:00)
If wine supported skype, i would be more dead set on using linux than using the amd proprietary drivers.
The reason this isn't a big deal to me is mostly because i only use this laptop for 3 things, regardless of OS. Teamspeak 3, Skype, Playing Videos.
I have it set up on a dual boot because neither windows nor linux seem to be reliable on this laptop, the reason is hardware-side, this APU is driving me nuts.
The reason i'm having problems with the radeon drivers is that even if i set my computer to disable the "switchable graphics" on boot it sometimes seems to randomly re-enable it without even notifying me. The reason this is bad is because the switchable graphics cause my laptopt to overheat. If this happens in windows it usually just enters hibernation mode while the heat levels are just barely critical, in linux however it keeps running for a while at critical levels before it'll finally just overeat. I'm hoping that the AMD proprietary drivers can help me solve this on the linux side.
Whichever operating system i can manage to make stop ever using the switchable graphics (thus preventing all overheating) will be the one i will use in the end, but i'm not in any big rush, windows is working decently for me on the laptop right now, and i can patiently wait for the amd proprietary drivers to support X again, since i don't interact much with the computer at all anyways. Using linux would mostly just be to make the laptop look better. Linux seems to be the more likely one to succeed with this task in the end however (because i can optimize/customize it a whole lot more than i ever could windows, and because i'm scared of updating the catalyst drivers in windows because my laptop has often just completely broken upon catalyst driver update in windows.)
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[ 46.215678] AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=02:00.0 domain=0x0000 address=0x0000000000100000 flags=0x0050]
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null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
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00:12.2 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 11)
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00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 4
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null
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Does anyone have a clue on how I could figure out if they installed uncommon patches or use weird parameters to get all this running?
Edit #2:
So I've searched through some of these odd IOMMU options and found this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentatio … ptions.txt
I tried iommu=soft as a kernel parameter and I get audio output and the AMD-Vi Events are no longer present. But can anyone explain to me what exactly I have done here? Using a "software bounce buffering" seems weird to me if I have some hardware present, that can do such things (The IOMMU, I assume)...
Since this really does not look like only audio-related problem, can someone perhaps move the thread to the right place. Although I'm not quite sure which this will be.
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Do i have to wait for new drivers to make it work properly?
Well, i hope someone could help me with that. Ahh, and sorry if i wrote something wrong, English is not my native language..Hey yo.
I did a test on the GX60 we have at Memory Express Richmond. It has the same CPU and GPU (A10-5750M and R9 M290). I updated the driver to the 14.7 RC Beta Driver and played Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and Thief, and the Mantle was selectable. However, it was only a marginal improvement over DX11 in Thief (4% gain), but a nice improvement in PvZ: Garden Warfare (15%). Might wanna try the new beta driver. If that fails, reinstall the entire catalyst software and drivers and try again. -
[SOLVED] Unable to update pacman - Catalyst database issue
Hi there,
I have the AMD catalyst drivers installed for Dell 1555 laptop. As they changed their server URL, I updated my pacman.conf as directed in Arch wiki and then added the GPG key with the following commands.
# pacman-key --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xabed422d653c3094
# pacman-key --lsign-key 0xabed422d653c3094
However, I still get the following error:
error GPGME error: No data
error GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package database...
xorg112 is up to date
catalyst-hd234k is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
error: database 'xorg112' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'catalyst-hd234k' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
Please help.
Last edited by ravisghosh (2013-03-08 20:34:37)Strangely, I did a pacman -Syu today and it worked well without any error. Not sure what was broken, but it is fixed now.
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[SOLVED] AMD Catalyst + Xinerama + Compiz
Compiz + xf86-video-ati = works
Compiz + AMD Catalyst = works
AMD Catalyst + Xinerama = works
all three, no so good.
I believe the issue is related to this:
$ compiz-check
Gathering information about your system...
Distribution: Arch Linux
Desktop environment: Xfce
Graphics chip: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts PRO [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
Driver in use: fglrx
Rendering method: None
Checking if it's possible to run Compiz on your system... [SKIP]
Checking for hardware/setup problems... [SKIP]
At least one check had to be skipped:
Error: No rendering method in use (AIGLX, Xgl or Nvidia)
Any idea how I set a rendering method? I did some research with not much luck.
All the other tests pass:
$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
OpenGL version string: 4.2.11903 Compatibility Profile Context
02:48:57 Mon Oct 22 crrobi01 ~/Desktop
$ lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 4606694 143
amd_iommu_v2 7367 1 fglrx
button 4662 1 fglrx
02:49:11 Mon Oct 22 crrobi01 ~/Desktop
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect, GL_AMD_name_gen_delete,
GL_ARB_draw_indirect, GL_ARB_draw_instanced,
GL_EXT_copy_buffer, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,
I've already enabled indirect rendering and generated a xorg.conf via
aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=left
Of course after creating the xconf I had to use CCC to switch to xinerama. Is xinerama the only way for me to have a single desktop which spans both my monitors (while using the propriety ATI drivers of course)?
After creating xorg.conf I edited it to include
"Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
and
Section "ServerLayout"
Option "AIGLX" "True"
EndSection
and I restarted X.
Solved:
gksu amdcccle
- Disable Xinerama
- Display Manager > Multi-Display > select "Multi-display desktop with display(s) 2"
- Reboot
Last edited by beardedlinuxgeek (2012-10-22 07:18:52)From AMD ATI Control Center I have set GPU to intel in order to save battery life and after restarting arch linux, now the error messages below have disappeared.
Only remaining the warning messages but if they are not harmful, then no problem
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast -
My trial of AMD Catalyst 12.3 and 12.2 pre-certified driver on Macbook Pro 2011 early
I would like to share my experience on installing AMD catalyst 12.3 and 12.2 pre-certified driver on macbook pro 2011 early. Before installing the drivers, I first used catalyst install manager to remove the previously installed driver and then driver sweeper to clean the residuals. After the cleaning process, the macbook pro simply backed to VGA display.
Unfortunately, the setup programs of these two drivers showed different behaviors. The 12.2 pre-certified setup program could detect the 6750M chip and install AMD display driver. You can tell the behavior by watching the messages shown during the installation process. Nevertheless, AMD seemed change the behavior the setup program. The program did not install the display driver & CCC but still continued to install HDMI/DP driver and other stuffs.
In short, if somebody wants to install 12.3, he definitely needs some extra tricks to do so.Boot into Safe Mode for a while to see if the panics cease. Meanwhile you need to upgrade Parallels to the current version, 7.x. If you are using the USB to Ethernet adaptor then unplug it along with any other peripherals. Uninstall LittleSnitch, Ambrosia extension, and VaraAudio extension (or uninstall the software that installed them using their uninstallers.)
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Catalyst drivers and 3D games. Help me!
I just saw that Catalyst drivers were updated to support the new Xorg.... nice.
So, I do a yaourt catalyst. All was fine until I rebooted.
Then I saw MineCraft won't run! Odd... it was complaining about LibGL.
Then launched LinCity-NG... same thing.
Hmm...
So I do pacman -Syu and Libgl is for download... but so is ati-drv.
I don't want to run open source drivers since they are too slow.
My issues:
1. How can I tell if I'm running the catalyst drivers?
2. aticonfig can't be found, what's wrong?
3. How do I get Libgl back but not install the open source drivers?Ignore my first post, I now have more trouble.
fglrx isn't building at all while I removed the ati-dri drivers. I'm now running the VESA drivers.
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