ati-drivers (fglrx) problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12

francescofavero · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

Hi everyone.

I'm running Gentoo on my toshiba m30x laptop... everythinks it's perfect but the Radeon 9600 mobility M10...the driver fglrx won't work.
(ati-drivers-8.14.13-r1)
I havent tried again rececetly and I think I have not animore a log file to show... but it was a proble of fglrx_drv.o that had a lot of unresolved symbols... so X shuts down!! I resoved using the X radeon driver whit a glxgears of 360 FPS!!!

I have no time recently so I convenced myself that was a problem of my kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 or changes due of gcc-3.4.4 that i'm using... so I'm waiting for an updated driver...

If someone suggest me something or has the same problem and he passed I should "lose" time about other way I wait (no need to play some 3DwonerfullGame)...

Thanks CIAO!!!!!

x-jojo · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

thorak · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 9

He's showing you a diff between the original ebuild and the new, patched one, so you need to add the 1 (2) lines
preceeded by + to the ebuild in your portage overlay.

x-jojo · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

OK.

Please tell me, what I did wrong :lol:

I made a overlay dir and added it to my make.conf.
Then I made the digest and afterwards I tried to "emerge -av =ati-drivers-8.14.13" but:

YannTechGeek · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:37 pm Post subject:

put in package.keywords :

x-jojo · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

Thank you very much

It works fine now

fishcode · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 5

Kaiiserni · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

fishcode · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 5

the kernel is all right, there is nothing wrong.

francescofavero · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

Try with the ebuild...U have to modify it and apply the patches as shown before.

if you have gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 older ati drivers will not work, I have the same kernel and Radeon 9700 Mobility. DRI works well with this driver (2000 2100 FPS)...

make sure u have not xorg compiled with dlloader and no cababilities enabled in xorg.config.

Hope u fixed it.

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flayedchild · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 53 Location: New Hampshire

I tried the patch fix....
now I cannot start X. When I try the screen goes blank and locks. I tried to emerge the ati-drives again, I ran fglrxconfig again, and removed the fglrx from the list of mods to load at boot. I tried to boot with a different kernel. I even tried setting the AGP variable to yes, and no. But it alowas locks up after a good ol' startx. All I wanted was to race a penguin down a hill at 205km/h

-Thanks

Jimmy Jazz · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Strasbourg

Hello world,

did some of you managed to get ati-drivers-8.14.13 (and over) working well with the new >xorg-x11-6.8.99.8 Xorg releases ?
I remember ati flgrx driver won't work with opengl 2.0 librairies (the driver seems not to be compatible with opengl other than 1.3)!

Meanwhile, i'm stuck with xorg 6.8.99.8. Actually, i'm tired of continuously checking again and again the upcoming xorg release and see ati drivers won't be able to work in dri mode because of opengl 2.0

So it would be so nicer if xorg will continue to be backward compatible with opengl 1.3 drivers.

Could some of you (who did some tests) report us their results ?
That would certainly help us to save the stratospheric ozone layer shields life by limiting the number of redondant compulations throu the world

Thx

Jj

@x-jojo

i'm glade to read you finally did it

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blackwhite · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 250

http://cron0.net/linux/ati-drivers-8.14.13-r1.tar.gz
this ebuild works, you need get this revised ebuild to let 3d work.
this is from this thread.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2543715.html#2543715

Jimmy Jazz · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Strasbourg

behd · Apprentice Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 155

well have a good ol' 3.3.4 gcc with brand new 2.6.12-r6 gentoo-sources
and the main problem at compilation seems to be that the member 'slot_name' could not be found:

Jimmy Jazz · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 333 Location: Strasbourg

@behd

your ati-drivers is too old

, try the last one and read the posts above. They will help you to make it work.

Jj
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Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

Hello,

I am running a gentoo-sources 2.6.12-r6 kernel and the newest ati-drivers 8.14.3-r1 on a nforce2-chipset.
I cannot get DRI working.
This is the error, perhaps someone can give me a hint.

behd · Apprentice Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 155

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

ah, god it.
I used the ebuild from lenny (named it -r2 by the way, because -r1 exists) and now it works.
I cannot report a speedup, but at least it works.
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nutbar21 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 205 Location: USA

So would it be best to wait for ATi to release a new driver or what? I'm having this same issue of fglrx module not compiling during emerge ati-drivers.
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Hadriel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 75

@jimmy jazz
i have exact the same problem as zaxor. after doing this whole stuff you said, ebuild stops with

Master One · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 754 Location: Austria

I am jumping in on this topic, also I don't have any problems concerning the direct rendering on gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6 + ati-drivers-8.14.13-r2, but since my upgrade from kernel 2.6.11 to 2.6.12 (and the necessary upgrade of the ati-driver) I have strange graphical distortions with running a remote WinXP session (via rdp) or in vmware.

Those problems only seem to appear in the remote session window, and in the vmware guest window, and turn out to be black fields, where none should be (for example small icons in programs get a black background, or mousepointer surrounded by a black square, especially strange black graphical distortions in graphics programs). It definitely is a graphis card driver issue, and everything worked fine, before I did the kernel & ati-drivers update.

Any experienced the same problem?

I just wanted to downgrade to latest "x86" gentoo-sources-2.6.11, but strangely the 2.6.11 ebuilds have disappeared from portage.

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mki0 · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 2

No probs with me either. DRI works, nothing crashes when restarting X and there were no problems when compiling ati-drivers.
DRI didnt work with 8.14.13-r1 and X crashed on restarts, but 8.14.13-r2 works perfectly. I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6, with

YannTechGeek · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

Yeah!

now the 2.6.12.x kernel work perfectly with the latest ebuild of media-video/ati-drivers

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