ROSA 2012.1 beta.. fglrx support?

[DisappearingOak]

Hello, I'm testing ROSA desktop 2012.1 beta and came across a problem. My graphic chip is Radeon 4250, so fglrx-legacy should be supported since the Xorg version is 1.12.4. But the ROSA control center does not have any option for proprietary driver for "Radeon 4870 and earlier". I installed fglrx-legacy package from the repos and manually did 'sudo aticonfig --initial -f' because the control center has no option. It generated a xorg.conf but on boot I get an error - fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:5:0) found.
xorg.conf

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

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

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

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

So I had to revert to radeon driver. Is there any way to get this working since radeon is a little slow.

[akdengi]

I'm working now for this part of hardware - Nvidia is done, but ATI/AMD in progress. Stay tuned!

[akdengi]

Please update Beta version for latest ldetect-lst and drivers, then try use XFdrake again - now i'm add singnatures for fglrx-legacy supported cards.

[DisappearingOak]

Hi. Thanks for the quick reply. I updated sources lists but Update Tool from Control Center does not show any updates as available. "The list of updates is empty. This means that either there is no available update for the packages installed on your computer, or you already installed all of them."

Edit. urpmi --auto-update has some updates listed. I'm downloading right now. I wonder why they aren't listed in the gui update tool.

[akdengi]

If release not done we not has update, displayed by GUI - only CLI.

[DisappearingOak]

akdengi: After finishing updates and rebooting, the option to use fglrx-legacy appears, and it fetches the packages but on Test it always says 'no screens found'. I tried the 'Custom' mode with default refresh rates, and also the 'Plug and Play' mode, but it only says "No screens found" when testing. Monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 943nwx (should be plug and play). This particular model is not listed in Samsung monitor list in xfdrake. I tried some of the other model names but only get the same result - no screens found.

Also, when I select free driver radeon, and the monitor resolution page appears, it only shows 4:3 and 5:4 resolutions. Mine is 16:10 1440x900. Before the update it showed the 1440x900 resolution, but not now. So I've left the configuration as it was before and not saved any changes.

I hope the issue is resolved so I can use fglrx. Thanks.

[DisappearingOak]

Any updates on this?

[akdengi]

frglx-legacy must be installable. Test is not work for some reason, but you may run XFdrake from command line and see install process.

BUT... You need install kernel-desktop-devel package for properly install dkms part.

[DisappearingOak]

frglx-legacy must be installable. Test is not work for some reason, but you may run XFdrake from command line and see install process.

BUT... You need install kernel-desktop-devel package for properly install dkms part.

System is fully updated and kernel-desktop-devel is installed. After using XFdrake to configure proprietary drivers.. I disabled splash screen on boot and got this
fglrx-legacy.. installing module
Bad exit status (10)
Build failed - installation skipped

and I get no gui.
I switched to another virtual terminal and tried startx manually and get 'no matching device for BusID(..) found' and 'no screens found'. Something is broken it seems. Reverted to radeon for now. Am I missing some package?

[akdengi]

May you get output of lspcidrake -v | grep VGA ?

[DisappearingOak]

May you get output of lspcidrake -v | grep VGA ?

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lspcidrake -v | grep VGA
fglrx           : Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI|RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:9715 subv:1458 subd:d000)

[akdengi]

Yep. Card need be supported by fglrx-legacy.
May you try install driver from AMD site? We need investigate, where is problem. In ldetect-lst you card is properly detected:

0x1002 0x9715 "Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 to HD 4870 (radeon/fglrx-legacy)"

[DisappearingOak]

Yep. Card need be supported by fglrx-legacy.
May you try install driver from AMD site? We need investigate, where is problem. In ldetect-lst you card is properly detected:

0x1002 0x9715 "Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 to HD 4870 (radeon/fglrx-legacy)"

Ok, installing from AMD site also gives an error.
fglrx-install.log

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Detected a previous installation, /usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh
Dryrun uninstall succeeded continuing with installation.
Check if system has the tools required for installation.
Uninstalling any previously installed drivers.
removing dkms-fglrx-legacy-8.97.100.3-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64 fglrx-legacy-control-center-8.97.100.3-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64 fglrx-legacy-devel-8.97.100.3-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64 x11-driver-video-fglrx-legacy-8.97.100.3-2-rosa2012.1.x86_64
Preparing...                     #############################################

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 8.97.100.3-2
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
removing package fglrx-legacy-devel-8.97.100.3-2.x86_64
removing package x11-driver-video-fglrx-legacy-8.97.100.3-2.x86_64
removing package dkms-fglrx-legacy-8.97.100.3-2.x86_64
removing package fglrx-legacy-control-center-8.97.100.3-2.x86_64
writing /var/lib/rpm/installed-through-deps.list

The following packages:
  kernel-desktop-devel-3.5.7-2rosa-1-1-rosa2012.1.x86_64
  kernel-nrj-desktop-3.5.6-1rosa-1-1-rosa2012.1.x86_64
  kernel-nrj-desktop-devel-3.5.6-1rosa-1-1-rosa2012.1.x86_64
  lib64cpufreq0-008-3-rosa2012.1.x86_64
  lib64xulrunner14.0.1-14.0.1-0.1-rosa2012.1.x86_64
are now orphaned, if you wish to remove them, you can use "urpme --auto-orphans"
The AMD proprietary driver has been uninstalled.
/usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh completed with 0

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.97.100.3/source ->
                 /usr/src/fglrx-8.97.100.3

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.97.100.3/build; sh make.sh --nohints --uname_r=3.5.7-desktop-2rosa --norootcheck....(bad exit status: 1)
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.97.100.3 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.97.100.3 from DKMS

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 8.97.100.3
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
[Reboot] Kernel Module : dracut

After rebooting I get gui, but there are no desktop effects and lspci -vv still shows

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01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device d000
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 4 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at fdde0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 5: Memory at fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: radeon

And moving windows results in a lot of lag.

[akdengi]

We need now wait will done updates Xorg to 13 ABI and new kernel. All will be done for Thursday and you need than install latest kernel (3.6.4) and update Xorg.

P.S. I think fglrx-legacy may be some buggy and not work with any related cards.

[DisappearingOak]

We need now wait will done updates Xorg to 13 ABI and new kernel. All will be done for Thursday and you need than install latest kernel (3.6.4) and update Xorg.

P.S. I think fglrx-legacy may be some buggy and not work with any related cards.

Ok. No problem. But I think we might not be able to install fglrx-legacy on Xorg version 13, I read that AMD has not updated fglrx-legacy for xorg 13. Not sure about that. I think if it will be incompatible, then best to use open source drivers.

[akdengi]

It's some intresting, becouse in Ubuntu people say, that is possible. We may test this after update

[PastorDi]

Hello, I'm testing ROSA desktop 2012.1 beta and came across a problem. My graphic chip is Radeon 4250, so fglrx-legacy should be supported since the Xorg version is 1.12.4. But the ROSA control center does not have any option for proprietary driver for "Radeon 4870 and earlier". I installed fglrx-legacy package from the repos and manually did 'sudo aticonfig --initial -f' because the control center has no option. It generated a xorg.conf but on boot I get an error - fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:5:0) found.
xorg.conf

So I had to revert to radeon driver. Is there any way to get this working since radeon is a little slow.

Strange, but I have the same card HD4250. Open ROSA Control Center (in ROSA 2012 Beta) and from install proprietary drivers fgrlx. After the reboot everything works FINE.
Why you want to use a driver from the HD4870 (48xx series)? You have the same card HD4250 (42xxx series).

[akdengi]

With newest driver support for all ATI/AMD card < 5xxx droped.
It's need be use old legacy driver and (if it not works with X.org 13) may be only free driver...

But we will use X.org 13 in 2012.1 - newest machines and newest cards has more priority...

[DisappearingOak]

Hello, I'm testing ROSA desktop 2012.1 beta and came across a problem. My graphic chip is Radeon 4250, so fglrx-legacy should be supported since the Xorg version is 1.12.4. But the ROSA control center does not have any option for proprietary driver for "Radeon 4870 and earlier". I installed fglrx-legacy package from the repos and manually did 'sudo aticonfig --initial -f' because the control center has no option. It generated a xorg.conf but on boot I get an error - fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:5:0) found.
xorg.conf

So I had to revert to radeon driver. Is there any way to get this working since radeon is a little slow.

Strange, but I have the same card HD4250. Open ROSA Control Center (in ROSA 2012 Beta) and from install proprietary drivers fgrlx. After the reboot everything works FINE.
Why you want to use a driver from the HD4870 (48xx series)? You have the same card HD4250 (42xxx series).

PastorDi, when I made that post, it was on a fresh install of 2012.1 beta (not updated), and there was no option at that time for proprietary drivers for 42xx in ROSA control center. After the new updates, there is an option for proprietary drivers for 42xx but for some reason it is not working here. Can you confirm if fglrx IS properly installed on your system with lspci -vv and checking the "kernel driver in use" line? Possibly something might be wrong at my end.

But if fglrx-legacy turns out to be not compatible with xorg 13, then neither you nor I will be able to use it in the final release. Unless it is compatible. I'm not sure if it is or not.

[akdengi]

You can test this for now - common X11 driver is built and if you not worry about package like s3 or trident, update system and try configure it from XFdrake. If system will not work anymore i check for me, that legacy driver stop working and we need change string in ldetect-lst.

[DisappearingOak]

You can test this for now - common X11 driver is built and if you not worry about package like s3 or trident, update system and try configure it from XFdrake. If system will not work anymore i check for me, that legacy driver stop working and we need change string in ldetect-lst.

It's not working for me. After configuration and reboot, I get fglrx-legacy Installing module.. Bad exit status (10) Build failed.
I would wait for others to confirm.