From the bug report I've filled a long time ago, it seems that ATI
users will soon be able to enjoy GNOME3 with fglrx driver (catalyst). Here's a hard copy of one of the replies I got on the bug report which suggests that the bug has been fixed and is on the 4 week internal test period by AMD:
"--- Comment #65 from pierre.boudier@amd.com pierre.boudier@amd.com 2011-08-22 10:38:28 CDT --- hi all,
I would like to clarify a little bit this discussion: - this bugzilla is not owned by AMD, and while we try to monitor it (along other sources), it is not possible for AMD to immediately detect and jump into reports - we actually noticed this when I wrote my first post (2011-08-10), and the fix was made internally on the 8/12 - the catalyst release cycle will branch our internal dev tree within 4 weeks, and will go into 4 weeks of QA before we make the driver public. - since engineering is not focused with release management, we usually can't commit to exact release data since that sometimes change (sometimes fixes are introduced earlier, sometimes deferred) - finally, the crux of the issue here is that gnome developers should have actually contacted AMD about this issue before releasing something which only works on nvidia.
we do appreciate constructive feedback and are committed to fix issues; linux is an important Os for AMD.
regards,
Pierre B."
Good news at last for some of us...
NM
Hi Nelson,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Nelson Marques nmo.marques@gmail.com wrote:
From the bug report I've filled a long time ago, it seems that ATI users will soon be able to enjoy GNOME3 with fglrx driver (catalyst). Here's a hard copy of one of the replies I got on the bug report which suggests that the bug has been fixed and is on the 4 week internal test period by AMD...
I've been running the fglrx driver on my ThinkPad (HD 6310) for nearly four months. GNOME Shell works as expected, but the Top Bar and its icons fail to display properly. The Top Bar ranges from white stripes to transparency, and the icons often display as a square of snow or white noise (static). In an earlier version the icons could be fixed by the activation of their pull-down menus (or simply mousing over them); that hasn't been the case with the last couple of versions.
My new issue has been my rtl9192ce wireless which requires the compat-wireless drivers; a kernel update from v0.5 to v0.7 three weeks ago did *not* have a corresponding compat-wireless upgrade. I got hands-on support from Frederic and Bruno at Desktop Summit to install two versions of the kernel, one with which I have a working wireless connection but fallback video mode, and the other (latest) to work with my installed fglrx driver with fully-functioning GNOME Shell. But that's an issue for another list.
Mike
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Michael Hill mdhillca@gmail.com wrote:
I've been running the fglrx driver on my ThinkPad (HD 6310) for nearly four months. GNOME Shell works as expected, but the Top Bar and its icons fail to display properly. The Top Bar ranges from white stripes to transparency, and the icons often display as a square of snow or white noise (static). In an earlier version the icons could be fixed by the activation of their pull-down menus (or simply mousing over them); that hasn't been the case with the last couple of versions.
Specifically (looking at it now), the top bar is striped, purple, pale blue and yellow (white-ish overall rather than black). 'Activities' and the notification icons are pale grey until I mouse over them, when they highlight properly. The app menu (Epiphany at the moment) appears as it should. The notification icons display correctly if I switch to and from High Contrast in the accessibility menu. This is with:
fglrx64_xpic_SUSE114-8.881-1.x86_64
My new issue has been my rtl9192ce wireless which requires the compat-wireless drivers; a kernel update from v0.5 to v0.7 three weeks ago did *not* have a corresponding compat-wireless upgrade. I got hands-on support from Frederic and Bruno at Desktop Summit to install two versions of the kernel, one with which I have a working wireless connection but fallback video mode, and the other (latest) to work with my installed fglrx driver with fully-functioning GNOME Shell.
Problem solved: today the compat-wireless package caught up to my kernel, so I'm able to use GNOME Shell and access the Internet at the same time using the default kernel.
Mike
Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 18:17 +0100, Nelson Marques a écrit :
"--- Comment #65 from pierre.boudier@amd.com pierre.boudier@amd.com 2011-08-22 10:38:28 CDT --- hi all,
I would like to clarify a little bit this discussion:
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- finally, the crux of the issue here is that gnome developers should have
actually contacted AMD about this issue before releasing something which only works on nvidia.
I find this statement very problematic, putting the blame on GNOME developers because of bugs in ATI driver. Moreover, with GNOME 3 being released since April 6th and AMD "discovering" the issue 4 months later (and it was present before final release..). GNOME people didn't report the issue to nvidia, users did and I'm pretty sure other users did too to AMD before August.
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