Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME 3 and ATI
Hi, Looking at Phoronix, turns out Catalyst 11.4 for Linux was released today - am I right in thinking this is the equivalent to the fglrx packages in ATI's repo at www2.ati.com/suse/? If so, the packages in there (which is what I have been using) still have a builddate of 10/03/11 and are probably out of date now I'll be trying the v11.4 installer from AMD's site when I'm next at the machine in the hope that it'll work a little better Can't seem to find any changelogs for 11.4 yet though so this will be a shot in the dark Thanks for the help
Nelson Marques 04/27/11 8:52 PM >>> Hi,
I've filled that bug report. I don't see a much brighter future on ATI since in the last times they lost 2 very important people that were working on the Linux drivers (further info searchable on Phoronix). It could be nice that someone from our X.org team could contact them regarding those issues with GNOME3. Unity suffered from a few problems with ATI proprietary drivers also, but according to it's changelogs they appeared to be fixed now. At least the radeon DRM driver is working OK for me, though with default settings it overheats a lot my laptop (easilly worked out by forcing the low energy setting profile on rc.local). I'm not really sure if GNOME devs can help with this particular issue. ATI/AMD should be releasing a new driver in the upcoming days following their monthly releases schedule, lets wait and see. I'm also looking forward to see if can have some joy in the future with G3 and ATI. NM On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi All,
I'm having a heck of a time trying to get GNOME 3 running on a current generation iMac with its ATI Mobility 4670 graphics card
fglrx works but has some horrific issues with the activities bar (as covered here http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=99 ) and multiple monitors (no bug filed yet, but basically the second screen's output is horrifically corrupted)
The default radeon driver appears to be out of the question - kernel seems to lockup whenever the module is loaded. Some bugs floating about imply this is a kernel issue. This problem is so severe I need to add fglrx as an Add-On product during installation or else I can't get the install to continue after the file copy.
I've tried but I cant seem to get the radeonHD driver to work either - constantly complaining about No Screens Found.
I'm not having any issues on my nvidia or intel machines, really making me hate AMD/ATI now
Anyone got any ideas on how to get GNOME 3 working on this most frustrating bucket of bolts?
Ilmehtar from IRC here - finally got around to using these lists (Yes yes, I know, I took too long)
Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove
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Looking at Phoronix, turns out Catalyst 11.4 for Linux was released today - am I right in thinking this is the equivalent to the fglrx packages in ATI's repo at www2.ati.com/suse/?
I'm downloading the drivers and will test them after with G3. Within 20 minutes or so I'll report in about if 11.4 work or not. I would expect that the biggest change on this stack would be the support for x server 1.10. Couldn't find much relevant information also (did took a look at Ubuntu's package already). Yes, the Catalyst is fglrx, but since the update was today by AMD, I would suppose that it will take a few hours until Markus updates. Meanwhile I'll test this out. NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
I've done some further testing with the new ATI Drivers (Catalyst
11.4) and I start to believe that the problem isn't the drivers but
the software itself for 2 reasons:
1. The default gnome-shell theme (Adwaita?) has this problem, while
third party themes don't have this problem (corrupted activities bar).
I'm currently using this theme [1] and it doesn't display the problems
that the default theme has. The bar with theme[1] isn't corrupted.
2. Using the theme [1] or the original, after log in the icon are
corrupted. If we load gnome-tweak-tool and change the iconset the
icons start to be rendered normally.
I'm not sure if this can help anyone fixing this, but I'm starting to
believe that the problem isn't related to the ATI driver, but related
to code (the icons seem to point that way) and with the Adwaita
default gnome-shell theme (since third party themes don't really show
this issue, and yes they also use transparencies, which don't seem to
be problem here because only the 'activities' bar is having problems
with transparencies, while menu's and all the rest work ok).
Anyone can point a way to debug this? Maybe open a bug upstream?
NM
[1] - http://gnome-shell.deviantart.com/gallery/28078056
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Nelson Marques
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Looking at Phoronix, turns out Catalyst 11.4 for Linux was released today - am I right in thinking this is the equivalent to the fglrx packages in ATI's repo at www2.ati.com/suse/?
I'm downloading the drivers and will test them after with G3. Within 20 minutes or so I'll report in about if 11.4 work or not. I would expect that the biggest change on this stack would be the support for x server 1.10. Couldn't find much relevant information also (did took a look at Ubuntu's package already).
Yes, the Catalyst is fglrx, but since the update was today by AMD, I would suppose that it will take a few hours until Markus updates. Meanwhile I'll test this out.
NM
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