[EN] ATI Catalyst(fglrx) on Siduction?

[timc]

Is installing the ATI proprietary driver fglrx supported on Siduction? There is a section in the Bluewater manual on the nVidia proprietary driver, but nothing similar for ATI.

The reason I ask is because my HD6770 card runs very hot with the open source radeon driver. I have tested this in Ubuntu, Sabayon, and Arch and my card runs about 15-20C cooler with fglrx. The fan also runs slower, consequently.

In Siduction, I have attempted to install the driver downloaded directly from AMD, but I had conflicts both with the 3.4 kernel and Xorg. I also tried installing it with the smxi scripts. However, I have fglrx running successfully on Sabayon and Arch Linux with kernel 3.4 and Xorg 1.12.

Tim

[OppaErich]

AFAIK: fglrx does not work with the current xserver. So it is _pointless_ to install that driver. But towo is the expert, I'm sure he'll chime in soon.

[towo]

fglrx 12.6 supports xserver 1.12.x but the kernel 3.4 is not supported by fglrx. Btw many users has told, that fglrx 12.6 does not work in 64bit at the moment.

[timc]

Thanks. I will not try to push my question but, like I said, I do have Catalyst 12.6 working with Xorg 1.12 on Arch Linux with 3.4.2 kernel 64-bit. I need to check the exact versions I have on Sabayon 9, but it is also a 3.4 64-bit kernel.

I will wait, patiently..

Tim

[towo]

Since i don't use fglrx i can only tell, what users have sayed.
Maybe th 64bit problem only exist in debian.

[timc]

Ok, thank you, towo.

Tim

[timc]

I believe I have found the solution, but it is somewhat complicated and I am not sure I want to mess with it. It involves making sure to have the exact correct version of xserver-xorg-core and "pinning" it so it does not get updated. What a mess.

These instructions are for Debian sid, so I assume they would also work for Siduction.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/fglrx-driver

http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

Tim

[towo]

Again, the xserver in sid is not the problem for fglrx in sid, since
fglrx 12.6-beta is in sid.
You can't use fglrx on kernels > 3.3.x and in siduction we have 3.4.4 at the moment.
If you have running fglrx in Arch with linux 3.4.x, then for sure the fglrx-kernel-module is patched, otherwise it would not work.

[ralul]

simple minds like positive expressions:
Stick with Debian Wheezy Linux-3.2 and fglrx-beta without needles and pins.

[timc]

Ok, thanks again, towo and ralul. I give up.

Tim

[timc]

I have at least found a workaround for the open source driver making the ATI video card run very hot:

Code: [Select]

echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41762

My card is now running about 15C cooler.

Tim

[ralul]

Yes, put this command into your /etc/rc.local

[lizbeth]

There is a AMD Catalyst Driver You can download from the AMD Site.  There's 12.10 and 12.11 Beta Drivers that can be used with 64bit and kernel 3.6.  I'm running the Liquorix kernel and Catalyst 12.10 without a problem.  If you want 12.10, in a terminal:

wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.zip
unzip amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64.zip
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-10-x86.x86_64.run


If you want 12.11 Beta go here:

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.11-beta-x86.x86_64.zip

unzip it then open a terminal:

sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-11-beta-x86.x86_64.run

Enjoy!

[agaida]

This is not ubuntu, this is sid. So most of the year the prop. drivers are broken badly. Please recommend prop. drivers directly from ati only if you are able and willing to fix a lot of broken systems.

[lizbeth]

I'm not running ubuntu, I'm running sid on lmde with the liquorix 3.6 kernel and i have an amd radeon chipset.  The 12.10 Catalyst is NOT a beta driver.