fglrx in raring

**Nemesis2012** · December 31st, 2012

Originally Posted by Xgen

Anybody got 12.12 working with the 3.8 kernel?

12.12 is a embedded Driver

Vi0l0 has a patch for catalyst 12.11 on kernal 3.8 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic....09006#p1209006

**SPK201** · January 1st, 2013

Since the fglrx driver doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity (only right-click menu and terminal can be opened), I'm going to upgrade to 13.04 and see if it solves the issue.

**Nemesis2012** · January 4th, 2013

Originally Posted by SPK201

Since the fglrx driver doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 12.10 with Unity (only right-click menu and terminal can be opened), I'm going to upgrade to 13.04 and see if it solves the issue.

what GPU you have?

**jfernyhough** · January 4th, 2013

Nice. The 3.8 patch has been applied to the edgers package:

Code:

fglrx-installer (2:9.010.12-0ubuntu1~xedgers~raring2) raring; urgency=low

    * New upstream release (12.12)
    * debian/dkms.conf.in,fix-build-kernel-3.8.patch:
     - Add support for Linux 3.8.
  -- Rico Tzschichholz <email address hidden>   Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:01:48 +0100

--edit
Looks to be working well with 3.8-rc2 from the mainline builds. It still has the "Unsupported hardware" watermark though, so you'll need to copy across /etc/ati/control as previously.

**bullemina** · January 5th, 2013

Hello

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I'm trying to install the latest beta referenced in posts 17 using the instructions in post 3, but I keep getting errors when I install .deb packages.
I'm running 13.04, 3.7.0-7-generic # 15-Ubuntu.

Trying to patch manually, also use the pre-patched file located in post 17, nothing I do works. Do you have any idea?

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up fglrx-dev (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.7.0-7-generic
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

**jfernyhough** · January 5th, 2013

That error message seemed to start a couple of driver releases ago and IFAICT occurs when building against a kernel not officially supported by AMD. The driver still works, though.

I'd recommend trying the edgers package. It works fine on my laptop (except for the watermark which is easy to fix).

**bullemina** · January 5th, 2013

I thank you for the positive response

Then I try with Edgers package.

**deri** · January 7th, 2013

fglrx:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.7.0-4-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod......

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up fglrx-dev (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.7.0-4-generic
modprobe: ../tools/modprobe.c:550: print_action: Assertion `kmod_module_get_initstate(m) == KMOD_MODULE_BUILTIN' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

**jverga** · January 7th, 2013

Been running Catalyst 12.12 on the 3.8 Mainline dailies for a few weeks now( I updated Vi0l0's and jfernyhough patches and made my own *.debs. Never fails to build fglrx module when updating teh kernel. Everything is signed and I use Catalyst 12.10 control- so zero watermarks.

If ok w/mod I'll post links for my fglrx_9.010-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb,fglrx-amdcccle_9.010-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb and fglrx-dev_9.010-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb. I always end up w/ massive troubles from xorg-edgers ppa (they do warn truthfully!).

My debs only work w/ kernel 3.8