fglrx in raring

[jfernyhough]

New package for 12.11 coming shortly:

fglrx-installer (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/dkms.conf.in,
    replace-archdata.acpi_handle-with-acpi_node.handle.patch:
    - Add support for Linux 3.8 (LP: #1095755).
      Thanks to Robert Hooker for the patch.
  * debian/substvars:
    - Remove versioned dependency on xserver-xorg-core.
  * debian/10fglrx.in, debian/rules:
    - Fix paths which prevented OpenGL operations on hybrid systems
      on amd64 (LP: #1068661). Thanks to Nick Andrik for the patch.

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:09 +0100

[Nemesis2012]

New package for 12.11 coming shortly:

fglrx-installer (2:9.010-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/dkms.conf.in,
    replace-archdata.acpi_handle-with-acpi_node.handle.patch:
    - Add support for Linux 3.8 (LP: #1095755).
      Thanks to Robert Hooker for the patch.
  * debian/substvars:
    - Remove versioned dependency on xserver-xorg-core.
  * debian/10fglrx.in, debian/rules:
    - Fix paths which prevented OpenGL operations on hybrid systems
      on amd64 (LP: #1068661). Thanks to Nick Andrik for the patch.

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:12:09 +0100

it gave me the unsupported hardware watermark on a HD 6950

[MadNachos]

it gave me the unsupported hardware watermark on a HD 6950

I get that as well with my HD 6870..seems pretty good otherwise.

edit: I found that the old fix to remove it still works fine, but make a backup copy of fglrx_drv.so to be safe.

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

[Nemesis2012]

I get that as well with my HD 6870..seems pretty good otherwise.

edit: I found that the old fix to remove it still works fine, but make a backup copy of fglrx_drv.so to be safe.

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

its not letting me see my temp as well

[bullemina]

its not letting me see my temp as well

I can se my temp. 7770

[jfernyhough]

I get that as well with my HD 6870..seems pretty good otherwise.

edit: I found that the old fix to remove it still works fine, but make a backup copy of fglrx_drv.so to be safe.

#!/bin/sh
DRIVER=/usr/lib/fglrx/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do
sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER
done

Or you could just replace /etc/ati/control with a release version?

[MadNachos]

Or you could just replace /etc/ati/control with a release version?

Are you asking? 'Cus I don't know.

[jfernyhough]

Apologies. Instead of manually binary patching the driver you can just replace the control file which tells the driver which card IDs are supported. Given that the latest driver is based on a driver for embedded devices most normal desktop parts aren't supported by that driver. Replacing the control file with one from a desktop release simply replaces the compatible ID list.

In theory there may be incompatibilities between the beta driver releases and unsupported devices, which is why you get the watermark, but in practice the drivers have been pretty much the same.

[bettlebrox]

Will these drivers work with older ATI graphics card such as the Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series?

Thanks!

[jfernyhough]

Will these drivers work with older ATI graphics card such as the Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series?

No. There are not any fglrx drivers for cards older than the 5000-series which work with xserver 1.13.

If you want fglrx you'll have to stick with Precise; if you want to run Raring you can use the open-source drivers (which should by now perform about as well as well as the proprietary ones for most stuff).