Glad to hear that, Kurt. Hopefully your problem was just specific to your setup. If not, then this complicates things. The newer catalyst driver probably has a performance bug. Could be specific to your card, though. I'm getting almost 2000 FPS on glxgears, which is fine by me. (Although I've never tested it with the older driver.)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098561 Title: "Unsupported hardware" watermark appears when FGLRX is installed on 13.04 Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “fglrx-installer-updates” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The driver included with the package fglrx in 13.04 has an issue with unsupported hardware. The newer driver that ships with fglrx-updates seems to have corrected this issue. Please install the fglrx-updates package if possible. If you must stick with the older fglrx package, you may use one of the below workarounds. But be aware, you will not be able to use tools such as aticonfig. [Older Description]------------------------------------------------------------------- On the latest daily release of Raring, a watermark/overlay shows in the bottom-right corner of the screen when fglrx or fglrx-updates is installed. It reads "Unsupported hardware" and has the AMD logo above it on top of a semi-transparent black background. This watermark is essentially equivalent to the "Testing use only" that appears when the proprietary beta drivers from AMD's website are installed. Therefore, the same workaround applies: [Workaround] (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!) Step 1) Create and save shell script with the following contents: #!/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 Step 2) Make the script executable Step 3) Run the script Step 4) Log out and log back in ---- If the above workaround doesn't work for you, an alternative is to try the version of /etc/ati/control from the fglrx that shipped with Quantal. Step 1) Save a backup of the old control file, just in case -- sudo cp /etc/ati/control /etc/ati/control.watermark Step 2) Download the Quantal fglrx source package from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/fglrx- installer/2:9.000-0ubuntu3/+files/fglrx-installer_9.000.orig.tar.gz -- you will NOT need to build or install it. Step 3) Open that tar file with Archive Manager. Find etc/ati/control and extract it. Step 4) Copy the freshly extracted version of control to /etc/ati/control then restart your system. [Original Description]------------------------------------------------------------------- After upgrading to raring and installing the latest fglrx package from the archive I get a AMD branded overlay in the bottom RHS of the screen with the message 'Unsupported hardware'. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: fglrx-updates 2:9.010-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jan 11 13:27:06 2013 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-07 (3 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1098561/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
