Re: point of information re Debian 8, gnome, and fglrx

2016-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:39:12AM -0500, jesse mckeown wrote: > > Now, I don't know if the debian 8 release notes vs. the AMD > documentation are even addressing the same thing or > orthogonal things, but I can't find mention of the status of this > issue in recenter debian mailing lists; > >

point of information re Debian 8, gnome, and fglrx

2016-02-23 Thread jesse mckeown
The release notes for debian 8, released in April of 2015, say https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#gnome-3d > ## 5.11. The GNOME desktop does not work with the AMD proprietary FGLRX driver > > Unlike other OpenGL drivers, the AMD FGLRX d

Re: Problems with wine and fglrx driver

2015-09-21 Thread artem_banschikov
I'm using debian testing/sid amd64+i386, fglrx-driver 15.7-3, wine-development 1.7.51-1. Applications were run from 32-bit wine prefix.

Problems with wine and fglrx driver

2015-09-20 Thread Артём Банщиков
Hello. I tried installing fglrx driver for my Radeon HD 6850. It installed and X.org ran properly. But when I try to run any windows application with wine, it falls immediately givimg me the message: [xcb] Extra reply data still left in queue [xcb] This is most likely caused by a broken X

Re: Jessie and fglrx-legacy [ThinkPad T400]

2015-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Maybe you'll find an answer here: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T400 No dice. I'm not totally sold on using fglrx-legacy on this if one of the radeon drivers will do 3d acceleration.

Re: Jessie and fglrx-legacy [ThinkPad T400]

2015-08-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you'll find an answer here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T400

Re: Jessie and fglrx-legacy

2015-08-28 Thread Lev Lazinskiy
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:02:26AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, I'm stumped. I've tried a couple ways now and I'm going around in > circles and tearing my fur out over this... what's the best approach to > getting 3D acceleration going on a ThinkPad T400? Can you let us know what you have tri

Jessie and fglrx-legacy

2015-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, I'm stumped. I've tried a couple ways now and I'm going around in circles and tearing my fur out over this... what's the best approach to getting 3D acceleration going on a ThinkPad T400?

Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 16-07-14 18:11, Dylan Bass schreef: > I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie repos. Any > reason why? It does not work with the latest Xorg: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754249 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753781#88 With r

Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/14 12:11 PM, Dylan Bass wrote: I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie repos. Any reason why? The fglrx driver is closed source. AMD have to provide one for for each version of X. If they haven't updated their driver, the Debian maintainers can't

Re: fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:11:12 -0600 Dylan Bass wrote: > I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie > repos. Any reason why? This is the way testing's working, re-read Debian docs. -- the Lord doesn't touch many people nowadays… priests take care

fglrx-driver removed from jessie

2014-07-16 Thread Dylan Bass
I noticed fglrx-driver has been removed only from the jessie repos. Any reason why?

Uninstalled fglrx drivers. Now laptop heats and fan is always noisy.

2014-01-06 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I updated some packages on my debian wheezy 7 (64 bit) using the command apt-get -u upgrade and after a reboot, I was on a blank screen. So I booted into recovery and ran startx, which was again a blank screen. So I uninstalled the fglrx drivers and I was able to boot back on gnome. But now the

System settings -fglrx disabled it?

2013-11-03 Thread Catherine Gramze
ation of a new video card. I suspect the installation of the Radeon Catalyst control panel, which allows you to control the video card settings, is the exact point it happened. Can anybody verify if fglrx-control disables system settings? I believe that is the only package I chose manually, the rest

Re: fglrx-driver missing on jessie

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-10-05 18:49 +0200, Enrico Polesel wrote: > I've just install debian jessie on a notebook and I'm not able to > install fglrx-driver (there are only the legacy version) > > According to packages.debian.org[1] that packages is not longer > available on jessie and I

fglrx-driver missing on jessie

2013-10-05 Thread Enrico Polesel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I've just install debian jessie on a notebook and I'm not able to install fglrx-driver (there are only the legacy version) According to packages.debian.org[1] that packages is not longer available on jessie and I don't want

fglrx driver and dkms with unsupported kernel

2013-07-11 Thread Wxcafé
he correct drivers. Like too often, the problem comes from proprietary drivers. I have to use fglrx, because i often do 3d work. The problem is, the fglrx module for dkms doesn't compile with 3.10.x, and therefore i can't have DRI (which depends on this module) which i need for my 3d work.

Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-07-10 Thread David Roguin
the 3.2.0-3 kernel installed and when I use the driver >> their everything works, nothing else is changed. So think that the >> fglrx driver and Xserver I have installed now work together. >> > I have a HD7700 (cape verde XT) running jessie with xserver-xorg version: > 1:7.7+

Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-06-25 Thread Luis Bandarra
On 24-06-2013 10:48, Max Linke wrote: I still have the 3.2.0-3 kernel installed and when I use the driver their everything works, nothing else is changed. So think that the fglrx driver and Xserver I have installed now work together. I have a HD7700 (cape verde XT) running jessie with xserver

Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-06-24 Thread Max Linke
I still have the 3.2.0-3 kernel installed and when I use the driver their everything works, nothing else is changed. So think that the fglrx driver and Xserver I have installed now work together. On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:28:35 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Catalyst versions only run with s

Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Catalyst versions only run with some versions of X and some cards are only provided by some versions of Catalyst. Current "Catalyst doesn't support xorg-server 1.14. Catalyst < 12.10 and Catalyst Legacy do not support xorg-server 1.13. Catalyst < 12.6 doesn't support xorg-server 1.12." - https://w

fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-06-23 Thread Max Linke
Hi The 7770 is currently not supported by the open radon driver in testing so I tried to go with fglrx. I follow the instructions in the debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary and created a xorg.conf with 'aticonfig --initial'. When ever I try to start X now with fglrx turne

Re: Diagnosing kernel panic involving fglrx

2013-06-04 Thread Ari Epstein
gt; audio was not working, and figured it was a limitation in the fglrx driver > and it seemed otherwise to run well. Starting yesterday, however, I have > frequent but not consistent kernel panics during the boot process that seem > to involve support for that feature. Sometimes it boots wit

Re: no diversion fglrx

2013-02-19 Thread lina
On Tuesday 19,February,2013 05:53 PM, lina wrote: > > # aptitude reinstall glx-diversions > > shows: > > No diversion 'diversion of > /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to > /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libglx.so.dbg by glx-diversions', none removed. > No diversion 'diversion of

Re: no diversion fglrx

2013-02-19 Thread lina
# aptitude reinstall glx-diversions shows: No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libglx.so.dbg by glx-diversions', none removed. No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted

no diversion fglrx

2013-02-19 Thread lina
Hi, under wheezy, I tried (already 8 or 9 times) to install the fglrx driver. Yesterday I build the new kernel 3.7.9, also update the xserver-* related. Now chocked with the following error: No diversion 'diversion of /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2 by fglrx-glx-ia32', none removed. #

Re: Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!

2013-01-14 Thread Adrian Fita
On 14/01/13 13:00, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I might share my experience regarding the FGLRX drivers, as > they are still widely used, possibly also by many on this list. > > [...] > > So, my advise to any Debian user would be: If you want a happy

Re: Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!

2013-01-14 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:27:25PM CET, Ralf Mardorf said: > I can confirm that on Linux 3D support by modern versions of X FLOSS > drivers is very good, especially for ATI cards the proprietary driver > isn't maintained for not really old cards on Linux. > > Even nouveau for NVIDI graphics toda

Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!

2013-01-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
Hi, I thought I might share my experience regarding the FGLRX drivers, as they are still widely used, possibly also by many on this list. I own a Thinkpad W500 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card. When I installed Debian Squeeze on it, I didn't seriously conside

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > The open source drivers work better (in terms of integration with the X > server) because the maintainers can adjust them to the latest changes in X > and other graphic software. Unfortunately due to the problems noted above, > they can't keep u

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
board and sometimes i like to play old good windows games with help of "wine" while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. Unfortun

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Roman V.Leon.
windows games with help of "wine" while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. Unfortunately this driver doesn't allow me to play He

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
windows games with help of "wine" while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. Unfortunately this driver doesn't allow me to play

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Rosenberg
ws games with help of "wine" >> while my little daughter is sleeping. But recently a real disaster >> had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after >> update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. >> Unfortunately this driver doe

Re: fglrx driver

2012-10-10 Thread Darac Marjal
ping. But recently a real disaster > had happened, ATI dropped a support of Radeon 4xxx cards and after > update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. > Unfortunately this driver doesn't allow me to play Heroes of MM V. I > tried to return to previous version of fgl

fglrx driver

2012-10-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
cards and after update i was oblige to install a radeon driver instead of fglrx. Unfortunately this driver doesn't allow me to play Heroes of MM V. I tried to return to previous version of fglrx-driver(from snapshots.debian.org repo), but didn't succeed in it because driver depe

X freeze with proprietary fglrx driver on radeon HD 5970

2012-10-03 Thread henry wasker
Hi, I can't get to install the proprietary driver "fglrx" with ATI Radeon HD 5970 on Debian Squeeze. After the installation with ATI Catalyst 12-8 and a reboot, from the stage of GDM, the screen is freezing with a lot of little squares appearing on X, mouse is locking and total

Re: AMD FirePro M3900 versus fglrx-driver

2012-07-26 Thread Esteban Monge
> Hi, folks! > > I'm Cesar, from Brazil. I've been using Debian Squeeze on my desktop: > it has a ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] so that > fglrx-driver works perfectly. But, I'm gonna buy a brand new laptop HP > Elitebook 8460w very soon

AMD FirePro M3900 versus fglrx-driver

2012-07-26 Thread César Rocha
Hi, folks! I'm Cesar, from Brazil. I've been using Debian Squeeze on my desktop: it has a ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] so that fglrx-driver works perfectly. But, I'm gonna buy a brand new laptop HP Elitebook 8460w very soon so that machine has a AMD FirePr

AMD FirePro M3900 versus fglrx-driver

2012-07-26 Thread César Rocha
Hi, folks! I'm Cesar, from Brazil. I've been using Debian Squeeze on my desktop: it has a ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] so that fglrx-driver works perfectly. But, I'm gonna buy a brand new laptop HP Elitebook 8460w very soon so that machine has a AMD FirePr

Re: fglrx-driver: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-06-18 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Hi Paul, I faced the same problem of blinking cursor when using the below 3 different drivers : fglrx-driver 1:12-6~beta-1 amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run amd-driver-installer-12-3-x86.x86_64.run I then followed Issam's recommendation as below to workaround the issue and g

Re: fglrx and specific catalyst driver versions

2012-04-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:08:02 -0400, Allington wrote in message : > Hello, > > I am looking for specific catalyst driver versions for my ATI graphics > card. Each driver has it's varying performance affect on linux with > some newer versions actually degrading performance for my 5970. I > would l

Re: fglrx and specific catalyst driver versions

2012-04-12 Thread Camaleón
versions actually degrading performance for my 5970. I would like > to have some options if the one I choose isn't functioning well for my > tasks. (...) > Am I correct in assuming the debian fglrx-driver 1:12-3-1 is the > equivalent of the AMD Catalyst 12.3 fglrx 8.95 > and th

fglrx and specific catalyst driver versions

2012-04-11 Thread Allington Pippin
ell for my tasks. Here are some examples from the AMD site. For the 11.6 Catalyst: fglrx 8.861-110524a-119606C-ATI For the 12.3 Catalyst: fglrx 8.95-120214a-133662E-ATI http://developer.amd.com/download/ccc/p ... fault.aspx<http://developer.amd.com/download/ccc/pages/default.aspx> Looking th

bug in fglrx driver

2012-01-09 Thread Sql Sql
I'm using Debian Squeeze (new to linux) with the ATI fglrx-driver installed along with pm-utils. Sometimes, when my computer comes back up from suspend mode, it just hangs at gdm login screen. When I kill the xsession (ctrl + alt + f1), it goes into console mode. After login to console

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
[dropping CC to the bug, at least for now] On Du, 04 dec 11, 23:24:48, lina wrote: > Sincerely looking for advice about following error: Hi Lina, We are glad to help, but it is not easy to do so via e-mail. It is very important that: - you are patient :) - you describe your problem as accuratel

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-04, lina wrote: > Sincerely looking for advice about following error: > > more Xorg.0.log | grep WW > UUOM ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread lina
ill exist. > >> >> [ 16136.195] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx >> [ 16136.200] (WW) Unsupported ASIC ID 1002:675F:: in control file >> [ 16136.200] (WW) Unsupported ASIC ID 1002:675F:: in control file >> [ 16136.200] (WW) fglrx: No ma

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread Chris Brennan
not > exist. > This one can be safely ignored, unless you are looking for a Russian font set. > [ 16136.195] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx > [ 16136.200] (WW) Unsupported ASIC ID 1002:675F:: in control file > [ 16136.200] (WW) Unsupported ASI

[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread lina
Sincerely looking for advice about following error: more Xorg.0.log | grep WW (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 16136.164] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. [ 16136.195] (WW) Falling back to old probe method

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-22 Thread Richard
to build the module during > > boot up. > > if the latter, how ? > > I don't care about the ATI package, only the Debian one. > > > there doesn't appear to be a dkms build log in /var/log. > > There was no output from synaptic when installing the fglrx dkms

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
e about the ATI package, only the Debian one. > there doesn't appear to be a dkms build log in /var/log. > There was no output from synaptic when installing the fglrx dkms package. From what I recall during installation there is a "show terminal output" or similar. Anyway, for o

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-21 Thread Richard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:36:45 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:42:12 +, Richard wrote: > > > The fglrx module is not getting built, by dkms or by me going to > > /usr/src/fglrx-11-11 and running make. The results of that action are:- > > make -C /l

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-21 Thread Richard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:42:53 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 21 nov 11, 16:42:12, Richard wrote: > > Hi, > > The fglrx module is not getting built, by dkms or by me going to > > /usr/src/fglrx-11-11 and running make. > > The results of that action are:- >

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 nov 11, 16:42:12, Richard wrote: > Hi, > The fglrx module is not getting built, by dkms or by me going to > /usr/src/fglrx-11-11 and running make. > The results of that action are:- > make -C /lib/modules/3.0.0-1-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/fglrx-11-11 modules > make

Re: FGLRX build problem

2011-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:42:12 +, Richard wrote: > The fglrx module is not getting built, by dkms or by me going to > /usr/src/fglrx-11-11 and running make. The results of that action are:- > make -C /lib/modules/3.0.0-1-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/fglrx-11-11 > modules make: ***

FGLRX build problem

2011-11-21 Thread Richard
Hi, The fglrx module is not getting built, by dkms or by me going to /usr/src/fglrx-11-11 and running make. The results of that action are:- make -C /lib/modules/3.0.0-1-amd64/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/fglrx-11-11 modules make: *** /lib/modules/3.0.0-1-amd64/build: No such file or directory. Stop

Re: xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-30 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the > xserver-xorg-core was updated. > > my fglrx-driver was removed, > > when I tried to install, it's reported: > > fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not &g

Re: xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/09/2011 05:33, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the > xserver-xorg-core was updated. > > my fglrx-driver was removed, > > when I tried to install, it's reported: > > fglrx-driver depends on xorg-vide

xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-29 Thread lina
Hi, When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the xserver-xorg-core was updated. my fglrx-driver was removed, when I tried to install, it's reported: fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not avaiable. then I checked package xserver

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:31:07 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Tvtime uses x.org xv extension. In the past support for that extension > was not good at least for AMD64 port. So I just wonder does it work > nowadays with fgrlx driver in squeeze ? I don't use tvtime, but I do use Xv with Radeon on

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-12 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 09/10/2011 08:20 PM, � wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? I don't see why not :-? Tvtime uses x.org xv extension. In the past support for that extension was not good at least for AMD64 port

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:30:30 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:20, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> When it comes to the closed source driver I like nvidia cards more than >> ATI but that's just a personal POV > > What does the POV mean? It's a jargon acronym for "Point Of View". Greet.. ee

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread lina
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:20, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > >> Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? > > I don't see why not :-? > > That is, it can have problems but no more than other propri

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? I don't see why not :-? That is, it can have problems but no more than other proprietary drivers, like nvidia. > I have to replace the old nvidia graphics ca

tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-09 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
Hi list. Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? I have to replace the old nvidia graphics card and just wonder whether to replace it with ATI HD5450. Thanks in advance. Best regards Georgi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

squeeze hard freeze with fglrx & invisible cursor switching user

2011-06-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I have the following configuration: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz ASUSTeK P8P67 Motherboard ATI Technologies Inc Redwood PRO [Radeon HD 5500 Series] video card. 8GB of RAM Debian 6.0.2 (squeeze) AMD64 I have two problems with fglrx. (The first listed is definitely worse.) 1. After

Terrible Compiz performance with radeon or fglrx + Radeon HD 4500

2011-05-31 Thread David Sanders
Hi All, I've just replaced my old Dell Studio 1735 with a newer Dell Studio 1745. This comes with a Radeon HD 4500, and I'm having problems with both "radeon" and "fglrx" drivers. Now using Debian Testing, which is up-to-date. Using "radeon" I g

Terrible Compiz performance with radeon or fglrx + Radeon HD 4500

2011-05-31 Thread David Sanders
Hi All, I've just replaced my old Dell Studio 1735 with a newer Dell Studio 1745. This comes with a Radeon HD 4500, and I'm having problems with both "radeon" and "fglrx" drivers. Now using Debian Testing, which is up-to-date. Using "radeon" I g

Re: Radeon fglrx performance gone in Testing AMD64

2011-04-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/04/2011 09:26, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > Somewhere this week the video card performance dropped spectacularly. > All drag and drop operations and (web) page scrolling are suddenly > excruciating slow. Glxgears went from > 5000 to 60 frames per second (I > know, glxgears is no benchmark

Radeon fglrx performance gone in Testing AMD64

2011-04-14 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Somewhere this week the video card performance dropped spectacularly. All drag and drop operations and (web) page scrolling are suddenly excruciating slow. Glxgears went from > 5000 to 60 frames per second (I know, glxgears is no benchmark). Also my screen is not painted correctly: it seems th

Re: Questions on Installing fglrx

2011-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:06:18AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > According to the log file I have the following errors: > > $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed > (EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed > (EE) fglrx(0): atidd

Re: Questions on Installing fglrx

2011-03-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 15 mar 11, 09:06:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >> $ aticonfig --initial >> Found fglrx primary device section >>  Unable to find any supported Screen sections > > Assuming you followed those steps *

Re: Questions on Installing fglrx

2011-03-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 15 mar 11, 09:06:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > $ aticonfig --initial > Found fglrx primary device section > Unable to find any supported Screen sections Assuming you followed those steps *exactly* and there were no errors, remove xorg.conf and retry the 'aticonfi

Questions on Installing fglrx

2011-03-15 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, I decided to use the fglrx driver on my linux squeeze system as the 3D seemed a bit slow on my machine. Here is my setup: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] I followed the steps for squeeze from the page: http

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
o I made a dumb mistake of trying to > >> set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. > >You can force an update with "sudo /etc/dron.daily/mlocate". > >Confirm that the cruft is indeed left behind. In which case, you > >might > >wish to inquire about the raptu

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
o I made a dumb mistake of trying to > >> set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. > >I'd divert/rename/tar off the relevant files, test to see if the > >Universe implodes, and if it doesn't, not stress life too much > >afterward. > > We don't have Univer

Re: Fglrx has left lint on my squeeze!

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 03. 2011 01:49:58 je Karl Vogel napisal(a): And the award for "Subject line that sounds dirtiest without actually being dirty" goes to... Well, thanx, but you're being too generous. Can't take credit for the names 'fglrx', 'lint' or &

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 03. 2011 06:00:18 je Dr. Ed Morbius napisal(a): on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > Upon installing Squeeze weeks ago I made a dumb mistake of trying to > set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. Via a Debian pac

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:03 Thu 10 Mar, Klistvud (quotati...@aliceadsl.fr) wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > Upon installing Squeeze weeks ago I made a dumb mistake of trying to > set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. Via a Debian package? > I then set up the free radeon driver and am ver

Re: Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Sorry for the double post; Balsa mail having a fit again... -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loonix User #481801 Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Fglrx left lint on my Squeeze box!

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! Upon installing Squeeze weeks ago I made a dumb mistake of trying to set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. I then set up the free radeon driver and am very satisfied with it. However, the attempted fglrx install seems to have left some spurious files scattered ove

Fglrx has left lint on my squeeze!

2011-03-10 Thread Klistvud
Howdie, fellow Debianites! Upon installing Squeeze weeks ago I made a dumb mistake of trying to set up the #@%&! fglrx driver. I then set up the free radeon driver and am very satisfied with it. However, the attempted fglrx install seems to have left some spurious files scattered ove

Re: regarding fglrx installation in squeeze.

2011-03-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
re not > there.? This step is necessary so that you can switch to fglrx *without rebooting*, because on the next reboot there will already be other mechanisms in place to prevent those modules from loading at all. Hope this answers your question, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian

regarding fglrx installation in squeeze.

2011-03-05 Thread Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος
I followed the steps in : http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary and it was successfull. But # modprobe -r radeon drm didnt work . So is this step necessary , since when we reboot those modules are not there.? aprekates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: fglrx blacked iceweasel?

2010-07-01 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 17:17 -0700, Frank Miles wrote: > Yesterday's update included the non-free fglrx driver. At least > I think that is what is causing iceweasel to erratically blacken/erase/wipe > many of the pages. > > Are others experiencing this? The browser has beco

fglrx blacked iceweasel?

2010-06-30 Thread Frank Miles
Yesterday's update included the non-free fglrx driver. At least I think that is what is causing iceweasel to erratically blacken/erase/wipe many of the pages. Are others experiencing this? The browser has become almost completely unusable. Or was there some other update affecting the br

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-18 15:20 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvid

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-18 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer >>> drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with >>> the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia. >> >> Can you point me to more information on thi

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 19:00 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx.  So what graphics card do >> you have? > > I'm sorry, my card is a Mobility Radeon 3430. > >> There is

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx.  So what graphics card do > you have? I'm sorry, my card is a Mobility Radeon 3430. > There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer > drivers for both

Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-17 18:34 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote: > I have looked for info on this but haven't found any. Since a couple of > days I can't boot X anymore with my usual nvidia drivers setup. In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx. So what graphics card do you have? > All

Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
I have looked for info on this but haven't found any. Since a couple of days I can't boot X anymore with my usual nvidia drivers setup. All I get is a blank screen with no way out, not even CTRL+ALT+Fn. My system is testing, updated daily. Is there any known issue causing this? Thanks. -- T

Re: Aargh! I hate the fglrx driver!

2010-05-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyone have any idea why compiz won't work with newer fglrx drivers? I don't. But I have use the `radeon' driver with compiz. Have you tried it? It's better for your karma and won't suffer from those kinds of problems you're experiencing. Stef

Aargh! I hate the fglrx driver!

2010-05-17 Thread B. Alexander
I upgraded my machine at work today, and among other things that were installed, aptitude upgraded the kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64) as well as the fglrx packages. I had the 9-11 held, but aptitude upgraded it anyway. And with the combination of packages, I was no longer able to roll back to

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
ot;effects" enabled) machines running Sid's fglrx at the moment and they seem fine, glxinfo and fglrxinfo doesn't spit any error, xorg logs doesn't contain errors, and the few OpenGl stuff I just tried are working fine (namely "Torcs" and "xmoto"). Hi everyo

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread Carlos Miranda Molina (Mstaaravin)
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, what exactly is broken ? > As a workaround you could use Sid packages if Squeeze's are in bad shape. I > have two mostly Squeeze (amd64, kde with desktop "effects" enabled) machines > running Sid

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 03/05/2010 11:43, Camaleón a écrit : On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any workaround I can do? I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550 card), but I just saw this bug saying

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread B. Alexander
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: > This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Agreed. Specifically, the fglrx driver. I don't have problems with nvidia, but when fglrx-9-12 came out, it broke compiz, so I reinstalled 9-11, and put it on hold. I

Re: fglrx driver in debian squeeze in limbo - any ideas?

2010-05-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any > workaround I can do? > > I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550 > card), but I just saw this bug > saying the packages

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