Bug 331790

Summary:	Driver installed from official directions (http://en.opensuse.org/ATI) is not recommended by AMD
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Adam Kirchhoff <adamk>
Component:	X11 3rd Party Driver	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Xorg log file.

Description Adam Kirchhoff 2007-10-08 11:55:09 UTC

The 8.41 drivers installed from the official fglrx repo (and, hence, the one-click install) is not recommended by AMD for any non-Radeon HD card.  I have an PCIe x850, and AMD officially lists 8.40.4 as the recommended driver.  This driver is, in fact, completely broken on AGP r400/r500 cards (ie. and AGP x700 like I have at work).  8.41 should only be installed on radeon HD cards (ie the 2400/2600/2900 cards).  Rumor has it that the next driver release (8.42) will support all r300, r400, r500, and r600 cards but, till then, there are different drivers for r300-r500 and r600 cards.

The 8.41.7 driver crashes X on my machine (with the x850), though I can't be sure that it's due to the fact that 8.41.7 is technically unsupported on my machine as I have not tried 8.40 yet:

http://68.45.180.45/Xorg.0.log

Adam

Comment 1 Adam Kirchhoff 2007-10-08 11:58:10 UTC

Created attachment 176785 [details]
Xorg log file.


Uploaded Xorg.0.log as an attachment.

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-08 12:10:17 UTC

Stable support (including FireGL/FireMV) for non-Radeon HD cards is expected to happen with 8.43 again. The ATI RPMs will be updated to 8.43 once it's available (still this year). For now manually install the 8.40 driver. There are no plans to provide two different driver package combos for the 8.41/8.42 driver time frame.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 326473 ***

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-08 12:20:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #1 from Adam Kirchhoff)
> Created an attachment (id=176785) [details]
> Xorg log file.
> 
> 
> Uploaded Xorg.0.log as an attachment.

I've seen this before. It seemed to be a configuration issue, since it didn't happen when using aticonfig. Unfortunately I needed to gave up on investigating this issue, since this was simply not possibe via Bugzilla without access to
a machine with such a card. :-( Unfortunately I don't have a X850 card for testing available ...

Comment 4 Adam Kirchhoff 2007-10-08 12:31:59 UTC

I'll try recreating my xorg.conf file with aticonfig and let you know how I make out.

Adam

Comment 5 Adam Kirchhoff 2007-10-08 13:55:26 UTC

I remember now.  It's the modelines.  The fglrx driver crashes whenever custom modelines are used.

Adam

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-08 14:16:52 UTC

Ok. This should only happen when DDC is not working and therefore SaX2 thinks it needs to create a Modeline. :-( This issue will be fixed by the next RPM driver update on the ATI server.