AMD Catalysit 12.2 (64bit)

[dboosalis]

Hi

I had Kubuntu 12.4 prerelease working with the amd (ati) catlysit driver, but then did several 12.4 updates. I think the latest kernel I have now is 3.2.18 (Sorry machine not in front of me now). Anyway I can get the login screen up, but as soon as I try to log in I get kicked out and resent back to the login. If I go to console mode and do a startX or init X I get errors. I recall seeing errors about not being able to find libGL (And sure enough I can't find it on my system).

Anyone have any advise on how to get Catalysi working with the latest Kubuntu/Linux 3.2.18 (I tried linux 3.2.17 and it did not work either. Anyone else with Catalyis 12.2 seen this issue ?

Thanks
David

[OneLine]

Fglrx

How did you install it ?
Have you tried to purge the fglrx ?
Are the opensource drivers working ?
Do you have any errors in the Xorg log ?

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

At here ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI )

1) Downloading the amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run
2) Compiling

sudo sh amd-driver-installer-12-2-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/precise

3) Installing the fglrx and fglrx-amdcccle (using local repo)

sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

Log of sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
Wed Mar 14 16:52:15 2012

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/71.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 218 MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? Selecting previously unselected package fglrx.
(Reading database ...
...
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 93310 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_8.950-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_8.950-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up fglrx (2:8.950-0ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/fglrx/ld.so.conf because link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf is broken.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/fglrx/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Loading new fglrx-8.950 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.2.0-18-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.2.0-18-generic
Done.

fglrx:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod.......

DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:8.950-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

4) Reboot
5) Test




From the Ubuntu+1 : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1937297


Open Source

1) Purging

sudo apt-get purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

Log of sudo apt-get purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
Wed Mar 14 17:48:18 2012

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libc6-i386 lib32gcc1 dkms
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
fglrx* fglrx-amdcccle*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 218 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ...
...
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 93588 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fglrx-amdcccle ...
Removing fglrx ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/pxpress/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/bin/amdcccle because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/amdcccle (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amdcccle.desktop because associated file /usr/share/fglrx/amdcccle.desktop (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amdccclesu.desktop because associated file /usr/share/fglrx/amdccclesu.desktop (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl32.icd (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/bin/amdupdaterandrconfig because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/amdupdaterandrconfig (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/bin/amdxdg-su because associated file /usr/lib/fglrx/bin/amdxdg-su (of link group x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) doesn't exist.
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules with a link.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/pxpress/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode.
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules with a link.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Purging configuration files for fglrx ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

2) Reboot

3) Testing

:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
...
GLX version: 1.4
...
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

[dboosalis]

Thanks for the reply to my Catalyst issue. I did indeed make a package and it worked. During the install it complained about a few packages not found . I just added them one at a time till they were all resolved. Now working with Catlysit Driver !!!