Fedora 8: fglrx & GLX applications (AIGLX included)

Thetargos · #1 14th November 2007, 08:31 AM

I'm not sure this is a bug or an isolated incident (maybe something in my setup?). The problem is that I just installed Fedora 8 into my girlfriend's laptop and it has a Radeon X1100 (RS485). After installing the fgrlx drivers, there's something odd... I tried to get Compiz running, but there seemed to be a problem with AIGLX, looking at the log a number of warnings only stated that some modes were not available, odd indeed. Upon trying to get more information with rutine commands like glxinfo, something even odder happened: the CPU usage went over the roof, and no info was displayed. However fglrxinfo DID show something, the usual and expected output. Another thing that was odd: glxgears. Sure not a true "benchmark" by any standards, but at least an indication that GLX is working, except for two things: missing rendering (white screen) and painfully slow "FPS" (14), however, there's something still stranger. One might think that something might be wrong with the drivers, right? But then why when running fgl_glxgears, it renders just fine, at the expected speed.

I've looked at the files, but I can't find anything wrong with the configuration. Another thing extremely odd is that amdcccle doesn't open eithe with the error message:

Code:

amdcccle: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: La declaración `c->xlib.lock' no se cumple.

Translation: The declaration --- is not met

Here's the Xorg.conf file:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option      "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

leigh123linux · #2 14th November 2007, 10:49 AM

The ATI 8.42 driver is a load of crap and doesn't work properly .

Quote:

amdcccle: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: La declaración `c->xlib.lock' no se cumple.

Have you tried installing libX11 and libxcb from development to see if it will help ?

Thetargos · #3 14th November 2007, 06:10 PM

Quote:

The ATI 8.42 driver is a load of crap and doesn't work properly .

Well, that's kind of obvious by now. I wonder if the Radeon driver supports this chip, and would allow me to at least test compiz on F8...

The strange thing is that it DID work with Fedora 7.

leigh123linux · #4 14th November 2007, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thetargos

Well, that's kind of obvious by now. I wonder if the Radeon driver supports this chip, and would allow me to at least test compiz on F8...

The strange thing is that it DID work with Fedora 7.

The new radeonhd driver might

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...?buildID=21511

Thetargos · #5 14th November 2007, 08:01 PM

I'm currently using the Radeon driver for the time being, I'm not sure if I'm missing something in the config, for example the Modules sectoin has vanished, and also the DRI section (odd). Might these be Xorg changes for the version in Werewolf?

jdeslip · #6 16th November 2007, 02:12 AM

I also have the same issue you have with amdcccle on a radeon mobile laptop - I installled libx11 and libxcd and they did not help. I also downgraded my xserver as Leigh suggested in another thread and that did not work.

compiz --replace still throws and error and amdccle still doesnt' work

Thetargos · #7 16th November 2007, 06:21 AM

What about glxinfo? Do you see any output from it?

jdeslip · #8 16th November 2007, 08:03 AM

It says direct rendering is on. I can post the rest when I am at work again.

Thetargos · #9 16th November 2007, 09:40 AM

The problem with AMDCCCLE has nothing to do with the actual driver, as far as I know, anyway, but rather that they built it for older libs, there's a whole thread dedicated to that problem at the Phoronix forums. So you are able to run GLX apps (glxgears, OpenGL screensavers, etc)?

jdeslip · #10 16th November 2007, 08:54 PM

I think I got the dirver and packages working. No one has amdcccle working as far as I can tell