Arch Linux

Since 9.4 catalyst is no longer compatible with my old Radeon card. All new releases will be UNTESTED. If someone with newer Ati card wants to adopt this pkg - post here and I will orphan pkg :)

thanks for your fast reply - I updated to xorg-server 1.6.0 and for the first time the open source drivers seem to work nice on my system :-)

Catalyst-utils are kernel independent, as they always were. Reuploaded pkg with bumped pkgrel - this should refres everyhing on server, so the pkg should work now :)
ps. Catalyst-utils-old will not work withs xderver 1.6 nor this driver will.

I can't get this to build - first catalyst-utils-old are for the stock kernel and second checksum for flush_tlb_page.patch is wrong plus there is something wrong with the 2.6.29.diff - it does not seem to find any of the files to patch - or - am I missing something??

Updated to catalyst 9.3 with catalyst-utils-old as dep. Patch for 2.6.29 added (taken from catalyst-old pkg), but commented out s kernel26-ice is still in 2.6.28 version :)

I think you should put catalyst-utils-old as dependency and catalyst-ice to be upgraded to 9.3. 9.4 was going good, but recent upgrades borke it for me, so I guess is safer to wait for 9.4 official release.

I haven't tested it with the old xorg-server yet so I can't say anything about this.

Is backward-compatible? How stable is 9.4 beta? Will it work with xserver 1.4 and 15 too?

You'r right! 9.2 is currently the official driver!
9.4 is a beta version only released in ubuntu with support for the xorg-server 1.6.0
so unless you want to use [testing]/xorg-server you don't have to upgrade the pkg!
btw. the patch for kernel 2.6.29 support, in case kernel26-ice gets an upgrade:
http://liquorix.net/patches/FGLRX-2.6.29-9.2-5.diff

9.2 is still newest official Catalyst for Linux. Am I missing something?

Patch was correct, checksum in pkgbuild was wrong :) Corrected now.

is the flush_tlb_page.patch correct?
my 'makepkg -g' gave me
md5sums=('3ef8f805be93eede480f56eaa4e3bee1'
'21b9fd7b73d81769916ae3ea8917e145')

corrected

there is source http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-9-2-x86.x86_64.run in the PKGBUILD and there should be http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-9.2-x86.x86_64.run instead.

According to arch official catalyst, x86-64 driver is broken. So I cannot guarantee it will work ;)

Removed pkgver specific dependency, as suggested. Pkg should work with older/newer catalyst-utils :)

You should get rid of the catalyst-utils>=9.1 dependency, as the package does not exsist for x86_64 systems - actually the old catalyst-utils (8.12-1) work fine over here ;-)

updated to kernel-ice-2.6.28

The previous mistake may generate an error when upgrading stock kernel. If encountered, please force upgrade of stock kernel (pacman -Sf kernel26) and then reinstall catalyst-ice :)

Should be ok now - I've missed one line in .install file, that was pointing to stock kernel, instead of ice :) No need for reinstalling pkg, but you should remove earlier symlink, it should work fine without it :)

hi blasse

you made my day there :) it works nice - I was waiting for someone knowledgeable enough - thanks a lot - during install there was a small glitch though - I got:
(1/1) upgrading catalyst-ice [############################################] 100%
WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH: No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
If you like this package, please install aurvote
and vote for its inclusion/keeping in [community]

creating a symlink 2.6.27-ARCH to 2.6.27-ice fixed it though ;)

Updated to 8.12, working with newest xorg from core. I will try to keep this synchronized with catalyst from testing repo.

I can adopt this package :)

try now please...
if someone out there is interested in maintaining this package, please forward...

My environment:
local/catalyst-utils 8.8-1
local/kernel26-ice 2.6.27-5

When I am patching,something wrong happens:\
diff -Nur archive_files.orig/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c archive _files/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c
--- archive_files.orig/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2008-08-18 13:45:42.000000000 +0200
+++ archive_files/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2008-10-10 19:5 7:39.000000000 +0200
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -Nur archive_files.orig/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c archive_files/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c
|--- archive_files.orig/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2008-08-18 13:45:42.000000000 +0200
|+++ archive_files/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c 2008-10-10 19:57:39.000000000 +0200

updated. Thanks for the time spent improving kernel26-ice ;-)

bye

found the solution to the problem:

please change one line in the 2.6.26 patch:
replace
"+#if defined(__x86_64__) && defined(__SMP__) && (LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,25))"

with
"+#if defined(__x86_64__) && (LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,25))"

And the fglrx module will load again in the kernel

I've tried your kernel26-ice with this catalyst driver and it can't load the fglrx driver,
because of some symbols missing in the kernel..

I've commented on the kernel26-ice about it,
but if you can guide me through the debugging stuff,
then I can help you out.

My system specs:
asus p5ne-e sli board
3 ghz mem.
intel quad-core Q6600
ati HD4870 GDDR5 512 mb

running archlinux x64 testing

I can NOT try this package 'cos i don't have a catalyst card anymore. Is there someone out there so gentle to try it and let me know if it works? thanks...

Depends on catalyst-utils>=8.7 which isn't available yet AFAICS. The -slax version is available and works:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18585

8.7 is available, could you please update?

New 8.5 version is available ;)

Compiz is not working, have got white screen on login.
Arch kernel 2.6.25 and catalyst working well.

Please explain the problem you have.

This is not working for me

I have used archlinux kernel 2.6.25 and it works with catalyst 8.4-2 (testing)
Could you please upgrade your PKGBUILD to catalyst 8.4-2?

extra/catalyst-utils 8.3-1 [8.4-1 installed]
but compiz is not working, have got white screen on login.

Have you tried to update catalyst-utils to 8.4 version? They are actually in testing, but I hope they will be put in extra soon.

This will not work with kernel-2.6.25-ice and compiz.

I think all module packages are required: the matter is that, as iceman said in kernel26-ice discussion, all modules in extra are built against stock kernel, so if you try to load them with another kernel an error message like 'invalid module format' will be shown...

Is this really required. Does the stock catalyst not work?

I tried catalyst + kernel26-fbcondecor. There were no problem. There is a catalyst-fbcondecor.

Now, I'm going to try -ice.

Updated to 8.3 versiom