Over the last day I decided to try Ubuntu 14.10 to see if this Bug was still present. First attempt using the Ubuntu supplied driver in Additional Drivers was a failure. The installed driver contained AMD-APP 1526.3 which should be Catalyst 14.6. With this driver installed an incomplete xorg.conf was generated missing the Monitor/Screen sections, only the Device section was present. Only One card was present in clinfo, this also created numerous Errors using aticonfig and after a few attempts at reverting drivers and trying one from AMD the result was an unusable system claiming my password was suddenly invalid. Reading from AMD, is Cat 14.6 even compatible with 14.10? From here; http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-LINUX-Beta-Driver.aspx System Requirements: Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst™ Linux graphics driver, the following software must be installed: Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.15) Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.13) My updated 14.10 has kernel 3.16.
On the second attempt, with a fresh install, I used Catalyst 15.5 from AMD First and that system seems to work fine. Both AMD cards are enabled , both appear in clinfo, and there isn't any problems using aticonfig. It would appear this Bug isn't present in 14.10 on this machine. I haven't tested the others. Unfortunately 14.10 has reached the End of Support and is not in consideration and my experience with catalyst 15.7 while running 12.04.x was not satisfactory, so, Ubuntu 15.04 is out as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310489 Title: xorg.conf overwritten by booting system Status in Linux Mint: New Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-drivers-common source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 ---------------- == SRU Request == There is a regression in the gpu-manager that causes it to revert user changes right before the first reboot after enabling the fglrx driver or the nvidia driver on a system with hybrid graphics (Intel+AMD or Intel+NVIDIA). This causes the gpu-manager to remove the current xorg.conf and to switch to Mesa. [Impact] * This regression makes it almost impossible to use binary drivers on systems with hybrid graphics. [Test Case] * Make sure to be using a hybrid system with Intel+AMD or Intel+NVIDIA GPUs. * Make sure that the gpu-manager is not disabled (only necessary if you disabled it manually). * Remove all fglrx and nvidia drivers (keep the nvidia-common and the nvidia-prime packages): sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-331 sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-331 sudo apt-get --purge remove fglrx sudo apt-get --purge remove fglrx-updates * Install ubuntu-drivers-common from trusty-proposed. * Restart the system. * Install the binary driver (either fglrx or nvidia, according to the available discrete GPU), reboot, and check that the binary driver is enabled (attach your /var/log/gpu-manager.log) - Expected: the (AMD or NVIDIA) discrete GPU is enabled. - Bad behavior: the system switches back to the intel driver and the discrete GPU is not used, despite the fact that the system was configured properly. [Regression Potential] * Low. Systems that currently work will keep working as usual, the ones that currently fail should finally work. [Other Info] * N/A ----------------- Hello, I am using a notebook with a quadcore AMD A10 and hybrid graficcard AMD/ATI Radeon HD 8650G / AMD/ATI Sun XT Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M. After installing fglrx I generated the xorg.conf in the terminal with 'sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial' and it looked pretty good. Up to this point I was able to switch between the cards with the commands 'sudo aticonfig --px-dgpu' for the discrete card and 'sudo aticonfig --px-igpu' for the intigrated card to save power. After rebooting I realized that I was no longer able to switch between the cards and found that the xorg.conf will be overwritten whenever I modified it and reboot the system. The new (by boot) generated xorg.conf contains not the relevant information for switing between the cards. I attached both configuration in one file (xorg.conf.comparison). I will also provide the atisysteminfo-report.txt so far I will find the place where to attach. Edit: I fixed the error --> "AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]" but it changed not the bug of overwriting the xorg.conf. Regards, Uwe ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Apr 21 08:43:29 2014 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: trusty DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: fglrx, 13.350.1, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Richland [Radeon HD 8650G] [1002:990b] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1985] Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1985] InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-20 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=fdcb1eaf-eda9-48ee-9d5b-b44e1fc06687 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 09/26/2013 dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde dmi.bios.version: F.22 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 1985 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: 01.13 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:bvrF.22:bd09/26/2013:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPavilion17NotebookPC:pvr0892100000005910000600000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1985:rvr01.13:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC dmi.product.version: 0892100000005910000600000 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu5 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu5 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2 xserver.bootTime: Mon Apr 21 08:29:06 2014 xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf xserver.errors: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2 xserver.video_driver: fglrx To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1310489/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
