sudo apt-get remove fglrx*
How are you installing the driver, making the deb's or forcing the lib
install? I'd recommend the packages as that won't be catastrophic with
kernel updates. Packages allow for dkms to recompile the module for
kernel upgrades.
sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg
Ubuntu/precise
sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
Make sure to replace the distribution (precise) with whatever you're on,
and the filename.
Other than that, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, but you're not
installing the packages clean.
-mb
On 12/26/2013 05:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
uh-ohhhhhh
I installed 13.12 with the force option and it installed. then the
machine said it needed a reboot. so I did and now X doesn't work. so
this is way deeper than I had hoped it would be but it is too late to
go back now! so I had read that you need to reinstall X after an FGLRX
upgrade. I need to go to work now but if you could tell me how to do
this it would be great. After we get done with this I am going to have
a bunch of instructional files. that is what I do now.... I copy the
instructuions into a file and put that into a folder entitle 'computer
instructions so I don't have to bug anyone about my little problems
and so I can help someone with the same problem.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
figured out the installation (sh <file>) but now it is telling me
to uninstall the previous installation of fglrx (which I am doing
with apt-get remove). But to remove it it is installing a package
called :
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates
SO should I continue with the installation of 13.12 after the
updates are installed?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
okay.... is installed but they are up to version 13.12 . Time
for an upgrade. I d/l the new driver butdon't know how to
install it. The file is a .run file . './<file name> isn't
working and the release notes don't give any indication. So
what do I do?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Butash
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
mb@host:~$ sudo dpkg -l fglrx
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii fglrx 2:13.200-0ub amd64 Video driver
for the AMD graphics
Compare that against the active driver sets from AMD's site.
-mb
On 12/26/2013 03:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
Hey Mike..... how do I see what the current version of
fglrx is? I tried locate and I think it is 9 or 10 as
there are a coupke of files.... one is:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx
and the other
/usr/lib/pxpress/lib/10fglrx
or
/usr/src/fglrx-9.000
and then a bunch of files built off of that directory.
.... then I just noticed:
/lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Michael Butash
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ok, I think the problem is likely with the format of
the video, it doesn't sound like they're being
hardware decoded, as I don't even see a blip on the
cpu when the gpu is doing the decode. Basically you
don't have enough processing that it's dragging your
system down with it. If VLC, Totem, or whatever all
behave the same, it's a system resource issue.
I'd make sure you upgrade your drivers from actual
AMD/ATI site, as the ones in repo tend to be old, you
might just have some rendering challenges. They've
also steadily added codecs over time for what they
can decode, so it might be fixed. Don't install the
radeon driver, just upgrade the fglrx proprietary
blob driver.
The other option is change your recording format to
something that doesn't kill your cpu. You can also
transcode or reencode the existing videos. I'd
recommend just using straight h.264 as it's all but
standard and supported by most gpu's for decode now.
Plenty of info and apps out there to do this, but not
my forte to point you at any one. I never make
videos, I just download straight h.264 or xvid videos
that give me no grief.
What format *are* these in? Not just the container
(ie. mkv), but the actual codec in use. VLC will
tell you if you look under Tool menu, and Codec
Properties when the file is loaded.
Reply to all for the list too, might help someone
else out here without me having readd them back in
disjointed thread fashion. :)
-mb
On 12/26/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I'm not sure if I need to say this but xbmc videos
play with no problem; the problem is with home
recorded videos. If I upload the videos to you tube
they will play fine. As for the output of: lsmod |
egrep 'fgl|rade'
fglrx 4325524 223 <tel:4325524%20%C2%A0223>
I do not seem to have a radeon driver. I did
apt-cache search to see I could figure out what to
install.... and out of the list that printed up of
interest (i think) is:
fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics
accelerators
and
rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of
your Radeon card
htop just showed vlc at the top of the list when I
started it with cpu usage between 10% and 80%.
I also just tried it with totem (slow video and no
sound) and gnome-mplayer (slow video, normal sound
which rushes ahead)
:-)~MIKE~(-:
$ apt-cache search radeon
libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to
radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
libdrm-radeon1-dbg - Userspace interface to
radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- debugging symbols
radeontool - utility to control ATI Radeon backlight
functions on laptops
xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI
display driver wrapper
xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg - X.Org X server --
AMD/ATI display driver wrapper (debugging symbols)
xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server --
AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg - X.Org X server --
AMD/ATI Radeon display driver (debugging symbols)
xvba-va-driver - XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD
fglrx implementation)
fglrx - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
fglrx-amdcccle - Catalyst Control Center for the AMD
graphics accelerators
fglrx-amdcccle-updates - Catalyst Control Center for
the AMD graphics accelerators
fglrx-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics
accelerators (devel files)
fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics
accelerators
fglrx-updates-dev - Video driver for the AMD
graphics accelerators (devel files)
mplayer2 - next generation movie player for
Unix-like systems
rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of
your Radeon card
atitvout - ATI TV Out Support Program
gatos - ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software
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