Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
On 07/11/2012 08:09 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/12 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:56:50 -0300, Ezequiel wrote: (please, keep html turned off, thanks :-) ) Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it implies to downgrade Xserver to a version prior to 1.12. Now I can wait fglrx 12-5 (wich is supposed to work under the new XOrg. (...) In the Spanish mailing list, a user posted an alternative method to install the latest flgrx package in Wheezy (instructions detailed in this Debian's forum thread): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6t=80708#p440494 Not sure what solution (downgrading packages or patching a library) would be better, though... Greetings, The problem with using AMD's drivers is that they aren't always current with the latest X.org. That's probably why there is no fglrx-driver in the current Wheezy repositories. Moreover, the driver will likely break later as Wheezy evolves. I've been down this route myself. Eventually I just settled on the open source drivers. They work well and are kept updated. The proprietary drivers are just too much work when running debian/testing. +1 on this. I just don't think fglrx is worth the trouble. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50086484.90...@gmail.com
Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
On 11/07/12 18:23, Camaleón wrote: [...] IIRC, the open source driver still has some problems with powersaving. This ^. This is the reason I'm stuck with the xorg packets put on hold for several months now and I can't upgrade them. Unfortunately I'm having one of those ATi Radeon graphics chipsets that won't be supported anymore with the new fglrx driver which is compatible with the xorg 1.12 ABI. I tried the open source radeon driver but it just doesn't cut it for me. When I run the radeon driver the fan is spinning like mad, making the machine very noisy; with fglrx the fan starts only when there is high CPU/graphics activity. I tried all the sugestions regarding slowing down the chip with the radeon driver (echo profile /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method; echo low /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile), but I couldn't bring down the temperature enough so the fan would stop whining. So until the open source radeon improves the power management I'll keep fglrx and xorg 1.11. -- Adrian Fita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50086b29.1000...@gmail.com
Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:56:50 -0300, Ezequiel wrote: (please, keep html turned off, thanks :-) ) Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it implies to downgrade Xserver to a version prior to 1.12. Now I can wait fglrx 12-5 (wich is supposed to work under the new XOrg. (...) In the Spanish mailing list, a user posted an alternative method to install the latest flgrx package in Wheezy (instructions detailed in this Debian's forum thread): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6t=80708#p440494 Not sure what solution (downgrading packages or patching a library) would be better, though... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtk3sl$4fh$9...@dough.gmane.org
Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
On 11/07/12 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:56:50 -0300, Ezequiel wrote: (please, keep html turned off, thanks :-) ) Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it implies to downgrade Xserver to a version prior to 1.12. Now I can wait fglrx 12-5 (wich is supposed to work under the new XOrg. (...) In the Spanish mailing list, a user posted an alternative method to install the latest flgrx package in Wheezy (instructions detailed in this Debian's forum thread): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6t=80708#p440494 Not sure what solution (downgrading packages or patching a library) would be better, though... Greetings, The problem with using AMD's drivers is that they aren't always current with the latest X.org. That's probably why there is no fglrx-driver in the current Wheezy repositories. Moreover, the driver will likely break later as Wheezy evolves. I've been down this route myself. Eventually I just settled on the open source drivers. They work well and are kept updated. The proprietary drivers are just too much work when running debian/testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ffd973d.1090...@rogers.com
Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
Today I tried the sid one fglrx-driver and the xserver-xorg* in wheezy box. It's reported segmental fault. Fixed by following the advice downgrading the xserver-xorg, at the same time, the fglrx-driver is from wheezy-backports. so it came as old days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmma_uea4dgqcowhg16y0w9yadetsarbulkwk5kmh4x...@mail.gmail.com
Re: ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:09:49 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/12 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:56:50 -0300, Ezequiel wrote: (please, keep html turned off, thanks :-) ) Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it implies to downgrade Xserver to a version prior to 1.12. Now I can wait fglrx 12-5 (wich is supposed to work under the new XOrg. (...) In the Spanish mailing list, a user posted an alternative method to install the latest flgrx package in Wheezy (instructions detailed in this Debian's forum thread): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6t=80708#p440494 Not sure what solution (downgrading packages or patching a library) would be better, though... The problem with using AMD's drivers is that they aren't always current with the latest X.org. That's probably why there is no fglrx-driver in the current Wheezy repositories. Moreover, the driver will likely break later as Wheezy evolves. That's the usual thing to happen and not only for ATI but also nvidia closed source drivers. It shouldn't be a problem if these drivers were ready for the xorg version in place. OTOH, when using a rolling release (as can be testing when not freezed) recompiling the closed source driver installed from upstream sources is a must when a new kernel is installed. I've been down this route myself. Eventually I just settled on the open source drivers. They work well and are kept updated. The proprietary drivers are just too much work when running debian/testing. IIRC, the open source driver still has some problems with powersaving. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtk5pu$4fh$1...@dough.gmane.org
ATI Propietary driver install in Debian Wheezy (Xorg downgrade to a working previous version)
Hi all: Searching in the Internet I've found a way to make ATI propietary
driver work under Wheezy. Of course, it implies to downgrade Xserver to a
version prior to 1.12.
Now I can wait fglrx 12-5 (wich is supposed to work under the new XOrg.
### All credit belongs to negafon from linuxquestions.org, I just added a
last step that will be needed if you don't have your kernel development kit
installed and shared his solution
1-First, you must add the repos to dowgrade Xorg
*deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120515T220710Z/ wheezy main
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120515T220710Z/ wheezy
main*
Tat's a snapshot from May 15, 2012 at 10:07PM
2-Create the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/60xorg_rollback.pref
*Package: xserver-xorg*
Pin: origin snapshot.debian.org
Pin-Priority: 1001 *
This makes the priority of snapshot.debian.org repos for xserver-xorg
package higher than any other, so it will install the version desired
3- In order to prevent apt check the date in the repos (this mechanism
prevents accidental installation of older software), we create a file
called /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60ignore_repo_date_check
*Acquire
{
Check-Valid-Until false;
} *
4- We make the changes and downgrade xserver-xorg package
as root:*
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade*
5- Finally, download the ati propietary driver from
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx and run
# sh ./amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run
If you don't have your kernel headers installed, you will need to install
them with the good old
*# aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r)*
If the driver doesn't compile properly, you can have a look at /usr/share/*
ati*/fglrx-*install*.*log*
If you still have problems with kernel dependencies, the rude way to
install all necessary packages is
*
# aptitude install module-assistant
# m-a update
# m-a prepare
*I hope you find this useful as I did. The original post from
linuxquestions can be found at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-do-i-get-my-fglrx-driver-back-946102/
I must apologize for my limited English writing, I hope you'll understand
this limitation. Please feel free to make any correction at my spelling or
grammar errors.
Saludos!
Zeke
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