Talk:Ubuntu Gutsy Installation Guide

Method 2 for Catalysy 7.11
Done.

Suspend/Hibernation with Catalyst 7.11 & Gutsy
I hoped that with these drivers and Gutsty, the suspend problem would have been solved. Unfortunately it isn't for me. I tried also to apply the patches to "acpi-support" (like doing with Feisty) but unsuccessfully. Any working experiences? Solutions? Workarounds?

Update: it would appear that this problem is fixed in the latest release 7.12, or at least it now suddenly works for me. However, there are a few new problems that have cropped up for me, such as segfaulting while running graphics-intensive applications such as googleearth, and the amdccc does not detect the driver. This is probably a problem in my own installation, but I felt it worthwhile to mention it here...

installation hint
I followed this guide and fglrxinfo yielded the desired output.

But then I still got the following problems:
 * crash/restart of X when trying to run glxgears
 * crash/restart of X when trying to watch mythtv recording
 * visual artefacts from window creation

The cause I assumed in that:

did not yield 'yes' but 'no' and 'Mesa Indirect'

Long search, quick solution:

Note: I don't really know what this actually does in the context of a desired installation, so try at your own risk. I assume this being installed from my earlier Feisty installation where I tried out compiz and AIGLX was not supported by the driver.

After removing the xserver-xgl package, all problems described above vanished.

Maybe someone with more detailed knowledge might find it useful to add a paragraph to the page.

Comment: I had a lot of trouble until I found your solution. Removing xserver-xgl made most of the graphical artifacts disappear (I still have some black bars in the bottom right corner of one screen), and made my dual screen setup work again. Should this be in the general guide?

Comment: I was seeing some very similar behavior after following this tutorial. glxgears would cause gdm to crash and the artifacts were left on the screen. The system would also be dog slow, moving windows was very laggy. Removing xserver-xgl did the trick for me!

still Mesa
Hi,

I never had problems until Gutsy & 7.11 came: (bmhm@Sentinux)[~] $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)" (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType. (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO)            * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available               * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *

and

(bmhm@Sentinux)[~] $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)" (EE) fglrx(0): [pcie] Failed to gather memory of size 262144Kb for PCIe. Error (-1000) (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

Any Ideas? It did work before (on feisty, using older drivers)!! Help!! --212.62.64.34 14:08, 22 November 2007 (CST)

I SOLVED (subvertigo): The problem was the fglrx.ko. The symbolic link have been overwritten at each reboot. Check if the fglrx.ko in the "volatile" folder is a symbolic link or not to that in the "misc" folder (Gnome reports an arrow on the icon if it is, and must have the same dimension). If it is the same problem see the first paragraph to see how I solved.

The symbolic link is gone after a reboot. Filesize of the one in the misc folder is 2084611 bytes and the one in the volatile folder is 1058754 bytes. I don't know where/what this copying is done. :(

Performing the following command:

find / -name 'fglrx*.ko'

Results in:

/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/misc/fglrx.ko

So where this 1058754 bytes sized version exists on the system is unclear to me.

(Partially) Installed but 7.11 Driver NOT used
The catalyst control center is available under "accessories" and list the following.

Software:
 * Driver version : 8.43.2
 * Catalyst Control Center Version : 1.6

OpenGL:
 * .. Provider : Mesa project ...
 * .. Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
 * .. Version : 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.1)

Checklist:
 * "Restricted" repositories not commented
 * The "restricter driver manager" says that the driver is enabled and in use.
 * Symbolic link exists

Really don't know what the problem is.

EDIT (subvertigo) The problem is almost surely the "fglrx.ko"... see the first paragraph for the solution. Moreover the "restricted manager" should say that the driver is NOT enabled (equivalent to blacklist the original "fglrx" in linux-restricted-modules-common).

Method 1 fails, since xorg-driver-fglrx and fglrx kernel module versions differ
xorg-driver-fglrx is version is 8.38.7-1 and the fglrx kernel module version in linux-restricted-modules-generic is still 8.37.6.

Xorg complains: ad@homer:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)" (EE) fglrx(0): incompatible kernel module detected - HW accelerated OpenGL will not work (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable

After a reboot this link was always removed automatically
I installed the latest Radeon driver using the ATI installer and found myself trying to solve this reboot problem. Eventually I deduced that the modules in the Gutsy /lib/modules/(uname -r)/volatile/ directory are generated (compiled?) on a reboot from the files in the directories contained in /lib/linux-restricted-modules/(uname -r)/. By replacing the three files in fglrx with the matching named files from ATI's /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ it appeared to work happily on a reboot.

I am not entirely convinced by this empirical solution as I do not understand the compilation process well enough. (Hugh Kernohan)

Error Executing Gutsy Installation Guide
When I reach the command,

sudo aticonfig --initial

I receive the following error,

john1726@vm-bartok:~/Install$ sudo aticonfig --initial Uninitialised file found, configuring. Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-1
 * glibc detected *** aticonfig: munmap_chunk: invalid pointer: 0xbfda69ca ***

= Backtrace:
=== /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1bb)[0xb7db892b] aticonfig[0x8051ce7] aticonfig[0x8052065] aticonfig[0x8055a48] aticonfig[0x804985e] aticonfig[0x80496cb] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7d61050] aticonfig[0x8049601]

= Memory map:
== 08048000-0806a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1388518   /usr/bin/aticonfig 0806a000-0806d000 rw-p 00021000 08:01 1388518   /usr/bin/aticonfig 0806d000-0808e000 rw-p 0806d000 00:00 0         [heap] b7d3d000-b7d3e000 rw-p b7d3d000 00:00 0 b7d3e000-b7d40000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 33606     /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.6.1.so b7d40000-b7d42000 rw-p 00001000 08:01 33606      /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.6.1.so b7d42000-b7d43000 rw-p b7d42000 00:00 0 b7d43000-b7d47000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385811   /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 b7d47000-b7d48000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 1385811   /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0 b7d48000-b7d4a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385800   /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 b7d4a000-b7d4b000 rw-p 00001000 08:01 1385800   /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0 b7d4b000-b7e8f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 33603     /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so b7e8f000-b7e90000 r--p 00143000 08:01 33603      /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so b7e90000-b7e92000 rw-p 00144000 08:01 33603      /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so b7e92000-b7e95000 rw-p b7e92000 00:00 0 b7e95000-b7eb8000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 33607     /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.6.1.so b7eb8000-b7eba000 rw-p 00023000 08:01 33607      /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.6.1.so b7eba000-b7fa7000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385794    /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0 b7fa7000-b7fab000 rw-p 000ed000 08:01 1385794   /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0 b7fab000-b7fb8000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385815   /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 b7fb8000-b7fb9000 rw-p 0000d000 08:01 1385815   /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0 b7fb9000-b7fba000 rw-p b7fb9000 00:00 0 b7fba000-b7fc1000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385837   /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0 b7fc1000-b7fc2000 rw-p 00006000 08:01 1385837   /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0 b7fc2000-b7fc7000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1385835   /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2.1.0 b7fc7000-b7fc8000 rw-p 00005000 08:01 1385835   /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2.1.0 b7fcf000-b7fd9000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1970915   /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7fd9000-b7fda000 rw-p 0000a000 08:01 1970915   /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b7fda000-b7fdd000 rw-p b7fda000 00:00 0 b7fdd000-b7ff7000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1970861   /lib/ld-2.6.1.so b7ff7000-b7ff9000 rw-p 00019000 08:01 1970861    /lib/ld-2.6.1.so bfd92000-bfda8000 rw-p bfd92000 00:00 0          [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0         [vdso] Aborted (core dumped)