7 Responses to “ATI/AMD catalyst fglrx legacy updated to new 13.1 version”

1. Carlos A.
   January 24, 2013 at 16:56 |

   Greetings.
   Have an HD4xxx, don’t remember the exact model, available in my laptop.
   Had no success installing the legacy driver since I installed openSuSE 12.2.
   Hope I get some luck now.
   Will the drivers be available through the repositories or are they available through the popular update scripts?

   Thanks for the help.

   • Bruno Friedmann
     January 25, 2013 at 07:05 |

     The fglrx-legacy is published on the repository
     zypper ref -f && zypper lu should show a bump version update.
     From version 8.97.100.3-2 to 8.97.100.7
2. Carlos A.
   January 24, 2013 at 18:33 |

   Makerpm needs to change as it only looks and uses the past version of Ati legacy drivers.
   atiupgrade works, detects a new version, but could download it as it couldn’t find it.

   • Bruno Friedmann
     January 25, 2013 at 07:07 |

     I’m sorry, but I can only speak about the rpm prepared with Sebastian’s makerpm-amd-13.1-legacy.sh. Nothing else 🙂
3. Carlos A.
   January 24, 2013 at 23:20 |

   Greetings, have to correct the last posts. The legacy script will be shared soon. The current script works with not legacy GPU.
4. Marek Paśnikowski
   January 25, 2013 at 16:01 |

   I tried my best to install the driver on OpenSUSE 12.3 but it kept failing to work with X. The crash log is consistently same:
   [code]
   [ 106.684]
   X.Org X Server 1.13.1
   Release Date: 2012-12-13
   [ 106.684] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
   [ 106.684] Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
   [ 106.684] Current Operating System: Linux hirager-5.home 3.4.6-2.10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 26 09:36:26 UTC 2012 (641c197) x86_64
   [ 106.684] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.10-desktop root=UUID=9cbf4b06-789f-4ef3-ae5c-05062564a75b resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VM1E297-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts
   [ 106.684] Build Date: 10 January 2013 09:13:13PM
   [ 106.684]
   [ 106.684] Current version of pixman: 0.28.2
   [ 106.684] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
   to make sure that you have the latest version.
   [ 106.684] Markers: (–) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
   (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
   [ 106.684] (==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time: Fri Jan 25 15:35:40 2013
   [ 106.684] (==) Using config file: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”
   [ 106.684] (==) Using config directory: “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d”
   [ 106.684] (==) Using system config directory “/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d”
   [ 106.684] (==) ServerLayout “aticonfig Layout”
   [ 106.684] (**) |–>Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” (0)
   [ 106.684] (**) | |–>Monitor “aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0”
   [ 106.685] (**) | |–>Device “aticonfig-Device[0]-0”
   [ 106.685] (==) Automatically adding devices
   [ 106.685] (==) Automatically enabling devices
   [ 106.685] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
   [ 106.685] (WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi” does not exist.
   [ 106.685] Entry deleted from font path.
   [ 106.685] (==) FontPath set to:
   /usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled,
   /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
   /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
   /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
   /usr/share/fonts/ghostscript/,
   /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled,
   /usr/share/fonts/truetype/,
   built-ins
   [ 106.685] (==) ModulePath set to “/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules”
   [ 106.685] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
   If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
   [ 106.685] (II) Loader magic: 0x801c20
   [ 106.685] (II) Module ABI versions:
   [ 106.685] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
   [ 106.685] X.Org Video Driver: 13.1
   [ 106.685] X.Org XInput driver : 18.0
   [ 106.685] X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
   [ 106.686] (–) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:9460:174b:e115 rev 0, Mem @ 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfeaf0000/65536, I/O @ 0x0000c000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
   [ 106.686] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension SYNC
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension RENDER
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension RANDR
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension RECORD
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension DPMS
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XVideo
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
   [ 106.686] Initializing built-in extension DRI2
   [ 106.686] (II) “glx” will be loaded by default.
   [ 106.686] (II) LoadModule: “glx”
   [ 106.686] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/updates/extensions/libglx.so
   [ 106.686] (II) Module glx: vendor=”Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.”
   [ 106.686] compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
   [ 106.687] Loading extension GLX
   [ 106.687] (II) LoadModule: “fglrx”
   [ 106.687] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
   [ 106.700] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension
   [ 106.700] (II) UnloadModule: “fglrx”
   [ 106.700] (II) Unloading fglrx
   [ 106.700] (EE) Failed to load module “fglrx” (loader failed, 7)
   [ 106.700] (EE) No drivers available.
   [ 106.700]
   Fatal server error:
   [ 106.700] no screens found
   [ 106.700] (EE)
   Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
   at http://wiki.x.org
   for help.
   [ 106.700] (EE) Please also check the log file at “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” for additional information.
   [ 106.700] (EE)
   [/code]

   • Bruno Friedmann
     January 27, 2013 at 19:48 |

     Known bug, unfortunately the new xorg 1.13 made a hard life to the old fglrx-legacy code …
     Please post report to the sebastian blog. As described in previous article or in the wiki by using his makerpm script to grab all the usefull information