Posts Tagged ‘12.1’
January 24th, 2013 by Bruno Friedmann
Proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst fglrx legacy 13.1 (8.97.100.7-1) rpm released
Notice
This release concern only radeon HD2xxx to HD4xxx owners
The published Catalyst fglrx rpm version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 12.3 (new repository) and also Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.8x series).
For testing with the next openSUSE 12.3 just use the new openSUSE_12.3 repo
The release note
Feedback
Sebastian Siebert will publish an article today, and he’s looking for feedback about the patches included to make it working on 12.3, so don’t hesitate to get in touch with him
Comments:
As I didn’t have a gpu card of this series, I can’t test it before publishing the rpm like for normal fglrx. If someone has a spare hd2xxx or hd4xxx, Could he(she) contact me?
Have fun!
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, amd, ATI, fglrx legacy, Kernel, xorg
Posted in GNOME, KDE, Kernel, Packaging, X.org, XFCE | 7 Comments »
January 21st, 2013 by Bruno Friedmann
Proprietary AMD/ATI Catalyst fglrx 13.1 (9.012-1) rpm released
Sorry this article should have been published Saturday, but some trouble (error in a updated module) locked me outside of lizards), Thanks to Matthew to have fix it in the meantime
fglrx 13.1 amd-ccc & fgl_glxgears
Notice
This release concern only owners of radeon HD5xxx or above.
For older gpu, the fglrx-legacy is still 12.6, and thus didn’t work with Kernel 3.6, 3.7, 3.8
SDB:AMD_fgrlx_legacy
Beware of that fact, and prefer the free open-source radeon driver which came out of the box from your openSUSE distribution.
Release note about 13.1
This Catalyst fglrx version support openSUSE version from 11.4 to 12.3 (new repository) and also Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.8x series).
For testing with the next openSUSE 12.3 just use the new openSUSE_12.3 repo
Release Note
A release note is available on AMD website
Fixed issues
[368958]: Driver release version is added to GL_VERSION
[367282]: Bblank VGA display after resume from suspend
[367245]: X crash for AMD PowerXpress™ A+I High-Performance mode on Ubuntu 12.10
[366820] Performance of Valve Linux games
[366805]: Segmentation fault when exit QtOpenGL applications such as AMD CodeXL
[366425]: Xserver getting exit upon resume from suspend on RHEL 5.8
[364107]: VariBright not working when change AMD PowerPlay™ settings in AMD Catalust Control Center:LE
[363638]: VariBright doesn’t work after resume from suspend on “Trinity” platform
[350759]: Flickering cursor when run some full-screen OpenGL games with CrossFire enabled
[347895]: OpenGL performance on “Southern Islands” ASICs
[344996]: 16 re-frames doesn’t work for H.264 @Level 5.1
[337240]: Corruption when resize the Konsole window
[304016]: One display goes black after changing from multi-display desktop from single independent
Sebastien Siebert making script
Sebastian Siebert post about 13.1
If you have any problems with the driver, don’t be afraid to report to Sebastian (German and English bugreports are gladly accepted).
he will try, as far as I am able to reproduce the bug. Together with the necessary system information, he will go directly to the right place at AMD to have the bug fixed in the next driver release.
Thank you very much, Sebastian.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
Or you can also ping him on irc (freespacer)
fglrx & 3d effects kde 4.9.5 on openSUSE 12.2
Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org, XFCE | 2 Comments »
October 28th, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst fglrx 12.10 (9.002) released
Notice
This release concern only owners of radeon HD5xxx or above. For older gpu, the fglrx-legacy is still 12.6
SDB:AMD_fgrlx_legacy
fgl_glxgears & AMD CCLE
Release note about 12.10
This Catalyst version support 11.4 to Tumbleweed (thus also kernel 3.6x series). Unfortunately the latest factory didn’t upgrade successfully and failed to create its initrd. So no fglrx 12.10 for factory actually, but you are debugging free radeon, don’t you? 🙂
I’m translating here a note from Sebastian Siebert last post
I have a small request: If you have any problems with the driver, don’t be afraid to report to me (I take German and English bugreports are also gladly accepted). I will try, as far as I am able to reproduce the bug. Together with the necessary system information, I will go directly to the right place at AMD to have the bug fixed in the next driver release.
Thank you very much, Sebastian.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
Or you can also ping him on irc (freespacer)
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Tags: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
July 31st, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst fglrx & fglrx legacy news
Explanations of Hell
During June, with the version 12.6 (8.980) AMD decide to drop support for legacy radeon chipset from its main fglrx package and drop the time based release cycle.
So now if you are the owner of radeon hd2xxx to hd4xxx chipset family you will have to use the -legacy- version of fglrx, and
consequently if you have a radeon hd5xxx or above, you have to use the standard fglrx driver.
Then start the hell. After getting the new developed script from Sebastian Siebert, I will be able to offer the two versions. Unfortunately the two drivers can’t coexist in the same repository, the legacy drivers wants to install in place of normal one. This imply another limitation, you can’t have two graphics cards with differents generation at the same time.
So I decide to clarify (is that possible? :-)) the mess, and split the drivers in two distinct repositories. I use that excuse to also change the ati (deprecated brand name) and use new names: amd-fglx and amd-fglrx-legacy.
Don’t worry about your exiting installation, I will provide a symlink during the next 6 months at least for the old repositories. But read carefully the rest of the story, and apply any changes needed to your installation to be sure to continue to safely use the right driver.
I also decided to remove any version below 12.4 (8.961) in all repositories, except for openSUSE 11.2.
I need your help to spread those informations around the internet, and be sure that every user that need this driver know where and how to use it right. Tweet FbLike G+ forums, mailing list, private blogs Go now!
Release note about 12.6 and legacy 8.97.100
Both version can handle kernel 3.4 and 3.5
Sebastian Siebert warn us about the state of legacy
AMD catalyst control center and fgl_glxgears
These cards with the unofficial support of openSUSE 12.2 can run in the ideal case, just under 2 more years. However, one must keep in mind that the legacy driver is looked after, while AMD continues and eliminates errors found, but will not add new features. This can mean, among other things, that the next version of GNOME or KDE will not run with its 3D effects, especially when used with a desktop or Tumbleweed extra repository.
Sebastian’s post
If you have any comments, be do on his blog. Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
or ask in forums, irc and ping freespacer.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
12.2 Factory rpms are presently available, use at your own risk, and report bugs in forums and Sebastian blogs.
Anyways, factory and 12.2 should keep their effort on debuging and testing widely the free radeon driver.
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, amd, ATI, fglrx, fglrx legacy, Kernel, xorg
Posted in Base System, Desktop, Packaging, X.org | 14 Comments »
May 31st, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.4 / fglrx 8.961 (build 5 revised) rpms are available
Quick Résumé about 12.4
The first version available in repository from April 30th has trouble with any kernel never than 3.3
Sebastian Siebert has create a patch for kernel 3.4+, I google translate quickly his blog article here.
AMD catalyst control center and fgl_glxgears
May 30th 2012
WARNING! Who use AMD Catalyst 12.4 driver from the AMD installer will inevitably have problems with kernel 3.4.0 and higher (eg from the Tumbleweed repo).
Because the driver is designed, at least up to kernel 3.3.x on openSUSE only.
Here are some examples of errors when compiling a kernel module fglrx:
error: 'cpu_possible_map' undeclared (first use in this function) ...
error: implicit declaration of function '__save_init_fpu'
Or when you load the fglrx kernel module:
A FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/ lib/modules/3.4.0-25-desktop/extra/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
The output of dmesg: fglrx: Unknown symbol old_rsp (err 0)
I now have an updated makerpm-amd script and replaced the older packaging from script to a newer.
At this point, I say thank you for the helpful feedback and also to the AMD community that their minds have assembled to investigate the problem and make it to the world.
The packaging script I maintain, need no extra time. The kernel patches for the compiler error I’ve already entered for this month in the AMD installer. In the next AMD Catalyst we will not need this patch anymore. Since the patch will be included in the source fglrx from AMD for the next version.
Small warning for stormy times: AMD plans to graphics chips R6xx/R7xx not lead to the main branch.
The graphics card series Radeon HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 are affected (Phoronix has reported). The last supported version is expected to be AMD Catalyst 12.7. However, AMD has turned in and stored in a separate branch of this, it weiterzupflegen there. It means that no new feature added, but only fix bugs. openSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 is still supported and maintained. The chances are good that the driver to get there will also run on an X-Server 1.12.
The next openSUSE version 12.2 in July, will should use the X-server 1.10, so that the driver theoretically run on this version of openSUSE. For this I’ll create a separate makerpm-amd script, that this legacy continues as usual drivers to install on openSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 (possibly 12.2) and will also provide the necessary kernel patches. AMD believes that these chipsets will already extensive support from the free Radeon driver. So it is time to order a new graphics card in order to continue the beta drivers from AMD Catalyst testing on openSUSE. A new graphics card was already planned last October. So I will finally keep your hardware donation for the new graphics card.
See more at Sebastian’s blog.
Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
or ask in forums, irc and ping freespacer.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.961 are available from Thursday May 31
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in Base System, GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org | Comments Off on AMD/ATI fglrx 8.961 Catalyst 12.4 (build 5) rpms available for openSUSE 12.2, 12.1, 11.4, 11.3 & Tumbleweed
March 8th, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.2 / fglrx 8.950 rpm are available
News, the build -3 now should build perfectly with kernel 3.2+ & 3.3, Thanks to Sebastian for the patch
Quick Résumé about 12.2
AMD rename their installer, So Sebastian did the same for his script.
I will just copy/google translate/paste here the comment made by Sebastian Siebert on his blog :
amdccle
AMD has released some time later the driver. The only reason was the fact that AMD has jumped over the version 8.94 because of possible driver issues with some graphics cards. I’ve also updated the packaging script because AMD had unfortunately not include my changes in their AMD installer. (Remember? No time? Who knows … Especially since AMD closed mailing list was down.) It affects even the atieventsd.sh init script. There has been specified for the start of the script in run level 3 and also the XDM (X window manager) provided what IMHO makes no sense. On the other hand, the power mode script (ati powermode.sh) kicked out for good. Since the driver already supports the suspend mode and does not require a helper script anymore.
Driver support now AMD Radeon HD 7950, HD 7970, HD 7990
See more at Sebastian’s blog. Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
or ask in forums, irc and ping freespacer.
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.950 are available from Thursday March 8th.
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATIX, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in Distribution, GNOME, KDE, Uncategorized, X.org | 6 Comments »
January 27th, 2012 by Bruno Friedmann
AMD/ATI Catalyst 12.1 / fglrx 8.930 rpm are available
Sorry I missed in December the annoucement release for the 8.920, but from what I’ve seen. zypper up do the job for you 🙂
Quick Résumé about 12.1
AMD rename their installer, So Sebastian did the same for his script.
I will just copy/google translate/paste here the comment made by Sebastian Siebert on his blog :
With this version AMD Catalyst Gnome 3.2 issues (flickering and screen cracks) are finally resolved.
According to AMD, the notebook with the PowerXpress technology (Intel-/AMD-Grafikkarte – discrete GPU) should work again.
I would be grateful if someone could test this functionality for me and give me feedback. Thank you.
See more at Sebastian’s blog. Don’t be shy, you can leave there the result of test in english too 😀
See below what to do in case of troubles.
The rpms version 8.930 are available from Friday January 27th
My advise is to firstly remove any existing version with zypper rm, then just zypper in the new version, even if 8.930 are the first version I’ve seen making its upgrade correctly.
As usual, I let the last 2 previous versions in the repository, just in case you need it.
Catalyst 8.930 fglrx 12.1 in action
Tested on a fresh 12.1 + updates with a stock kde 4.7.2
Factory rpms are not available actually, I’ve not be able to build a new building machine for it.
Anyways, factory and 12.2 should keep their effort on debuging and testing widely the free radeon driver.
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Tags: 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, amd, ATI, fglrx, Kernel, xorg
Posted in GNOME, KDE, Kernel, X.org | Comments Off on ATI/AMD fglrx 8.930 Catalyst 12.1 rpm available for openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1
December 22nd, 2011 by Jigish Gohil
openSUSE Education team is proud to present another edition of openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e (Linux for Education) based on openSUSE 12.1. Li-f-e comes loaded with everything that students, parents, teachers and system admins of educational institutions may need.
more screenshots…
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Tags: 12.1, Education, li-f-e, LTSP, openSUSE
Posted in Apache, Derivative, Desktop, Distribution, Education, GNOME, KDE, Programming, Samba, Server, Virtualization | Comments Off on openSUSE Edu Li-f-e 12.1 out now!
November 12th, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
As you all knows, our great party on Second life, celebrating openSUSE 12.1 Gold master release is starting in 5 minutes on Second Life.
Be there : rendez-vous at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ama%20gi/139/50/21
Just copy & paste the url, for a direct teleportation in our Geeko Place, once you are in SL 😀
Tags: 12.1, party, Second Life
Posted in Distribution, Events | Comments Off on Gold Master release is starting in 5 minutes
October 3rd, 2011 by Bruno Friedmann
You get an invitation!
Geeko place on SecondLife
Ladies & Gentlemen, months after the first virtual party [1][2][3] organized for 11.4 launch,
Françoise (aka Morgane Marquis) and myself (tigerfoot) organize 3 new parties on SecondLife [4] to welcome and fest our next release openSUSE 12.1, coming around the 11.11.11.
- Three virtual great Saturday: October 22th, November 12th and December 10th.
- From 6 to 8am Australian DJ Ariella is back again.
- From 9 to 11am (SL time : utc-9) we will have the pleasure to listen American DJ Esquivel.
You should take this opportunity to try Second Life, creating an avatar, coming to dance and drinking some beers with us at Geekos Place.
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Tags: 12.1, party, secondlife
Posted in Ambassadors, Distribution, Events, lizards.openSUSE.org, Marketing | Comments Off on 3 new virtual party on SecondLife for upcoming openSUSE 12.1
