Hi,
I can't get to install the proprietary driver "fglrx" with ATI Radeon HD
5970 on Debian Squeeze.
After the installation with ATI Catalyst 12-8 and a reboot, from the stage
of GDM, the screen is freezing with a lot of little squares appearing on X,
mouse is locking and total freezing of the system. I have tried with old
Catalyst versions and same problems.
I would like to install the proprietary fglrx driver because I need to use
bi-GPU of this card with OpenCL. With the free radeon driver, I have no
problem for X but I don't have GPU support.
I also try with "module-assistant" but the issue is the same.
Here's my config :
PC : Aspire G5900-090 - Core i7-870 - 8Go - HD5970 (2048Mo)
$ lspci | grep ATI
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI
Radeon HD 5900 Series]
03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon
HD 5800 Series]
04:00.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI Radeon HD
5900 Series]
$ uname -a
Linux sev 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 3 21:40:57 UTC 2012 x86_64
GNU/Linux
With free radeon driver, "CLInfo" tool of ATI stream SDK makes only appear
CPUs :
/opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64 $ ./CLInfo
Number of platforms: 1
Platform Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Platform Version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)
Platform Name: ATI Stream
Platform Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Platform Extensions: cl_khr_icd
Platform Name: ATI Stream
Number of devices: 1
Device Type: CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU
Device ID: 4098
Max compute units: 8
Max work items dimensions: 3
Max work items[0]: 1024
Max work items[1]: 1024
Max work items[2]: 1024
Max work group size: 1024
Preferred vector width char: 16
Preferred vector width short: 8
Preferred vector width int: 4
Preferred vector width long: 2
Preferred vector width float: 4
Preferred vector width double: 0
Max clock frequency: 1200Mhz
Address bits: 64
Max memory allocation: 1073741824
Image support: No
Max size of kernel argument: 4096
Alignment (bits) of base address: 1024
Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype: 128
Single precision floating point capability
Denorms: Yes
Quiet NaNs: Yes
Round to nearest even: Yes
Round to zero: No
Round to +ve and infinity: No
IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add: No
Cache type: Read/Write
Cache line size: 0
Cache size: 0
Global memory size: 3221225472
Constant buffer size: 65536
Max number of constant args: 8
Local memory type: Global
Local memory size: 32768
Profiling timer resolution: 1
Device endianess: Little
Available: Yes
Compiler available: Yes
Execution capabilities:
Execute OpenCL kernels: Yes
Execute native function: No
Queue properties:
Out-of-Order: No
Profiling : Yes
Platform ID: 0x7f6f1e600228
Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @
2.93GHz
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Driver version: 1.1
Profile: FULL_PROFILE
Version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)
Extensions: cl_khr_icd cl_amd_fp64
cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics
cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics
cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics
cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ext_device_fission
cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_printf
Passed!
Has anyone already got this problem of freezing with the fglrx proprietary
driver on Radeon HD 5970 ? Could it be an issue with my screen or with
frequencies ?
Any help would really be appreciated
