Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
Hi Phil- Very rewarding, if not a bit confusing, starting from scratch with the SL6 Live installation and THEN making the leap to install the proprietary ATI (release 02/15/2011) drivers worked. In fact, the SL6 Live appeared (literally) to recognize the graphics subsystem in that the installation feedback stream was at a font size (and type?!?) which was readable (if one can speed read). My objective was not to have proprietary ATI control, but it is present and the performance is what would be expected with this display driver. It was almost perfectly smooth. After most initial prelim installation of system updates and such, graphics failed. But after the delightful success of the initial performance, a quick re-install of ATI things solved the problem(s). I should add that while I was very motivated to get maximum performance (data visualization, not games), the basic display driver components which were packaged with SL DVD LIVE proper recognized not only the display card but the monitor model. Thus far keeping fingers crossed. I don't know if I can offer further help others to solve this rather hideous problem(s), but I will endeavor to keep technical information forthcoming. Best regards, Wil On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Phil Perry p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 16/03/11 20:02, Wil Irwin wrote: Hi Phil- I VERY much appreciate your suggestion and help. Sadly, these repo options didn't solve my problem. Hmm :-( Everything installed correctly (i.e., without error and a clean install report). However, I was unable to make any changes using the SL default 'display' GUI. I noted that elsewhere in the repo documentation (which I hastily ignored due to the excitement over your solution), the HD 5970 series was not included in the list of supported devices. I'm really unsure which models are supported by which driver - I can't seem to find this information in the ATI documentation. The list of supported devices in the elrepo.org documentation is for the older legacy driver, not the current release. All I can tell you is that when I go to the ATI driver download page, and enter your device, it says the current (11.2) driver supports your card. I have no idea when support was added. Most documentation only states that current cards are supported by the current driver. Am I missing something completely? I do have experience with Linux installations (not an expert by any means). And, specifically, have fought with display adaptor installations endlessly. Probably one of the most frustrating aspect of getting a new system up and running. Thanks again for any further guidance you can provide. I'm not an ATI user so it's difficult for me to offer much in the way of informed advice. Do you see any errors in your Xorg logs or anything else useful to go on? Reading back through the thread, about the only thing I can think to check is regarding your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. By default, SL6 doesn't have an xorg.conf file. The elrepo.org packages will create a suitable xorg.conf file during the installation of the drivers. If you've already created one then the elrepo.org package will try to use that but if it's broken then it's not going to work. Thus I would suggest uninstalling the elrepo.orgpackages, make sure you (backup if necessary, and) delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it still exists and then reinstall the packages. Just a guess really.
Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
Hi Phil- I VERY much appreciate your suggestion and help. Sadly, these repo options didn't solve my problem. Everything installed correctly (i.e., without error and a clean install report). However, I was unable to make any changes using the SL default 'display' GUI. I noted that elsewhere in the repo documentation (which I hastily ignored due to the excitement over your solution), the HD 5970 series was not included in the list of supported devices. Am I missing something completely? I do have experience with Linux installations (not an expert by any means). And, specifically, have fought with display adaptor installations endlessly. Probably one of the most frustrating aspect of getting a new system up and running. Thanks again for any further guidance you can provide. Regards, Wil On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Phil Perry p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 10/03/11 17:28, Wil Irwin wrote: Hi- I have tried multiple times to install the driver using the GUI installer and the subsequent steps. Installation appears to proceed and I can finish with aticonfig --initial. However, the driver doesn't appear to be applied. Scrolling down any webpage or document is very constipated, and dragging windows across the screen is also extremely constipated. In addition the GUI for Catalyst Control Panel will allow resolution, etc. changes, but they are not applied after a re-boot. I have also tried the command-prompt based install, with exactly the same results. I'm using the 11.2 driver released on 02/15/2011. I should also note the same problem (or at least similar) happened with SL5 and Ubuntu 10.x) The errors shown for fgl_glxgears, fglrxinfo, and glxinfo. uname -r; and the xorg.conf file are listed below. I am running SL6 with all updates and packages installed. Any suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Wil Hi Wil, Can I suggest you try the ATI driver package for EL6 from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-fglrx I believe the elrepo.org repository might already be installed under SL6. Once you have elrepo installed, you can install the ATI drivers with: yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-fglrx and if you need 32-bit application support on x86_64 then you should also install the fglrx-x11-drv-32bit package too. *Before* you install the elrepo packaged drivers, please uninstall the previous ATI installer drivers: sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh At the moment elrepo.org only has the 10.12 drivers for SL6 but I'll do my best to get those updated soon.
Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
On 16/03/11 20:02, Wil Irwin wrote: Hi Phil- I VERY much appreciate your suggestion and help. Sadly, these repo options didn't solve my problem. Hmm :-( Everything installed correctly (i.e., without error and a clean install report). However, I was unable to make any changes using the SL default 'display' GUI. I noted that elsewhere in the repo documentation (which I hastily ignored due to the excitement over your solution), the HD 5970 series was not included in the list of supported devices. I'm really unsure which models are supported by which driver - I can't seem to find this information in the ATI documentation. The list of supported devices in the elrepo.org documentation is for the older legacy driver, not the current release. All I can tell you is that when I go to the ATI driver download page, and enter your device, it says the current (11.2) driver supports your card. I have no idea when support was added. Most documentation only states that current cards are supported by the current driver. Am I missing something completely? I do have experience with Linux installations (not an expert by any means). And, specifically, have fought with display adaptor installations endlessly. Probably one of the most frustrating aspect of getting a new system up and running. Thanks again for any further guidance you can provide. I'm not an ATI user so it's difficult for me to offer much in the way of informed advice. Do you see any errors in your Xorg logs or anything else useful to go on? Reading back through the thread, about the only thing I can think to check is regarding your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. By default, SL6 doesn't have an xorg.conf file. The elrepo.org packages will create a suitable xorg.conf file during the installation of the drivers. If you've already created one then the elrepo.org package will try to use that but if it's broken then it's not going to work. Thus I would suggest uninstalling the elrepo.org packages, make sure you (backup if necessary, and) delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf if it still exists and then reinstall the packages. Just a guess really.
Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
Hi Wil! On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Phil Perry p...@pendre.co.uk wrote: On 10/03/11 17:28, Wil Irwin wrote: I have tried multiple times to install the driver using the GUI installer and the subsequent steps. Installation appears to proceed and I can finish with aticonfig --initial. However, the driver doesn't appear to be applied. Scrolling down any webpage or document is very constipated, and dragging windows across the screen is also extremely constipated. In addition the GUI for Catalyst Control Panel will allow resolution, etc. changes, but they are not applied after a re-boot. I have also tried the command-prompt based install, with exactly the same results. I'm using the 11.2 driver released on 02/15/2011. I should also note the same problem (or at least similar) happened with SL5 and Ubuntu 10.x) The errors shown for fgl_glxgears, fglrxinfo, and glxinfo. uname -r; and the xorg.conf file are listed below. I am running SL6 with all updates and packages installed. Any suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated. If you _must_ use the proprietary driver from ATI, without using the elrepo, please do notice that it will not work with kernels above a certain version. I can report that my 5870 runs smoothly with the proprietary driver under a 2.6.35.9 kernel (custom built, in debian). Whenever I try to install the proprietary driver and the install fails, I get the same errors you got from glxinfo, so I suppose you're having the same issue (kernel incompatibility). You can be sure that the error is due to kernel version incompatibility by reading /usr/share/ati/install.log (or something similar, I am not at the machine with the device right now), which logs the problems with the proprietary driver install. HTH, Renato.
Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Wil Irwin wil.ir...@gmail.com wrote: Any suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated. Yes, use the ATI driver in Elrepo; it works for me with SL6 x86_64.
Re: No success installing ATI Radeon HD5970 driver
On 10/03/11 17:28, Wil Irwin wrote: Hi- I have tried multiple times to install the driver using the GUI installer and the subsequent steps. Installation appears to proceed and I can finish with aticonfig --initial. However, the driver doesn't appear to be applied. Scrolling down any webpage or document is very constipated, and dragging windows across the screen is also extremely constipated. In addition the GUI for Catalyst Control Panel will allow resolution, etc. changes, but they are not applied after a re-boot. I have also tried the command-prompt based install, with exactly the same results. I'm using the 11.2 driver released on 02/15/2011. I should also note the same problem (or at least similar) happened with SL5 and Ubuntu 10.x) The errors shown for fgl_glxgears, fglrxinfo, and glxinfo. uname -r; and the xorg.conf file are listed below. I am running SL6 with all updates and packages installed. Any suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated. Thanks, Wil Hi Wil, Can I suggest you try the ATI driver package for EL6 from elrepo.org: http://elrepo.org http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-fglrx I believe the elrepo.org repository might already be installed under SL6. Once you have elrepo installed, you can install the ATI drivers with: yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-fglrx and if you need 32-bit application support on x86_64 then you should also install the fglrx-x11-drv-32bit package too. *Before* you install the elrepo packaged drivers, please uninstall the previous ATI installer drivers: sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh At the moment elrepo.org only has the 10.12 drivers for SL6 but I'll do my best to get those updated soon.
