topic title: Install proprietary ATI driver: HowTo?
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#1
Hello,
I have a radeon card on my pc: the open source driver is installed but there is a"DRM panic notifier".
I will try the ATI proprietary driver.
I worked according
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but the command"aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') fglrx-driver"
stopped with an Error and having a look at the make.log file

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DKMS make.log for fglrx-12-6+point for kernel 3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp (i686)
So 5. Apr 11:50:55 CEST 2015
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp'
  LD      /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/firegl_public.o
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_MEM_VM_MapRegion’:
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/firegl_public.c:3893:39: error: ‘VM_RESERVED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/firegl_public.c:3893:39: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build/firegl_public.o] Fehler 1
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/12-6+point/build] Fehler 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp'
Has somebody an Idea what should be done now?
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2

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"Some quick advice:

1. Choose your language before installation by pressing F2 at live boot grub.

2. Choose your prefered timezone by pressing F3 at live boot grub screen.

3. Have a read of the cheat options by pressing F1 at live boot grub screen.

4. Choose your preferred desktop environment by pressing F6 at live boot grub screen.

5. Use F5 to toggle graphics options.

6. F4 has extra cheats such as md5sum check and toram.

7. Use sgfxi (or smxi) to install nvidia/ATI drivers.

8. As antiX is a 'rolling release' distro it is advisable to run regular dist-upgrades. Using apt-get or install and use aptitude (but keep to one) from the command line is recommended, as is using the smxi script. Synaptic is best used for installing/upgrading individual packages.

9. You can safely use liquorix, aptosid, siduction and Debian kernels in antiX (if you wish). Use smxi.

10. You can set the autologin feature of SLiM in antiX Control Centre. You can also toggle F1 at the login screen to choose your desired desktop.

11. To install antiX to a usb device use the antix2usb gui application, UNetbootin or use dd for isohybrid.

12. Have a read of the antiX FAQ and the 'How To' articles at the antiX main site.
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Instructions for sgfxi and smxi below


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anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#3
You need to upgrade the kernel and headers. See 12 November post


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12 November 2013

New bug-fix kernels available

For those using antiX-13 series with the 3.7.10 kernel, you should update to the latest in the antiX stable repositories. The updated kernel fixes the bug of building applications that need to be built with Wheezy's libs and gcc.

Without going into detail, if you want to run antiX-13 series fixed to the Wheezy repository and want to install for example Virtualbox and nvidia drivers, you MUST install the latest 3.7.10.antix.7 kernel for your architecture for each application to build.
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#4
anticapitalista wrote:You need to upgrade the kernel and headers. See 12 November post
apt-get update && apt-get install linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-486-smp linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-486-smp
...
removing fglrx-driver ...
dpkg: error by working of fglrx-driver (--remove)
...
then it stop.

a
dpkg-reconfigure fglrx-driver days
fglrx-driver is defect or not completely installed.

What should I do?
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#5
apt-get purge fglrx-driver
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#6
anticapitalista wrote:apt-get purge fglrx-driver
same error
removing fglrx-driver ...
dpkg: error by working of fglrx-driver (--remove)

That fglrx-driver remove issue is blocking any system update .. upgrade etc.
How to get rid of it?
Last edited by floppy on 06 Apr 2015, 18:24, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#7
rokytnji wrote: Instructions for sgfxi and smxi below

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Thanks. It dont work (see the issue above).
The Ctrl-Alt-F1 bring me to a command line but how to start X again?
a"startx" give an error.
Posts: 604
thriftee
Joined: 27 Feb 2009
#8
Floppy,

Anticapitalista is the creator of antiX. People like roky are helping out, but anti is the person to listen to if he's telling you what to do.

if you did a ctrl-alt-f1, it probably took you to a console screen. Try ctrl-alt-f7 to get back to your X-windows screen.

I'm really no authority, but my guess is maybe it can't remove fglrx-driver because its running. My thought would be write down anti's instruction, and then at the X-windows session, you could try ctrl-alt-backspace which will kill the X-windows session, then login to the console session and then su to root, and then I think you can run the command anti gave you.

It looks to me like you would need to update-grub and reboot with the new kernel after that, but I'm not really sure because I've never done this for an ATI card myself.
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#9
My system was broken? it was impossible to desinstall fglrx.
a) I reinstalled all open source ATI drivers, then it was possible to clean from fglrx with --purge or other;
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b) I upgraded from V3 to kernel V7 as per indicated previous post
c) I installed fglrx with the script sgfxi
I had to use few steps in between (and look at google"desinstall broken fglrx install" etc. or
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Now, it seems to work fine. I will spend few more time to see if fglrx is working stable and fine. This was a hard piece of work. Thanks for all valuable suggestions here.
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#10
Now, how to upgrade to the newest BETA fglrx driver? I have"module version = 14.50.2" and the last one is 14.6 according
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The video are not flickering anymore (good) but the windows opening/moving is slow = it takes a lot of CPU.

Update: in order to load the BETA driver, I made"sgfxi -B" but it says there is no BETA driver for my card.
So, lets stop here: Video and Youtube are a bit better than the open source driver.
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#11
floppy wrote: The video are not flickering anymore (good) but the windows opening/moving is slow = it takes a lot of CPU.
I had to unclick the"Fluxbox Settings""Configuration""Opaque Window Moving" and the CPU is not used too much.
So, I am happy with the achieved status and will keep it as it is (I dont want to break it by installing new thinks.. = new bugs).
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#12
I had to unclick the"Fluxbox Settings""Configuration""Opaque Window Moving" and the CPU is not used too much.
Thanks for mentioning this. It's a fixer step that I usually need to do, and had forgotten where to (un)set it !
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#13
I tried today to update the ATI driver.
a) I started"sgfxi" outside X
b) It stopped because it seems it had not enough room on the HDD. So, I deleted several applications (Gnome Mplayer etc.).
c) I started sgfxi again with"sgfxi -f". It stop with following error:

Archive: ./amd-catalyst-15.7.1-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
Length Date Time Name
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183026126 2015-07-07 19:10 amd-catalyst-15.7.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run
10732 2015-07-10 08:37 amdLICENSE.txt
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183036858 2 files
fglrx zip extraction of run file succeeded.
fglrx zip extraction of run file successful.
Creating directory fglrx-install-15.7.1
Verifying archive integrity...Error in checksums: 3495720696 is different from 2857399942
ERROR: (196) The driver package: amd-catalyst-15.7.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run failed to extract and has been deleted.

What should I do?
For me, its curious because I have the impression I installed an Antix 32bits on my machine.

with dmesg Linux version 3.7.10-antix.7-486-smp (unknown) (root@antiX1) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) ) #4 SMP Tue Nov 12 13:37:53 EET 2013
anticapitalista
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#14
Is it because the amd-catalyst-15.7.1-linux-x86.x86_64.zip is not 32 bit but 64 bit?
Posts: 64
floppy
Joined: 26 Dec 2010
#15
How to know if I have antix 32 or 64 bits installed?