[elrepo] Latest Fglrx Drivers

[Williams, Roy]

Hello Manuel,

I did test against my card I have a Radeon R9 290 and the packages I
installed were fglrx-x11-drv-14.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64,
fglrx-x11-drv-32bit-14.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64, and
kmod-fglrx-14.9-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 and ran a few different programs for
testing, StarCCM+, tested some WebGL demos. I can confirm against KDE and
Gnome environments things are sane. I've rebooted serveral different times
and can jump around virtual consoles. I also have tested against an older
Radeon HD 6950 card I had available. I should be able to test against some
campus machines that are running FireGL cards. However I did notice that it
seems to be using the legacy format for atieventsd, but from what I
understand this is fine since systemctl will deal with those accordingly.
Although I suspect that init script should be converted at some point.

At least for me it seems stable on my end.

Roy Williams (rwilli95 at uncc.edu)



On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
wrote:

> On 10/28/2015 02:58 PM, dominic at dcrdev.com wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned I'd be willing to test as well, if needs be I can give you
>> remote access to a machine as well.
>>
>> Probably a naive question but since fglrx 15.9 has RHEL 7.1 support out
>> of the box, shouldn't it be compatible with systemd?
>>
>     I had no opportunity to test any version on a CentOS 7 since November
> or Dec 2014. What I DID notice when I created the packages for 15.7 was
> that ALL the rpm packages that could be downloaded from ATI were identical,
> independent of the major OS release version:
> [wolfy at wolfy elrepo]$ rpmdev-diff
> fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel6_64a.rpm
> fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel7_64a.rpm
> [wolfy at wolfy elrepo]$ ll
> total 290540
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy 148591223 Jul 27 09:59
> fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel6_64a.rpm
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy 148591213 Jul 27 09:59
> fglrx64_p_i_c-15.20.1046-1.x86_64_rhel7_64a.rpm
>
>     And, with no surprise, the ouput of rpm -qlp on the two packages is
> also identical:
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy      7221 Jul 27 10:06 rhel6.txt
> -rw-rw-r--.   1 wolfy wolfy      7221 Jul 27 10:06 rhel7.txt
>
>     As far as I can see the only difference is the build time. But, as I
> said, I had no chance to test on a CentOS 7 and verify their behavior. I'll
> try to take a peek one of the next days ( or better said, nights :)  my
> boss just came with new ideas so I am really swamped at work).
>
>
> Or is there something specific that has to happens with the kmod drivers,
>> that differ from the AMD installer?
>>
>> I will not bet my beer on this but I am pretty sure that the AMD packages
> do not take advantage of the weak-updates mechanism.
>
>
>             Manuel
>
>
>     PS: thank you for the offer.
>
>
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