[elrepo] ATI (fglrx) drivers version 15.9 & EL7

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 11/10/2015 09:08 PM, Williams, Roy wrote:
> Wolfy,
>
> I guess that makes sense, but from what I've seen the xorg.conf file 
> isn't there under normal circumstances at least when using the normal 
> Xorg drivers. What I was getting at is, that the user has to run that 
> command after installing the rpm. I'm not sure "amdconfig --initial" 
> handles all cases well enough to include that as a post install 
> function of the rpm.
>
> Thanks again for the information,
> Roy
Indeed, autodetect works mostly fine with the stock drivers. However 
this does not seem to be ( or was not.. ) the case for the proprietary 
driver. We use this approach ( backup existing config, if any, create 
new config via amdconfig --initial ; restore initial config at uninstall 
time ) since ages ans so far no one complained. The only issue I've seen 
came with the case of multiple monitors ( as is the case in the company 
I work for ): generally people are not 100% happy with the default 
config that gets created and we need to adjust it ( swap monitors for 
instance ) via amdcccle


Can you please test the new package ( 15.9-2 ) on as many systems as you 
can afford ? The other tester faced an odd situation, the file 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf is ignored, the stock glx.so gets 
loaded and the server segfaults:

[    22.889] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[    22.889] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    22.889] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    22.889] (==) ServerLayout "aticonfig Layout"
[    22.889] (**) |-->Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" (0)
[    22.889] (**) |   |-->Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
[    22.889] (**) |   |-->Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
[    22.889] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    22.889] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    22.889] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    22.889] (==) FontPath set to:
	catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
	built-ins
[    22.889] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
[    22.889] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[    22.889] (II) Loader magic: 0x7fbd30137020
[...]
[    22.893] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
[    22.893] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    22.894] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[    22.898] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    22.898] 	compiled for 1.15.0, module version = 1.0.0
[    22.898] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 8.0
[    22.898] (==) AIGLX enabled
[    22.898] Loading extension GLX
[    22.898] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
[    22.898] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
[    22.951] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
[    22.951] 	compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 15.20.3
[    22.951] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    22.953] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
[    22.953] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[    22.953] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
[    22.954] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
[    22.954] 	compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 15.20.3
[    22.954] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:15.20.3
[    22.954] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: UNSUPPORTED-15.201.1151
[    22.954] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Sep  8 2015 15:06:35