[elrepo] Latest Fglrx Drivers

Mon Oct 26 15:51:39 EDT 2015

On 26 octombrie 2015 21:19:29 EET, "Williams, Roy" <rwilli95 at uncc.edu> wrote:
>Hello Manuel,
>
>Is it a problem you don't have a machine to test against? 
Exactly


>I can provide
>access to a machine to test against remotely, not sure what kind of
>testing
>you currently do under EL6. 
Thank you for your ofer. What I need is to [literally] see that
- the PC boots
- it enters runlevel 5
- X stsrts succesfuly
- the desktop env of choice starts sucessfully
 With the current packages, the last 2 steps do not always happen. I have a feeling tgar there is a race between ATI's daemon and "something" else (I suspect acpid).  Due to this problem the user is presented with a black screen, leaving the impression that the system is frozen. IIRC from my tests,one can switch to a text console, restart ATI's daemon and X continues its normal startup process. But this is obviously not the normal&desired approach. While I still had a "victim" to test on I tried playing with the service file that I had written for  the daemon but unfortunately I had to install EL6 on that PC and hand it to its user prior to reaching a satisfactory result.
And I have zero incentive so far to make friends with systemd so I do not know how to solve the problem.


>We actually have a need for the fglrx
>driver
>under EL7 for our environment.
>
If you are willing to test, I could provide updated packages for testing purposes by the end of this week, but with no guarantees regarding the problem that I detailed earlier

>Regards,
>Roy
>
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Manuel Wolfshant
><wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
>wrote:
>
>> On 26 octombrie 2015 18:14:31 EET, dominic at dcrdev.com wrote:
>> >I don't suppose there's any chance of an el7 package? I'd be more
>than
>> >willing to test it!
>> >
>> You can find a test package (newer than what's in elrepo's testing
>but
>> older than what ATI currently ships) on my personal  website,
>> wdl.lug.ro/fglrx
>> I could update to the new ATI release pretty soon but my problem is
>that I
>> am afraid that the incompatibility between atidaemon and systemd will
>still
>> be there. And I have no system to experiment with, our ecosystem is
>EL6.
>>
>>
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >
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>> >> Message: 1
>> >> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:48:44 +0000
>> >> From: dominic at dcrdev.com
>> >> To: elrepo at lists.elrepo.org
>> >> Subject: [elrepo] Latest Fglrx Drivers
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>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm in the process of migrating to CentOS - my system has a recent
>> >AMD
>> >> APU and am looking to install the fglrx driver.
>> >>
>> >> I noticed that kmod-fglrx is no longer in the main repo, but only
>in
>> >> the
>> >> "testing" repo.
>> >>
>> >> Is fglrx still being maintained, if so are there any plans to
>package
>> >a
>> >> more up-to-date version i.e. the 15.x series?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Message: 2
>> >> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:52:10 +0200
>> >> From: Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
>> >> To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
>> >> Subject: Re: [elrepo] Latest Fglrx Drivers
>> >> Message-ID: <562E05DA.10506 at nobugconsulting.ro>
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>> >>
>> >> On 10/26/2015 12:48 PM, dominic at dcrdev.com wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm in the process of migrating to CentOS - my system has a
>recent
>> >AMD
>> >>> APU and am looking to install the fglrx driver.
>> >>>
>> >>> I noticed that kmod-fglrx is no longer in the main repo, but only
>in
>> >>> the "testing" repo.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is fglrx still being maintained, if so are there any plans to
>> >package
>> >>> a more up-to-date version i.e. the 15.x series?
>> >>
>> >> I am maintaining it but since I do not have in use any system
>running
>> >> EL7, I have pushed updates only for EL6.
>> >> http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2015-July/002677.html --
>I
>> >am
>> >> using these packages on the system I am mailing from in this
>moment
>> >>
>> >>
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