[elrepo] kmod-fglrx under SL7.2

[Maarten]

Hello Manuel,

Thanks for the reply, I am able to play videos via vlc with no problems. 
As soon as I boot kodi my screen looks like this(see attachment). I am 
not able to even navigate the menu that's how bad the screen looks. My 
Xorg.log looks good, no strange errors or other things that don't seem 
right.

http://tinypic.com/r/347z6gj/9



On 2016-12-03 17:54, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 12/03/2016 05:57 PM, Maarten wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just installed a system with SL7.2, wanted to be able to view hd
>> videos I installed the drivers from ati website:
>> 
>> 
> http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=RHEL%20x86%2064&rev=15.9
>> 
>> 
>> After installing those I get a blank screen after the system
>> finishes booting, so I thought I'd try the one from the elrepo
>> repository:
>> 
>> https://www.elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-fglrx
>> 
>> Now my system boots all the way and I have the ati control panel,
>> but when I boot kodi the screen goes all flashy, as in flickering
>> between black, blue, and white.
>> 
>> Only thing is at boot I get the following error: no ums support in
>> radeon.
>> 
>> I tried several boot options which I found on different forum topic
>> posts, without succes. I have the following videocard:
>> 
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
>> 
>> HD Radeon HD 5450. Is this package not supported with SL7/rhel7 or
>> am I missing something?
> 
> Hello
> 
> The drivers we ship are exactly the same as the ones from AMD , but
> differently packaged ( in a way which takes advantage of the stable
> ABI of the kernel, thus not requiring reinstalling after each kernel
> upgrade ). We ship the version you mentioned but also the newer one (
> 15.12 [1]). Once CentOS 7.3 is out I will also try to package 16.10
> [2]
> 
> As of your issue: the message about missing UMS support is not
> important, AFAIK.  If everything  is OK you should get in the Xorg.log
> something similar to:
> 
> [  69.734] (II) Loading
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so
> [    69.761] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
> [    69.778] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> [    69.954] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies
> Inc."
> [    69.976] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
> [    69.976] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
> [    69.976] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
> [    70.001] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies
> Inc."
> followed by a whole bunch of lines prefixed with fglrx:
> 
> [    71.848] (**) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
> [    71.848] (**) fglrx(0): AMD 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
> [    71.848] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 8570D" (Chipset =
> 0x990e)
> [    71.848] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1458, PciSubDevice =
> 0xd000)
> [    71.848] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics
> adapter - NOT original AMD
> [    71.848] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xc0000000
> [    71.848] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xfeb00000
> [    71.848] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x0000f000
> [    71.848] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
> [    71.850] (II) fglrx(0): ATIF platform detected
> [    71.850] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
> [    71.868] (II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> and many many more
> 
>     If only kodi is the application that triggers bad effects, you
> should look into tweaking it, I know that it likes to have direct
> access to hardware. You could even run it directly, by using
> http://kodi.wiki/view/OpenELEC.
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64
> [2]
> https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx
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