[elrepo] Centos 7.4 and fglrx

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On October 15, 2017 7:18:41 AM GMT+03:00, Jeremy Schaeffer <kb9mfd at phonesplus.biz> wrote:
>Thank you for your help. Unfortunately the release on the amd site only
>supports 7.1 and older
The drivers do work in 7.3. I had them functional for a few days on a test machine but I had to replace the OS with EL6.

> (Xorg 1.10 and older) and I am guessing they
>have not updated the package (Xorg is showing version 1.19). 
Nice catch. I did not verify that although I did suspect it.


>It will
>not install either, complains incompatible version. From what I can
>tell this is a error between that version of X and the driver, either X
>no longer supports that symbol, changed its name or X is trying to use
>a new symbol that the driver does not have. At least that is what
>simular errors end up being. I guess I am stuck with a dead machine.
>Either I try to get amd to fix it or buy a different card (this one is
>on the motherboard) . I wonder what card is well supported and can be
>used for gaming. Thanks again, if I figure anything out I'll let you
>know. - Jeremy
>
>
ATI has indeed discontinued support for this driver. They do however offer a newer driver for newer chipsets. Unfortunately they decided to ship it in a format which would require way too much of my time to repackage, especially as I do not use either the supported chipsets or EL7.

Nvudia OTOH seems to be much more user friendly from this point of view and their drivers are extremely well maintained in ElRepo.


M.



>On October 14, 2017 7:06:02 PM CDT, Manuel Wolfshant
><wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> wrote:
>>On 10/15/2017 02:17 AM, Jeremy Schaeffer wrote:
>>> I downloaded it and it sort of installed. Dracut failed, said it
>>could 
>>> not install fglrx driver. I ran dracut manually and it did not 
>>> complain. But I have the same error in Xorg.0.conf where fglrx fails
>
>>> to inialize. ☹️
>>you did not pray before installing, did you ? :)
>>
>>I am afraid I do not know how to solve that for the moment, assuming
>it
>>
>>is solvable
>>the only thing I can suggest is to try to install the driver
>downloaded
>>
>>directly from ATI ( 
>>https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=RHEL%20x86%2064 ) in
>
>>order to verify that their driver is still compatible with the current
>
>>RHEL minor release. If you can install it then I will definitely do my
>
>>best to adapt the ElRepo packages
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> [root at timothy ~]# rpm -Uvh kmod-fglrx-15.12-7.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 
>>> fglrx-x11-drv-15.12-7.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>>> Preparing... ################################# [100%]
>>> Updating / installing...
>>> 1:kmod-fglrx-15.12-7.el7.elrepo ################################# [
>>50%]
>>> Working. This may take some time ...
>>> Done.
>>> 2:fglrx-x11-drv-15.12-7.el7.elrepo #################################
>
>>> [100%]
>>> Failed to install module fglrx
>>>
>>> Broadcast message from systemd-journald at timothy.schaeffer (Sat 
>>> 2017-10-14 16:00:50 CDT):
>>>
>>> dracut[16125]: Failed to install module fglrx
>>that's odd but I have to admit it did the same on my VM
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd at timothy at Oct 14 16:00:50 ...
>>> dracut:Failed to install module fglrx
>>> Uninitialised file found, configuring.
>>> Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>> Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-3
>>>
>>>
>>> [ 11.164] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
>>> [ 11.167] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so 
>>> <http://drv.so>
>>> [ 11.276] (EE) Failed to load 
>>> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so <http://drv.so>: 
>>> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so <http://drv.so>:
>>undefind 
>>> symbol: xf86Initialising
>>
>>I hope that there are no incompatible changes inside Xorg...
>>
>>
>>Manuel