[elrepo] Centos 7.4 and fglrx

[Jeremy Schaeffer]

On 10/15/2017 2:21 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> 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

I ended just giving up. The AGPPRO is also not compatible with 7.4, ATI 
is behind in their drivers. I eventually just bought a GForce card and 
that driver was updated a month ago and works great. Thanks for the 
help! - Jeremy