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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/2016 05:57 PM, Maarten wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:f4ddd344dee6a659fd388203e64843bd@webmail.feedmebits.nl"
type="cite">Hello,
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I just installed a system with SL7.2, wanted to be able to view hd
videos I installed the drivers from ati website:
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=RHEL%20x86%2064&rev=15.9">http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/previous/detail?os=RHEL%20x86%2064&rev=15.9</a>
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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:
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-fglrx">https://www.elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-fglrx</a>
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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.
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Only thing is at boot I get the following error: no ums support in
radeon.
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I tried several boot options which I found on different forum
topic posts, without succes. I have the following videocard:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
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HD Radeon HD 5450. Is this package not supported with SL7/rhel7 or
am I missing something?
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<p>Hello</p>
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<p>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 ( <a
href="https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64">15.12
</a>). Once CentOS 7.3 is out I will also try to package <a
href="https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx">16.10</a><br>
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<p>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:</p>
<p>[ 69.734] (II) Loading
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so<br>
[ 69.761] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"<br>
[ 69.778] (II) Loading
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so<br>
[ 69.954] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies
Inc."<br>
[ 69.976] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"<br>
[ 69.976] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"<br>
[ 69.976] (II) Loading
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so<br>
[ 70.001] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD
Technologies Inc."<br>
followed by a whole bunch of lines prefixed with fglrx:</p>
<p>[ 71.848] (**) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO<br>
[ 71.848] (**) fglrx(0): AMD 2D Acceleration Architecture
enabled<br>
[ 71.848] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 8570D"
(Chipset = 0x990e)<br>
[ 71.848] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1458, PciSubDevice =
0xd000)<br>
[ 71.848] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party
graphics adapter - NOT original AMD<br>
[ 71.848] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at
0xc0000000<br>
[ 71.848] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xfeb00000<br>
[ 71.848] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x0000f000<br>
[ 71.848] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000<br>
[ 71.850] (II) fglrx(0): ATIF platform detected<br>
[ 71.850] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used<br>
[ 71.868] (II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000<br>
and many many more</p>
<p> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kodi.wiki/view/OpenELEC">http://kodi.wiki/view/OpenELEC</a>.</p>
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