Software :: Video Overrides Everything Under Fglrx?
Jun 20, 2011
After installing proprietary graphics drivers for AMD A-50 APU graphics performance has been greatly increased. But two new problems have come up.
1. While playing video files clicking menus doesn't show anything, the video forcibly overrides the menus.
2. Videos always take the focus over other windows and applications.
For example, see the attached screenshot where actually terminal should come to the focus, but the video is overriding it.
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Jun 20, 2011
After installing proprietary graphics drivers for AMD A-50 APU graphics performance has been greatly increased. But two new problems have come up.
1. While playing video files clicking menus doesn't show anything, the video forcibly overrides the menus.
2. Videos always take the focus over other windows and applications.
For example, see the attached screenshot where actually terminal should come to the focus, but the video is overriding it.
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Jan 5, 2010
I'm running 9.10 x64 version on an Athlon II x4 with 4 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon HD 4770 card, using the fglrx driver. I'm also using Compiz.
However, I'm having a pretty major problem with video playback. Some time after starting playback, the entire system appears to freeze up. At least the video does, anyway. The audio continues to play, but the mouse is locked in place and the video frame doesn't move. I tried alt-prscr-k, but couldn't kill X. I tried ctrl-alt-f1 and f2 but again, no change. Ctrl-alt-delete had no response either. In the end, I've been having to use alt-prscr-REISUB to restart the machine.
This problem happens at unpredictable times. The other night, I watched about 1 and a half hours of DVD before it happened, and then after restarting I couldn't watch 10 seconds before freezing again. Just now, again, I started watching a video file, and the system locks up a few seconds in to the video, every time (and a different place every time).
I tried both the ati and radeonhd drivers as well, but I couldn't get the results I wanted with my 2-monitor display. I've only been able to get my monitors the way I want them using fglrx. But without being able to watch video, it's pointless anyway.
I'm lost for what to do... I've spend the last 24 hours installing and uninstalling and reinstalling the different ATI drivers over and over, only to come back to this problem. Is there something I'm missing completely?
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Feb 16, 2015
Just used Synaptic to update my video driver for the XFX RADEON R250x. It was working before when I had installed the drivers from the AMD site. But I was told I needed to use the kernel compatible, so I did this update. Now it boots up and hangs with blank screen where it would usually go to login. I've got a boot disc where I can boot into and we can look at the logs ....
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Jun 13, 2010
OpenSuse 11.2
linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop x86_64
ATI fglrx video driver v10.4
ATI radeon hd3200 video adapter
VirtualBox (any version) crashes at startup if the video acceleration options are enabled. This was not a problem before installing fglrx. The crash occurs when VirtualBox queries the video driver about OpenGL, I am guessing from the log file.
To (supposedly) have access to all of the features possible in the video adapter I installed the ATI fglrx video driver. I (apparently foolishly) chose the custom, installation-specific path rather than the more general default path.
After installing the driver I saw no observable improvement in performance or feature set. Worse, there are couple of new features that are decidedly undesirable, and cannot be disabled. At least one pre-loaded font simply disappeared.
So I reverted to the original (open source?) radeon driver ("sax2 -r -m 0=radeon" at runlevel 3). All seemed welluntil I ran VirtualBox.
One thing I have not tried is to run the fglrx default installation. I fear making things worse.
Can anyone suggest what might have happened with the fglrx installation, and how to fix it?
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Jan 7, 2010
I cannot boot my 9.10 system as of this morning. I see these messages:
insserv: warning: script 'dbus' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'gdm' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K20acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 's99webmin' missing LSB tags and overrides
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1
I then hear 2 or 3 faint clicks and I get a blank screen, with 2 faint lines at the top. I have been searching and trying to figure this out, but to no avail.
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Jul 11, 2011
I have installed ZendServer CE on my distro and I have tried to create a startup file in this way:I create the file httpd in the folder /etc/init.d
I run chmod 775 httpd
I execute chkconfig --add httpd on
But this is the message returned from system:
insserv: warning: script 'K01httpd' missing LSB tags and overrides
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Oct 15, 2010
I'm trying to figure out a bug with fglrx. Whenever I go to log a machine out, sometimes the screen will go black and never come out of it. Upon reviewing the system logs for XServer, I find the following:
(II) Keyboard2: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Mouse2: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[Code].....
For some reason, going back to the login screen will sometimes cause fglrx(0) to freak out and interrupt the logout process. how to force it to stop doing this or fix this issue? I'm using the ATI proprietary drivers with the latest version.
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Nov 23, 2009
It's been a while since I last used the fglrx drivers, especially on my laptop which has an AMD RS690 based video adapter. While the Open Source drivers get the job done most of the time, and especially with Compiz-Fusion (yay!) these drivers still lack much optimization and since they don't intend to optimize the OpenGL stack for the current drivers and instead they'll work on it for the Gallium3D drivers, the situation is not going to get much better any time soon. However the Free drivers have gotten very robust and with very good support all in all.At first I used the fglrx drivers, but went with the Open Drivers for two main reasons:Radeon drivers were the first to get true KMS support, so they fully supported Plymouth.
Fgrlx drivers had (or still have?) a hideous bug in that they would cause screen flicker and tearing all over the place if you had a composited desktop. Wasn't as bad with Metacity's Composer Manager compared to Compiz, but still very annoying. Also they didn't properly had (or still have) RandR 1.2 support which means that if you attach a secondary display, you can't configure it as a different screen at a different resolution (for instance, main laptop display running at native 1280x800 and the secondary screen, like a projector, running at 1024x768), which the Open drivers get most of the time (note this isn't perfect in the open drivers either).
So i wanted to give the fglrx drivers a whirl once again and see how do they run... However I do not fully remember the steps involved in getting Plymouth running with the VGA/VESA console driver and the fglrx drivers (all I can remember is that it involved rebuilding the initrd [which in F12 is initramfs] to leave out the Radeon driver and you could still use the vga=[mode] argument to get Plymouth), the only other thing I can remember is that you had to run plymouth-set-default-theme to get the theme back. The main thing stopping me from going back to fglrx is that I'm not sure if all the composite issues have been resolved.
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Nov 20, 2010
I traveled across the lands, searching far and wide.I found nothing that would fix my problem. Tried all the guides, copy/pasted so much script, but nothing works. This thing is like a damn virus, seriously.
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Jan 29, 2011
I have a HP Pavillion dv5 laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 series. It always worked fine with Ubuntu for as long as I can remember. However, at one point, something happened and truly made a majestic mess of things. It might've been extra repos I enabled with Ubuntu Tweak - I do not know. But something made it so that my system would not boot any longer.
And when I say "won't boot", this is what I mean:
- Durning a normal bootup, any entries (except Windows) selected with GRUB (or BURG, not even sure which one I'm using anymore) will spawn the Ubuntu loading screen.
- then try to start X (or GDM) 5 times. The screen goes to dark, black and back to the Ubuntu loading screen. Then it just stays there until I spawn another TTY.
I have no idea what is happening or why. There are no errors in my logs, and I'm truly at a loss here.
I've linked three files: Xorg.0.log, the output of dmesg and the GDM log:
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Mar 27, 2009
Everything tells me they are in RPMFusion, but for the life of me, I can't locate them...
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Oct 4, 2010
Install fglrx driver for ATI but it just installed for one old kernel 2.6.34.6-54. and 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686 i have also kernel 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE, how can i compile the fglrx for it?can i just copy fglrx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686.PAE/extra/catalyst/fglrx.ko to /lib/modules 2.6.34.7-56.fc13....
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Dec 23, 2010
ati proprietry fglrx driver in fedora 14, anyone know if this exists or where to get it? or is there some other way to get some 3d acceleration on fedora 14 with out it?
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May 3, 2011
I seem to have disrupted my display manager when I installed fglrx from the Ati repository,
I was trying to update the graphics drivers as i am getting a screen flicker every 10-15 seconds and its beginning to annoy me, so I add the ATi repository in yast, installed 'fglrx' and rebooted.
Everything went as it should until the graphical loader showed the bar at about 50% and the screen went black, my monitor reports that its out of range after a minute or so.
My graphics card is a HD4650 and the max res of my screen is 75Hz,
Ive managed to get the command line by booting to Failsafe and started KDM manually and i get the same thing.
Im assuming that the driver is correct but is setting the resolution or refresh rate too high?
Has anyone else had this problem? and can someone point me in the direction of editing aticonfig?
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May 23, 2010
I just installed Kubuntu 10.04 and I am experiencing problems with the fglrx diplay driver.I installed it with Jocky and rebooted.Everything works fine. But everything is so un-smooth. Like dragging & resizing windows.It's not updating instantly.It was smooth before installing fglrx but then I couldn't boot without nomodeset.I am using a widescreen LCD monitor.My xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
[code]....
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Jun 7, 2010
I recently reinstalled using the latest "respin" CD ISO. Before that, I had other problems with 10.04, but X and fglrx worked perfectly.
Now, X always comes up in 1600x1200 instead of the monitor native 1920x1200. I am still using the same on-board Radeon 4200. Supposedly this display adapter is very well supported by Linux???
I did an aticonfig --initial as suggested in the Known Lucid Lynx issues/bugs with workarounds thread, but when I restarted X I got a black screen, and when I rebooted, even though xorg.conf now says
Code:
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
The system still comes up in 1600x1200. Note it is on DVI and I never touched the hardware or put a bad cable on it since it was working with the first install of 10.04.
When I go into Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager, Display Properties tab, the highest resolution available is 1600x1200. I hand-edited X11 and restarted and ran for a while in 1920x1200, but that no longer works. Now I just get a black screen whenever I restart X, and it always starts in 1600x1200.
How do I convince fglrx that I really have a 1920x1200 monitor? (VP2330wb). It is really very blurry in 1600x1200.
EDIT: Ran get-edid, got:
Code:
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
[Code]....
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Sep 3, 2010
I turned off my machine and when I turned it back on it would only boot in low res mode.I cannot 'activate' the driver, gives me an error. Tried following options in 10 different threads here,10.04, was working fine for a month or more since upgrading. ATI 5770 card, driver is latest.
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Apr 3, 2011
I'm not 100% certain, but I'm fairly sure that fglrx is preventing clean shut downsHardware is an ASUS E-35M1-I Deluxe, so fairly new, and I'm running Ubuntu natty.I couldn't find anything damning in the logs under /var/log, so I'm not sure where I can look to find the specific errors. All I know is that when I'm running with fglrx shutdown takes forever, as if it's waiting for the X server, and it just never shuts down cleanly, but when I run with the standard radeon driver everything shuts down quickly and cleanly.Sometimes when I tried to execute a "service slim stop" or "service gdm stop", the whole system would hang, and needed a hard reset.
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Apr 24, 2011
So a few weeks ago, I was running Ubuntu/Windows7 Dual Boot, and I installed the proprietary FGLRX ATI graphics card driver. This rendered my Ubuntu system command-line only, and I had to install all over again. If I install FGLRX now, will this happen again or has the bug been fixed? If it does happen again, is there any way to revert to the open-source ATI driver from the command line?
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Apr 29, 2011
Looking at other threads i'm not the only one with this problem. after installing the proprietary driver, graphics are slow & 3D appears not to be working. fglrxinfo gives this:
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO
OpenGL version string: 3.3.10666 Compatibility Profile Context
No mention of "glx" or "direct rendering" as in previous versions. sudo aticonfig --initial -f gives this: Uninitialised file found, configuring. Fail to link to fglrx-libglx.so, please check whether driver is installed correctly Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.fglrx Apparently driver not installed correctly. Also there's no fglrx-modialases (or something) in synaptic thats been needed before.
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May 7, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and using the fglrx driver from repo, but i can't get 1366x768 resolution. I generate xorg.conf with "sudo X -configure" and put in the Modeline that was copied from windows powerstrip, which works fine under windows with catalyst. and restart X, the lcd gets 1366x768 resolution as expected. but the "sudo X -configure" generated xorg.conf was using "radeon" driver, but blender won't work with it, etc... I want to use "fglrx" driver. So I change the Driver section from "radeon" to "fglrx" and restart X, it wont start now, telling me that out of range or something.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
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May 8, 2011
In an attempt to correctly play Half-Life 2 in Wine, I installed the AMD driver downloaded from their site.
Code:
sudo sh ati-driver-installer-11-4-x86.x86_64.run
Reboot. Now, with both FireGL and this running a conflict is created. Naturally the system boots into command prompt. So:
[code]...
Reboot. Got OpenGL, but performance is choppy. Glxgears is very choppy.So how to revert to the old fglrx? There is an uninstall script at /usr/share/ati. Shall I run that or shall I reinstall all of the above removed packages beforehand?
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Jul 23, 2015
I cannot get my X working with fglrx.
Additional info:
Code: Select all# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
[Code] ....
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Mar 18, 2010
I have a problem with the Radeon 5670 and the fglrx driver in opensuse11.2. I've created a rpm from the newest ati*x86_64.run (catalyst10.2, witch should support the radeon 5600 series) and installed it following the "ATI-the hard way" instructions. Here is the resulting Xorg.0.log:
Code:
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux sissipc 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 x86_64
Build Date: 02 November 2009 12:04:43PM
[Code]...
"PCI bus 1 card 5 func 0" seems to be the Onboard-Graphics (Radeon 3200) and "PCI bus 2 card 0 func 0" i think is the Radeon5670 set as primary graphics adapter in the BIOS
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May 5, 2010
I did a fresh install of openSUSE 11.2 32 bit today and installed all updates. I also installed the kernel sources and kernel symbols. Finally I installed the ATI drivers from http:///www2.ati.com/suse/11.2. The drivers didn't work after that, so I tried to run the 32 bit driver installer suitable for my gfx card (Radeon X800 XT PE -> v9.3), where I got the following error message:
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
which: no XFree86 in (/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/home/schaeff/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin)
Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
[code]....
I had no such problems with openSUSE 11.1 32 bit. Is there a way to install the drivers on my system? If yes, how would I do it?
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Mar 12, 2011
I've been using fglrx since 11.3 came out, and I just upgraded to 11.4 today and noticed that my graphics card is now supported by the open-source radeon driver. I was trying to switch, but was never able to properly switch the driver and get radeon running. I've read many of the help pages, but still am unable to actually get radeon working.
Perhaps I'm missing something, such as not properly removing fglrx, but I'm not too sure.
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Sep 4, 2011
I'm running openSUSE 11.4 64 bit, KDE 4.7 with latest fglrx drivers. My laptop is a HP Pavilion dv6 with a ATi Mobility Radeon HD5650M.
The drivers themselves work fine, I get quite a good acceleration and I can choose between discrete and dedicated graphics just fine, but when I plug in the HDMI cable from my TV it just doesn't detect it. It works fine on Windows version of ATi CCC, but when I open CCC in openSUSE I only see my notebook's monitor, not a sign of the HDMI cable plugged in.
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Sep 10, 2011
I have an iMac which is able to run openSUSE whith some manual adjustments. However, fglrx is a naughty piece of driver that keeps stalling my normal boot. I have tried many different things already, with and without xorg.conf, with and without aticonfig --initial, nomodeset (as always), reinstall, etc etc but I can't figure it out.I am able to boot to runlevel 3, but init 5 gives me 2 black screens (Mac still responsive)
- iMac 27"
- Beamer connected
- using EFI/Elilo
[code]....
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May 28, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit version and everything worked fine so far except for the fglrx driver as it seems. I wasn't able to enable desktop effects and couldn't start games like openarena or nexuiz.
Therefore, I installed the fglrx driver from ATI's site and got everything working fine. Unfortunately it introduced a problem with vlc and the window manager in general. If I go into fullscreen in vlc it takes at least 2 seconds until the screen reacts. Also, if I tab through windows there is at least a second delay which is all very very annoying. I removed the driver again and re-installed fglrx from the repos. I now have two entries for the Catalyst Control Center (normal + administrative) under System->Prefrences which is annoying but not the reason for this thread.
The main problem remains the delay with window tabbing (with desktop effects disabled) and vlc going into fullscreen (this also applies for ..... videos which also lag in fullscreen mode).
The card is a Radeon HD 4830, processor is an AMD Phenom II X4 810.
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