8.18.8-r2 was marked stable for amd64 recently. emerge ati-drivers failed to compile the kernel module. Complaining about "dereference incomplete type" at /var/tmp/portage/ati-drivers-8.18.8-r2/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2264 8.14.13's been working fine with direct rendering. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge ati-drivers 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fno-enforce-eh-specs -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ithreads jpeg junit kde lcms libwww lua lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir math mhash mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline real sdl slang snmp spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I made my own ebuild for ati-drivers-extra-8.20.8 it fails during compile: >>> Source unpacked. * Building fgl_glxgears gcc -o fgl_glxgears -Wall -g -D USE_GLU -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lm fgl_glxgears.c * Building the QT fglx panel... gcc -c -g -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -funsigned-char -Dlinux -DFGLRX_USE_XEXTENSIONS -DFGLRX_OGL_INFO -DQT_NO_STL -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I./include_dummy FGLRXExtensions.c gcc -c -g -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -funsigned-char -Dlinux -DFGLRX_USE_XEXTENSIONS -DFGLRX_OGL_INFO -DQT_NO_STL -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I./include_dummy ATITVOExtensions.c g++ -c -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -funsigned-char -Wall -W -Dlinux -DFGLRX_USE_XEXTENSIONS -DFGLRX_OGL_INFO -DQT_NO_STL -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -I./include_dummy main.cpp In file included from FGLRXExtensions.c:29: R200_extensions.h:54:28: fglrx_pp_proto.h: No such file or directory make: *** [FGLRXExtensions.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... !!! ERROR: x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.20.8 failed.
t35t0r adding completely unrelated issue on bugs doesn't help me solving them, please check if there is another bug open and, since the issue should be fixed, reemerge the ati-drivers-extra package
using a .14 kernel solves the issue?
Luca: I'm holding off upgrading to 2.6.14-r2 because it doesn't play nice with the ndiswrapper that I have to use to get wireless working. OTOH, I tried the latest ati-drivers-8.20.8. It emerged fine - dri works! and about 20% faster than the old driver. But it failed to read EDID information: (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: LCD on internal LVDS (II) fglrx(0): Display1: No EDID information from DDC. (II) fglrx(0): Derived EDID from BIOS and internal tables for Display1: (II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data --------------------------- (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: MS_ Model: 0 Serial#: 0 (II) fglrx(0): Year: 1990 Week: 0 It comes up with weird resolutions( DPI 81x67) instead of the normal 75x75. I have to use DisplaySize to correct it. The 8.14.13 driver works with DDC just fine (so the resolution is automatically set correctly): (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (II) Loading sub module "i2c" (II) LoadModule: "i2c" (II) Loading /usr/lib64/modules/libi2c.a (II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.2.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (II) fglrx(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized. (II) fglrx(0): Connector Layout from BIOS -------- (II) fglrx(0): Connector1: DDCType-3, DACType-0, TMDSType--1, ConnectorType-2 (**) fglrx(0): MonitorLayout Option: Monitor1--Type AUTO, Monitor2--Type AUTO
moved on to newer driver.
