Bug 188791 – x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.40.4 - AMD "Testing use only"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED LATER

[Description inode77 2007-08-14 06:42:54 UTC]

After installing "x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.40.4" a overlay rectangle appears in the lower right corner. It states "AMD Testing use only" and is always on top.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Overlay is shown.

Expected Results:  
No overlay.

Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -Os -msse3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -Os -msse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo ccache cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode evo expat fam firefox gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn ipv6 java jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libnotify logrotate mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse ps2mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 06:45:00 UTC]

Hahaha; well nothing we could do except dropping the keyword.

[Comment 2 Dawid Węgliński (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 06:52:10 UTC]

*** Bug 188793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 06:58:51 UTC]

Hmmm, LOL, this is displayed on x86 as well? Well, I guess this thing can go to /dev/null completely then.

[Comment 4 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 07:14:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Hmmm, LOL, this is displayed on x86 as well? Well, I guess this thing can go to
> /dev/null completely then.
> 

I hope to have a version without that annoying watermark ASAP.
As always, feel free to unmerge/mask it.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 07:15:40 UTC]

Well, can you at least p.mask it? I certainly don't want to receive any dupes about this.

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2007-08-14 07:18:06 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Well, can you at least p.mask it? I certainly don't want to receive any dupes
> about this.
> 

Done!

[Comment 7 A Blamey 2007-08-14 11:18:49 UTC]

There's an easy fix for this described here:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ec53bec617e954f2cb5c6f33849c63bc&t=4235&page=5

I'm not familiar with how the ebuild uses the ati-driver installer script/binary, but it could copy the string found on the 'signature=' line into the file /etc/ati/signature.

I've done this manually and it's fixed the problem for me.

[Comment 8 Dieter Ries 2007-08-14 14:17:38 UTC]

Yes, fixed it here, too.
I did the following:

./ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run --extract && cp ./fglrx-install.c6g5KH/common/etc/ati/signature /etc/ati/

After restarting X, the watermark had vanished.

cu
Dieter

[Comment 9 Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini 2007-08-15 12:11:40 UTC]

Created attachment 128156 [details, diff]
A proposed patch

Just install the "signature" file into /etc/ati

bye

[Comment 10 Jeffrey Gardner (RETIRED) 2007-08-15 15:02:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Created an attachment (id=128156) [edit]
> A proposed patch
> 
> Just install the "signature" file into /etc/ati
> 
> bye
> 

It's been done since yesterday. Is anyone still having problems?