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| Jaime Peña Álvarez (jamesrock7) wrote Re: [Bug 1513928] Re: AMD Catalyst (amdcccle) - 4.2 Linux Kernel bug | #3 |
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Dear Christopher:
I hope you are fine today.
I've just upgraded my BIOS to 1.50, and the notebook works the same way
than before. I want to remember you that I am using the proposed fglrx
drivers rather than the released ones (
https:/
2:15.201-
for me since I upgraded the drivers.
What else I could do now?
Best regards,
Jaime.
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*El Señor cumplirá en mí su propósito. Tu gran amor, Señor, perdura para
siempre; ¡no abandones la obra de tus manos!*
*Salmo 138:8 (Nueva Versión Internacional NVI
<https:/
2015-11-07 10:24 GMT-03:00 Christopher M. Penalver <
<email address hidden>>:
> Jaime Peña Álvarez, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
> better.
>
> As per http://
> an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available
> (1.50). If you update to this following
> https:/
>
> If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide
> the output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https:/
> .
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the
> information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.
> Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.50
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> report.
> https:/
>
> Title:
> AMD Catalyst (amdcccle) - 4.2 Linux Kernel bug
>
> Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Xubuntu 15.10 does not detect a AMD card, hence AMD Catalyst
> (amdcccle) does not work. First, it is necessary to initialize it,
> first rebooting the system after installation of fglrx-updates,
> copying the /usr/lib/fglrx folder to /usr/lib64/fglrx, and using
> "aticonfig --initial". In spite of that, these steps are not enough
> due to the bug, that it is temporally solved by installing wily-
> proposed files, as described in :
>
> http://
> Fix
>
> A Fix For AMD Catalyst On Ubuntu 15.10 Is Coming
> Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 27 October 2015 at 05:36 PM EDT. 25
> Comments
> While Ubuntu 15.10 launched last week, the AMD Catalyst driver hasn't
> been working but that's in the process of changing.
>
> While there's been patches for letting AMD Catalyst work on Ubuntu up
> through the Linux 4.2 kernel, the binary driver has ended up failing
> to work on Ubuntu's 4.2 kernel as found in Ubuntu 15.10. So even right
> now with a sudo apt-get install fglrx on Ubuntu 15.10, the driver will
> not work.
>
> As reported in the earlier article, users have found the workaround to
> be just downgrading to the Linux 4.1 kernel where the patched Catalyst
> 15.9 driver then plays happy. However, this new workaround that's in
> the process of landing in the Wily archive, fixes the issue by
> building the fglrx driver's shim against GCC 4.9 rather than GCC 5.
>
> Alberto Milone pushed a fixed driver into wily-proposed. "Add a
> dependency on gcc-4.9, and force fglrx to use gcc-4.9. This prevents
> fglrx from dying on initialisation. Credit for finding out the actual
> problem and for suggesting a workaround goes to David Burrows. Note:
> this is only a workaround, and it will be dropped as soon as a proper
> fix from upstream is available."
>
> This lengthy bug report details the struggle people have faced in
> getting AMD's proprietary driver working on this newest Ubuntu Linux
> release. If you want to get your Ubuntu 15.10 box running with AMD's
> blob prior to the new update landing in the official Ubuntu package
> archive, you can follow the steps for using the driver from wily-
> proposed via this bug comment.
>
>
> and
>
>
>
> https:/
>
> Comment 123 for bug 1493888
> Đorđe (djole94hns) wrote on 2015-10-27: #123
> @Mikael Thurberg
>
> -In Software & Updates, tick "proposed"
> -Create the file /etc/apt/
> content:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=wily-proposed
> Pin-Priority: 400
>
> Just so you don't install proposed updates automatically, but
> selectively (so you can choose which to install)
>
> -sudo apt-get update
> -sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates/
> fglrx-updates-
> -reboot and you're done!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
> Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSign
> Uname: Linux 4.2.0-17-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelMo
> ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> CompizPlugins: No value set for
> `/apps/
> CompositorRunning: None
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Fri Nov 6 15:29:55 2015
> DistUpgraded: Fresh install
> DistroCodename: wily
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> DkmsStatus:
> fglrx-updates-core, 15.201, 4.2.0-16-generic, x86_64: installed
> fglrx-updates-core, 15.201, 4.2.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
> ExtraDebuggingI
> GraphicsCard:
> Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
> [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:f945]
> Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:f945]
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-25 (377 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64
> (20141022.1)
> MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite P55-B
> ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
> root=UUID=
> SourcePackage: xorg
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2014
> dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.bios.version: 1.40
> dmi.board.
> dmi.board.name: VG20SQ
> dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.board.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
> dmi.chassis.
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.chassis.
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:
> dmi.product.name: Satellite P55-B
> dmi.product.
> dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
> version.compiz: compiz N/A
> version.
> version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
> version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.65+
> version.
> 11.0.4~
> version.
> version.
> 11.0.4~
> version.
> version.
> 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
> version.
> 1:7.5.99+
> version.
> 2:2.99.
> version.
> 1:1.0.11+
> xserver.bootTime: Fri Nov 6 15:15:00 2015
> xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> xserver.errors:
> Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section.
> AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/
> error[/
> file: No such file or directory]
> AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/
> error[/
> file or directory]
> AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/
> error[/
> file: No such file or directory]
> xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
> xserver.
>
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