Bug 4767 - Lost functioning fglrx driver with today's update
Summary: Lost functioning fglrx driver with today's update
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anssi Hannula
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Reported: 2012-03-02 06:23 CET by Drew Edwards
Modified: 2012-03-02 19:59 CET (History)
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Source RPM: fglrx-8.930-2.mga2.nonfree.src.rpm
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Description Drew Edwards 2012-03-02 06:23:59 CET 
Description of problem:

After getting today's updates from cauldron (including new kernel and fglrx) I get an error message as X starts telling me it is reverting to the 'ati' driver because the fglrx driver is not installed.

The graphics in this notebook is provided by an amd e-350 apu, identified by lspcidrake as such:


Card:ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeon/fglrx): ATI Technologies Inc|Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:9802 subv:17aa subd:21df)


I tried uninstalling all packages with names containing 'fglrx', rebooted and used XFdrake to select the proprietary driver again, it seemed to install everything, but once again after rebooting I got the error message telling me that fglrx was not installed.

rpm -qa | grep -i 'fglrx'
fglrx-control-center-8.930-2.mga2.nonfree
fglrx-kernel-3.2.7-desktop-1.mga2-8.920-14.mga2.nonfree
fglrx-kernel-3.2.9-desktop-1.mga2-8.930-1.mga2.nonfree
fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest-8.930-1.mga2.nonfree
x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.930-2.mga2.nonfree
dkms-fglrx-8.930-2.mga2.nonfree


also:

rpm -qa | grep -i 'kernel'
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20111229-1.mga2.nonfree
kernel-desktop-3.2.6-3.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-firmware-20111229-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-3.2.9-1.mga2
fglrx-kernel-3.2.7-desktop-1.mga2-8.920-14.mga2.nonfree
kernel-desktop-devel-3.2.9-1.mga2-1-1.mga2
fglrx-kernel-3.2.9-desktop-1.mga2-8.930-1.mga2.nonfree
kernel-desktop-latest-3.2.9-1.mga2
fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest-8.930-1.mga2.nonfree
kernel-userspace-headers-3.2.9-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-devel-3.2.6-3.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-3.2.7-1.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-3.2.9-1.mga2-1-1.mga2
kernel-desktop-devel-3.2.7-1.mga2-1-1.mga2


and:

uname -r
3.2.9-desktop-1.mga2




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

8.930-2.mga2


How reproducible:

Up-to-date cauldron, attempt to install and use fglrx driver on this hardware.

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Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-02 12:39:08 CET

CC: (none) => tmb
Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannula

Comment 2 Anssi Hannula 2012-03-02 19:59:11 CET 
This should be fixed in harddrake-13.89.1. With that version installed the driver will not be changed back to ati/radeon.

The issue was that harddrake didn't recognize XZ compressed proprietary driver modules and therefore thought that the proprietary driver was not installed and switched to the free driver.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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