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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #328856
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 328856

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Mark Falcey (mfalcey) wrote :

OK, I finally got around to trying again with the 9.4 driver fglrx-8.602 on my amd64 Hardy ubuntustudio.

Automatic installer gave me these messages in /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.602/source ->
                 /usr/src/fglrx-8.602

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
pushd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.602/build; sh make.sh --nohints; popd.....
[Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.602 with DKMS
[Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.602 from DKMS

Manual build got me this

(Reading database ... 313846 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.602-0ubuntu1 (using
xorg-driver-fglrx_8.602-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xorg-driver-fglrx ...
Preparing to replace fglrx-kernel-source 2:8.602-0ubuntu1 (using
fglrx-kernel-source_8.602-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules

Error! There are no instances of module: fglrx
8.602 located in the DKMS tree.
Done.
Unpacking replacement fglrx-kernel-source ...
Preparing to replace fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.602-0ubuntu1 (using
fglrx-amdcccle_8.602-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fglrx-amdcccle ...
Setting up fglrx-kernel-source (2:8.602-0ubuntu1) ...
Adding Module to DKMS build system
Doing initial module build

Error! Patch fglrx-rt-compat.patch as specified in dkms.conf cannot be
found in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.602/build/patches/.
Installing initial module

Error! Could not locate fglrx.ko for module fglrx in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.24-24-rt (x86_64) first.
Done.

Setting up xorg-driver-fglrx (2:8.602-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up fglrx-amdcccle (2:8.602-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

What I discovered was that the patch is not put in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.602/build/patches/ but in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.602/build/patches/patches. This fglrx.ko thing is also a little troubling.