I have just installed 11.7 under Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, and it fails to start whatsoever. After install, bascally nothing works that uses HW accel.
aticonfig finds the adapter alright, xorg.conf was set using --initial -f and it looks ok, however desktop is software emulated, glxgears crashes, and so on...
Any suggestions how to go about debugging?
I also could not install on Ubuntu 11.04
To those whom it may concern: could someone reflect on this topic? ATM it seems the 11.7 linux driver is a disaster.
Although nobody answered, I found that 11.7 works fine on a fresh install of Ubuntu, so there must be some mess-up with upgrading an installation with simply running the driver installer .sh
You might want to look into that. It's not the neatest way to do a monthly driver update. (Luckily, I had to do a reinstall for other reasons, but nonetheless, I do not wish to repeat this with 11.8)
i have better experience with --buildpkg option when all files from driver are tracked with package manager. but there is issue on 11.04 when OpenCL/GL interoperabilty isn't working.
I installed it on SuSE 11.4 x64, as upgrade from 11.6. No problems at all, it fixed a few instabilities, I'm happy with it. Performance is the same for me (or the change is less than 2% - normal fluctuations).
Did you run "/usr/share/ati/amd-uninstall.sh" before installing 11.7.
I had no problems.
Can you try this:
#cd /usr/share/ati
#amd-uninstall.sh --force
#reboot (then intall new driver)
Sometimes uninstall may not cleanup files untill you force it.