[om-qa-alerts] [Bug 1927] New: Reply to Ben Bullard

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Mon Oct 10 18:08:32 EDT 2016


https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1927

            Bug ID: 1927
           Summary: Reply to Ben Bullard
           Product: Openmandriva Lx 3.0
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: Video
          Assignee: om-qa-alerts at ml.openmandriva.org
          Reporter: sladewski at alumni.uoguelph.ca
        QA Contact: itchka at compuserve.com

Hi Ben Bullard,

Yes, I am certainly going to try Alexander's suggestion.  This past weekend was
Canadian Thanksgiving and I had company over the weekend, so I haven't had time
install them.  But here is what I've done so far.  I successfully  downloaded
the rpm packages with a few lines of bash:

    #!/bin/bash

    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/media_info"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64d3dadapter9_1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64d3dadapter9-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-intel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-nouveau-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-radeon-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-swrast-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-virtio-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64dri-drivers-vmwgfx-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64egl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64egl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64gbm1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64gbm-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64gl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glapi0-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glapi-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64gl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glesv1_1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glesv1-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glesv2_2-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glesv2-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64glesv3-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64opencl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64opencl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64osmesa8-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64osmesa-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64va-drivers-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64vdpau-driver-nouveau-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64vdpau-driver-r300-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64vdpau-driver-r600-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64vdpau-driver-radeonsi-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64vdpau-driver-softpipe-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64wayland-egl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64wayland-egl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64xatracker2-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64xatracker-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/lib64XvMCgallium1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/mesa-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"
    wget
"http://abf-downloads.openmandriva.org/3.0/container/80630/x86_64/main/release/mesa-common-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm"


and I'm planning to install them later this evening with this script:

    #!/bin/bash

    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64d3dadapter9_1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64d3dadapter9-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-intel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs
./lib64dri-drivers-nouveau-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-radeon-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-swrast-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-virtio-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64dri-drivers-vmwgfx-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64egl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64egl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64gbm1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64gbm-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64gl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glapi0-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glapi-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64gl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glesv1_1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glesv1-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glesv2_2-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glesv2-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64glesv3-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64opencl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64opencl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64osmesa8-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64osmesa-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64va-drivers-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs
./lib64vdpau-driver-nouveau-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64vdpau-driver-r300-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64vdpau-driver-r600-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs
./lib64vdpau-driver-radeonsi-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs
./lib64vdpau-driver-softpipe-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64wayland-egl1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64wayland-egl-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64xatracker2-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64xatracker-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./lib64XvMCgallium1-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./mesa-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    urpmi --replacepkgs ./mesa-common-devel-12.0.3-1-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm


I'm going to give this a try when I can take my machine offline later tonight. 
Any advice from you would be much appreciated.  This is my first time using
OpenMandrva and it has been a very long time since I have installed any rpm
packages.  Is my installation script going to work for me?  And what can I do
to make sure that xorg is going to use the right drivers for my ATI HD-7770? 
I'm assuming that I might need to create an xorg.conf file.  Does anyone have a
working xorf.conf file that I can use as an example?

I am also not sure whether to use the radeon driver or the amdgpu driver.  In
the GUI video setup utility there is an option for fglrx, but as I recall, the
amdgpu driver was introduced in kernel 4.5 to replace the fglrx driver.  And
the fglrx driver was deprecated entirely in kernel 4.6.  My everyday operating
system is Ubuntu-Gnome, Trusty, 14.04 LTS.  I'm using kernel 4.4.24 with the
proprietary fglrx driver and everything works flawlessly.  I am also able to
run Ubuntu-Gnome, Xenial, 16.04, running the amdgpu driver with kernel 4.4.0
and also run with the amdgpu driver on Archlinux with kernel 4.7.7.  I hope
this information is of some help.

It would be of great if anyone knows which driver, radeon or amdgpu, I should
be using with OpenMandriva.  I'm sorry about the length of this email.

With thanks,
Steven Sladewski

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