Hi,

I can't get to install the proprietary driver "fglrx" with ATI Radeon HD 5970 on Debian Squeeze.
After the installation with ATI Catalyst 12-8 and a reboot, from the stage of GDM, the screen is freezing with a lot of little squares appearing on X, mouse is locking and total freezing of the system. I have tried with old Catalyst versions and same problems.


I would like to install the proprietary fglrx driver because I need to use bi-GPU of this card with OpenCL. With the free radeon driver, I have no problem for X but I don't have GPU support.

I also try with "module-assistant" but the issue is the same.


Here's my config :

PC : Aspire G5900-090 - Core i7-870 - 8Go - HD5970 (2048Mo)

*** $ lspci | grep ATI
*** 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series]

*** 03:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
*** 04:00.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Hemlock [ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series]

*** $ uname -a
*** Linux sev 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 3 21:40:57 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux



With free radeon driver, "CLInfo" tool of ATI stream SDK makes only appear CPUs :

*** /opt/ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-lnx64/samples/opencl/bin/x86_64 $ ./CLInfo
***
*** Number of platforms:************ 1

***** Platform Profile:************ FULL_PROFILE
***** Platform Version:************ OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)
***** Platform Name:*************** ATI Stream
***** Platform Vendor:************ Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

***** Platform Extensions:********* cl_khr_icd
***
***
***** Platform Name:*************** ATI Stream
*** Number of devices:************ 1
***** Device Type:*************** CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU
***** Device ID:*************** 4098

***** Max compute units:************ 8
***** Max work items dimensions:********* 3
******* Max work items[0]:************ 1024
******* Max work items[1]:************ 1024
******* Max work items[2]:************ 1024

***** Max work group size:************ 1024
***** Preferred vector width char:********* 16
***** Preferred vector width short:********* 8
***** Preferred vector width int:********* 4
***** Preferred vector width long:********* 2

***** Preferred vector width float:********* 4
***** Preferred vector width double:****** 0
***** Max clock frequency:************ 1200Mhz
***** Address bits:*************** 64
***** Max memory allocation:********* 1073741824

***** Image support:************ No
***** Max size of kernel argument:********* 4096
***** Alignment (bits) of base address:****** 1024
***** Minimum alignment (bytes) for any datatype:*** 128
***** Single precision floating point capability

******* Denorms:*************** Yes
******* Quiet NaNs:*************** Yes
******* Round to nearest even:********* Yes
******* Round to zero:************ No
******* Round to +ve and infinity:********* No
******* IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add:****** No

***** Cache type:*************** Read/Write
***** Cache line size:************ 0
***** Cache size:*************** 0
***** Global memory size:************ 3221225472
***** Constant buffer size:************ 65536

***** Max number of constant args:********* 8
***** Local memory type:************ Global
***** Local memory size:************ 32768
***** Profiling timer resolution:********* 1
***** Device endianess:************ Little

***** Available:*************** Yes
***** Compiler available:************ Yes
***** Execution capabilities:***********
******* Execute OpenCL kernels:********* Yes
******* Execute native function:********* No

***** Queue properties:***********
******* Out-of-Order:************ No
******* Profiling :*************** Yes
***** Platform ID:*************** 0x7f6f1e600228
***** Name:****************** Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU******** 870* @ 2.93GHz

***** Vendor:*************** GenuineIntel
***** Driver version:************ 1.1
***** Profile:*************** FULL_PROFILE
***** Version:*************** OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)
***** Extensions:*************** cl_khr_icd cl_amd_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_ext_device_fission cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_printf

***
***
*** Passed!


Has anyone already got this problem of freezing with the fglrx proprietary driver on Radeon HD 5970 ? Could it be an issue with my screen or with frequencies ?

Any help would really be appreciated