I'm not sure if this is a packaging issue, or an issue with the driver itself. I am using the recently released AMD catalyst 13.8-beta driver for Fedora 19 (kernel 3.10.4-300). The two issues are: 1) Something is pointing to the module in the wrong place (/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so) instead of /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so. 2) The permissions on /proc/ati/major seem to be incorrect. See the output from glxinfo below: $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | head -5 libGL: AtiGetClientDriverName: 13.20.4 fglrx (screen 0) libGL error: OpenDriver: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] ukiDynamicMajor: failed to open /proc/ati/major Setting of real/effective user Id to 0/0 failed ukiDynamicMajor: failed to open /proc/ati/major ukiDynamicMajor: failed to open /proc/ati/major ukiDynamicMajor: failed to open /proc/ati/major libGL error: open uki failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) server glx vendor string: ATI server glx version string: 1.4 Regards, Raman

Hi Raman, On Monday, 05 August 2013 at 18:03, Raman Gupta wrote: [...] > Argh... this driver crashes or freezes X regularly, and the open > source radeon driver is completely useless -- just a big black screen > with only a cursor where X should come up. I should have stayed on F17. :( What is your GPU? Have you reported your problems with the open source radeon driver on Fedora Bugzilla or upstream? In my experience, radeon driver is more stable and better in almost any respect than fglrx.