Radeon 6870 GPU not being shown

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run "pyrit list_cores" and "pyrit benchmark" in a terminal.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The Radeon 6870's GPU core is simply not shown in pyrit, despite flawless 
drivers/other programs installations.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
pyrit 0.3.0 ; Ubuntu 9.10

Please provide any additional information below.
Problems seem to be heightened in Ubuntu 10.10.
I also receive this message upon starting pyrit:
"This OpenCL build requires version 1.4.879, version 1.4.838 installed.
Aborting."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 7:02

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please update your gpu drivers

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 7:08

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AMD doesn't provide adequate Linux drivers on their site. I was forced to use 
the drivers on the CD that came with the graphics card. Anything else makes the 
system unstable.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 7:13

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Try downgrading the SDK then. The situation with AMD GPU-drivers for Linux is 
*very* bad and is not going to change any time soon.

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 7:17

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That didn't work, unfortunately.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 9:31

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there is little we can do then except waiting for new drivers

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2011 at 5:16

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Catalyst 11.1 seems to be working, can you try that?

https://groups.google.com/group/pyrit/browse_thread/thread/22164ab0fc47541b?hl=e
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Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2011 at 7:32

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@jared
please, if new Catalyst 11.1 are able to manage your 6870, please provide some 
real(*) test of PMK/s (i.e. report how many secont to test 50 million 
passwords) and report results: this will allow to solve the question of issue 
173 comment 63 and 68. Thanks you.

(*)the benchmark and benchmark_long does not provide trustable PMK/s.

Original comment by pyrit.lo...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2011 at 10:15

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Thank you for the update, I'm going to install *nix on my machine again and I 
will try the newer Catalyst and report my results as soon as I get them.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2011 at 3:45

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Apologies for the delayed response.
I am still having issues and they still seem to be driver-related. I have 
installed Catalyst 11.1 several times on clean installations of Ubuntu. If I 
start up CCC, it claims that it can't find a supported video card and the 
resolution behaves as such. I plan on trying Arch Linux or another distribution 
to see if it helps (or produces different issues).

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2011 at 4:50

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After debian 5.0, ubuntu and bactrack4 gave me headaches, I moved to debian 6.0 
and problems gone. Maybe you can try the same way

Original comment by pyrit.lo...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2011 at 10:17

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To confirm, are you saying that by moving over to Debian 6 with the Catalyst 
11.1 drivers, you were able to get Pyrit to detect the 6870, is that correct?

Did you use the SVN repo for your build or a pre-built version?
Are you on x86 or x86-64?
Are you using cpyrit-opencl or cpyrit-calpp?
Did you install python-pyopencl?
Are you running X while running pyrit?

Original comment by absolute...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 7:26

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it's probably the kernel version <-> ati drivers

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 7:46

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no, sorry I was not clear. I want only to report that ubuntu and backtrack was 
not good for me and debian 5 too old. Debian 6 works fine, but with catalyst 
10.6/7 and radeon HD5870 (I have not HD6xxx). 

I used svn, X86_64, calpp and twm.
btw, X MUST run otherwise ati driver does not run.

Original comment by pyrit.lo...@gmail.com on 4 Feb 2011 at 8:17

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any update here?

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 4:11

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I'm afraid not. Still waiting on more driver updates from AMD.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:00

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benchmark results for the 6970 were posted on the mailing list at 
https://groups.google.com/group/pyrit/browse_thread/thread/22164ab0fc47541b

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:03

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It may be worth noting that AMD has this page 
(http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst111bHotfix.aspx) on 
their website, and it seems rather relevant. However the link doesn't work and 
I can't seem to find the executable anywhere else on the net.

Am I mistaken in assuming that the 6900 series is newer than the 6800 series? 
If this is the case, I can't understand why it is that the 6800 cards don't 
seem to work well, if at all.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:11

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AMD drivers are *very* fragile when it comes to kernel- and X11-versions. They 
are also used to lag behind a few months.

The result posted on the mailing list was done with BT4 which happens to run 
from a LiveCD. You may want to download BT4 yourself, resemble the conditions 
as posted on the mailing list and try your GPU there...

Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:14

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My computer doesn't play nice with BackTrack for some reason, although I 
suspect that the CD/DVD drive could be the problem. I'll put it on a LiveUSB 
and post my results with BT4 R2 if I can get it running.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 5:17

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Couldn't run BT4 for whatever reason, I kept getting a kernel panic with no 
helpful info on the web. I'm instead trying to match the kernel version (which 
is 2.6.35-25 at this point in time) and hope that Catalyst works when it's 
finished.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2011 at 6:35

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The problem isn't with Backtrack, it seems. My hardware simply doesn't like the 
kernel. I've read that it can be fixed by using a 64-bit OS, so I'll try that 
when I have the time to build the kernel again.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 12:28

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I'm very happy to report that it's finally working. I checked AMD's site on a 
hunch, and they released Catalyst 11.2 since I last checked today. It fixed my 
ugly graphics problem, but more importantly, pyrit works. However it seems that 
I made a mistake while assigning variables for the Stream SDK as well (the 
included PDF wasn't entirely clear to me), so that could just as easily have 
been the problem.

Kernel: 2.6.35-25-generic (Ubuntu 10.4 x86)
ATI Stream SDK: 2.3
Catalyst 11.2

I'd be more than happy to provide any other potentially useful information.

Here's my benchmark for the 6870:
Computed 32625.92 PMKs/s total.
#1: 'OpenCL-Device 'Barts'': 31661.9 PMKs/s (RTT 2.8)
#2: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 673.8 PMKs/s (RTT 3.0)
#3: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 669.3 PMKs/s (RTT 3.0)
#4: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 671.9 PMKs/s (RTT 3.0)
#5: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 672.2 PMKs/s (RTT 3.0)
#6: 'CPU-Core (SSE2)': 696.1 PMKs/s (RTT 3.0)

I notice the PMKs/s don't quite add up, I believe this was mentioned elsewhere. 
Not that it concerns me much, with the performance I'm getting anyway.

Original comment by jared.pe...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 1:48

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Original comment by lukas.l...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 7:25

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