Catalyst 8.7 crashes Xorg at startup on M76

[Vighy]

As I pointed out in http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=39725&postcount=12

With this release Xorg hangs at startup. It seems to be distribution INdependent, and architecture INdependent since I tried both on:

- x86_64 gentoo with kernel tuxonice-sources-2.6.25-r6
and on
- i686 Kubuntu Hardy directly from the liveCD (the new "supported" one :D :D)

The chipset is M76 - Mobility Radeon HD2600 - 512MB of ram.

for the lazy ones that don't want to click on the link, here the dump of Xorg :D :D :D


[...snip...]
(**) fglrx(0): ATI GART size: 255 MB
(II) fglrx(0): [pcie] 261120 kB allocated
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 65536
(**) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=1
(==) fglrx(0): BlockSignalsOnLock=1
(II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin
(EE) fglrx(1): Quitting secondary screen -- no monitor specified.
(EE) fglrx(1): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(1): === [atiddxPreInit] === end

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x49263a]
1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f9767b64da0]
2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxDriverEntPriv+0xf) [0x7f976592dcef]
3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxFreeScreen+0x2e) [0x7f9765932b8e]
4: /usr/bin/X(xf86DeleteScreen+0x7e) [0x4a5ade]
5: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0xa1f) [0x46c0bf]
6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2c6) [0x437256]
7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f9767b501d6]
8: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x289) [0x4366f9]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


This is not a minor bug.... since it prevents Xorg from starting at all!!!

[Vighy]

So nobody from AMD is interested in this case? I just wonder why it happens, since with other versions of the driver never happened something dramatic like this!

If you ask me I will try with other versions of Xorg or what ever you want. ;-)
(Xorg was 1.4.2 on gentoo and the stock one on ubuntu.)

[Vighy]

So nobody at AMD can tell me if this driver was tested with the Mobility Radeon HD2600 in house?

since it crashes Xorg with a supported distro (ubuntu 8.04) on this chipset... so it's quite simple to reproduce the problem for you, ain't it?

[bridgman]

Don't know about this specific release - we rotate across a fairly big list of hardware platforms. There is a core set of hardware but the driver runs on literally thousands of different platforms and don't test on all of them. A lot of these problems are platform specific -- which laptop are you actually using ?

Maybe a dumb question, but weren't your earlier posts about HD3xxx, or was it someone else who posted that the driver worked better on HD3xxx before we added Hd3xxx support ?

[Vighy]

Don't know about this specific release - we rotate across a fairly big list of hardware platforms. There is a core set of hardware but the driver runs on literally thousands of different platforms and don't test on all of them. A lot of these problems are platform specific -- which laptop are you actually using ?

Maybe a dumb question, but weren't your earlier posts about HD3xxx, or was it someone else who posted that the driver worked better on HD3xxx before we added Hd3xxx support ?

well it was me, if it was about Mobility HD2xxx :-) I said it in 3 or 4 posts, because I felt ignored :-) since nobody answered... now I'm much more relaxed :D

this is the pastebin of my atigetsysteminfo.sh:

http://pastebin.com/fa57653

shortly the laptop is an Asus Pro31Sa (Motherboard from F3Sa) you could get it from here, I think:

#
==========/proc/dri/0/biosversion (22:47)==========
#

#
BIOS_CREATION_DATE="01/28/08,15:12:26"
#
BIOS_MSG="ASUS_F3Sa A12 M76 BIOS GDDR2 400m/500e ASID:A15201.011$ "
#
BIOS_KIT_VERSION="BK-ATI VER010.054.000.000"

Thanks Bridgman :) I hope my information will help.