Catalyst 9.8 + Kernel 2.6.29 = Freeze

[nanonyme]

Maybe Catalyst devs should just target Fedora releases of the desktop "GNU/Linuxes", since when it works under Fedora it should work everywhere ;D

Funny notion but a false one. Fedora sometimes diverts from upstream when testing is being done with X. (since stuff gets to Fedora before it gets upstream, sometimes)

[TorkildJ]

Have you blacklisted radeon module from /etc/modprobe.d/blaclist.conf? Black screen here also if I haven't.

Add "blacklist radeon" there like the others that are already there.

That helped a little bit.. Now it goes all the way to the login screen before it freezes (and screen is not black).. error message is however the same.. Maybe some other things in my xorg.conf is wrong?

[TrentZ]

That helped a little bit.. Now it goes all the way to the login screen before it freezes (and screen is not black).. error message is however the same.. Maybe some other things in my xorg.conf is wrong?

Yes, you put "SWCurosr" in the wrong Device section. It should be in 'aticonfig-Device[0]-0'.

[blindfrog]

Funny notion but a false one. Fedora sometimes diverts from upstream when testing is being done with X. (since stuff gets to Fedora before it gets upstream, sometimes)

Yes! And that's even better! I already see it "Catalyst: Even upstream can't keep up". ;D

[TorkildJ]

Yes, you put "SWCurosr" in the wrong Device section. It should be in 'aticonfig-Device[0]-0'.

IT WORKS!
Thank you very much for your help.
But i am really a bit surprised that such a strange workaround is needed to avoid total catastrophe with the ati driver

So to sum up, what seems to do the trick for Fedora 11:

1. Go to init 3 (non graphical mode)
2. as root write "rmmod radeon; rmmod drm;"
3. now run ati-driver setup and verify that it has installed without errors
4. use xorg.conf with correct settings (provided below. "lib64" should be replaced with "lib" for 32bit systems
5. in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add lines "blacklist radeon" and "blacklist drm"
6. run "depmod -a"
7. reboot system and pray that it works!

Here is the final xorg.conf that worked

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection



Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "dbe"
EndSection

 Section "Extensions"
    Option  "Composite" "Disable"  #make DRI work with fglrx.
 EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	#DisplaySize	  510   290	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "ACR"
	ModelName    "Acer V233H"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 94.0
	VertRefresh  49.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection


Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option	    "SWCursor"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[DteK]

IT WORKS!
Thank you very much for your help.
But i am really a bit surprised that such a strange workaround is needed to avoid total catastrophe with the ati driver

So to sum up, what seems to do the trick for Fedora 11:

1. Go to init 3 (non graphical mode)
2. as root write "rmmod radeon; rmmod drm;"
3. now run ati-driver setup and verify that it has installed without errors
4. use xorg.conf with correct settings (provided below. "lib64" should be replaced with "lib" for 32bit systems
5. in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add lines "blacklist radeon" and "blacklist drm"
6. run "depmod -a"
7. reboot system and pray that it works!

Here is the final xorg.conf that worked

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection



Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dri2"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "dbe"
EndSection

 Section "Extensions"
    Option  "Composite" "Disable"  #make DRI work with fglrx.
 EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	#DisplaySize	  510   290	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "ACR"
	ModelName    "Acer V233H"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 94.0
	VertRefresh  49.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection


Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option	    "SWCursor"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

I did not have to blacklist drm, I did have to remake initrd after black listing radeon though. works lovely.

[blindfrog]

Wohoo you can get rid of the "swcursor trick" now! There's a better fix for those lock ups.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...55503&page=241

1) mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
2) aticonfig --initial -f
3) aticonfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE"

Works great and kwin desktop effects are usable again

[Untit1ed]

Thanks, this topic is really helpful. I had the same problem on OpenSUSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25.20. I had to use radeonhd driver instead, because fglrx driver crashed my system on X startup.

[Saphy]

Thanks, this topic is really helpful. I had the same problem on OpenSUSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25.20. I had to use radeonhd driver instead, because fglrx driver crashed my system on X startup.

fglrx also crash on me, even after I added the SWCursor True option. I also tried setting CONFIG_X86_PAT to N in kernel config. But I still get a black screen and a frozen system (probably a kernel panic) after a while, or immediately if I play any video or run any 3D program.

The only way to make it not crashing is to disable DRI, but that would have disabled all acceleration. I don't mind the lack of 3D accleration, but does anyone know if there is a way to disable only 3D acceleration so that I can play video?


Thanks