Bug 1287

Summary:

Repeatable segv starting X w/ ATI closed-source driver

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

David Hagood <wowbagger>

Component:

Driver/fglrx

Assignee:

atilinuxbugsunassigned

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

major

Priority:

high

CC:

ajax

Version:

git

Hardware:

x86 (IA32)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Log file showing segv	none
x.org config file used for that run	none

Description David Hagood 2004-09-03 15:50:44 UTC

I have never been able to get the closed source (boo!) ATI drivers to play
nicely with the Xorg server - they always segv at startup.

This is with a 2.8.1 kernel with 8K stacks enabled.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Install the ATI driver RPM for 4.3.0
2) Build the ATI kernel module.
3) Select ATI driver.
4) run startx.

Expected results:
X should start.

Actual results:
X segv's at start in mPicture_Init.

Comment 1 David Hagood 2004-09-03 15:58:02 UTC

Created attachment 819 [details]
Log file showing segv

This is a log of attempting to start with the proprietary drivers.

Comment 2 David Hagood 2004-09-03 15:58:50 UTC

Created attachment 820 [details]
x.org config file used for that run

This is the config file for that run.

Comment 3 David Hagood 2004-09-03 16:00:50 UTC

Additional info - this build of X was from a CVS pull of a couple of hours ago
(ca. 15:00 CDT Sept 3 2004.)

Also, after this run, attempting to fall back to the Free driver locks the
machine up at startup.

Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2004-09-03 19:37:38 UTC

could you look at the workaround in #1282 and see if that's the same issue?  if
so, could you also figure out which of the options is at fault?  hopefully it's
just one option causing the problem.

Comment 5 David Hagood 2004-09-08 04:25:24 UTC

I'm not sure what "workaround" you are referring to - all I saw in bug #1282 was
the statement that "it was the GLX module".

Are you suggesting disabling the loading of the GLX module, and/or the other
modules beyond the driver?

Comment 6 James McCarthy 2004-09-20 00:17:38 UTC

I think he's referring to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=1282#c6">this comment</a>.

Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2005-03-26 12:58:52 UTC

reporter: ping.

Comment 8 David Hagood 2005-03-26 15:20:53 UTC

The lastest X, and the latest fglrx driver from ATI do not show this behavior.

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