Hi! I'm writing this to you after opening a ticket to the ATI customer service because i swear that they won't give me enough help. Straight to the problem: i'm using Debian Etch amd64 port (custom linux kernel 2.6.17.6) and i'm having troubles when shutting down X (like rebooting or halting the system) with the fglrx drivers; when X goes down a blank screen appears and the system doesn't respond anymore. This is the error i'm having in the Xorg logs: (EE) fglrx(0): === [R200DALSetControllerConfigForRemap] === CWDDC ControllerSetConfig failed: 6 - 0 When Xorg starts i only have this warnings: (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported (WW) fglrx(0): Specified desktop setup not supported: 8 I have a Sapphire ATI Radeon X700 PRO PCI-E 256MB and i've tried the fglrx debian sid packages (driver version 8.24.8) and also the ATI package (version 8.26.18). Do you happen to know if someone has ever had this problem? Someone knows what can i do? Googleing, asking to the debian community and to ATI wasn't so helpful. Thanks in advance for a reply.
First of all, this is an fglrx driver bug. Since that driver is closed source and not supported by Xorg, you should not report it here. Sorry that ATI support sucks so much. :-/ There is an unofficial bugzilla for fglrx at http://ati.cchtml.com/. I believe bug #239 there is the same problem you're experiencing. See also http://wiki.cchtml.com for more community information related to fglrx. Anyway, there is a possible workaround. If you're using GDM you can set AlwaysRestartServer=true in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Other display managers may have similar options. Hope this helps. I'm closing this bug as NOTOURBUG.
FYI there's also unofficial bugs here, just change product to xorg and component to driver/ati proprietary.
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