Radeon 9250 DRI won't work, graphic apps segfault [SOLVED]

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I'm trying to get DRI working with my Radeon 9250 AGP card. I've tried the guides on the wiki and on this site, all to no avail. I've also noticed that programs like ati-config, glxinfo, and fglrxgears all segfault for some reason, and I'm not sure if it's related or not.

Here's my configs. I'm not sure what you'll need (I'll admit to being a n00b), so if you need anything else, let me know:

xorg.conf: http://www.shortText.com/nizj54q
lspci: http://www.shortText.com/42pyggz
glxinfo: http://www.shortText.com/ut6y1ub
kernel config part 1: http://www.shortText.com/dh738s
kernel config part 2: http://www.shortText.com/l9kbev
emerge --info: http://www.shortText.com/2lm0dq
aticonfig: http://www.shortText.com/7mu5r4u

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

The one thing you didn't post was your Xorg.0.log.

Anyways, for a radeon 9250 you need ati-drivers 8.28.8 or earlier, support for everything before the r300 was removed from all later versions.

Problem with this is that 8.28.8 isn't maintained, therefore (AFAIK) can't be built with most recent kernels.

You should really be using the open source driver for this card anyway, ie xf86-video-ati.

I have the same agp card, and while 3d is too slow to really play games or anything, with the open driver dri works just fine and 2d acceleration with composite works great too.
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Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

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hackerError · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject:

I'm having similar issues, perhaps related, perhaps not, if we're all looking at this right now we could perhaps hop into irc and work together then leave the solution here on the forum, seems a faster way to communicate. Thoughts?
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hackerError · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

I'm going to go ahead and hop into server irc.havoc.org channel #ati
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Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

Okay, you actually seem to already have everything required, so I'll need to see your xorg log to see why it doesn't just work.

Could you pastebin /var/log/Xorg.0.log as you did with everything in your first post, and could you also post the output of `eselect opengl list`?
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JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Aght, lemme merge my chat client and I'll be right there.

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

hackerError · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

also hopeless if you aren't down to do the irc thing no problem I'll create a new thread if this discussion between you two doesn't help

hackerError · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject:

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I gave that a try, and now it's throwing me this error:

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject:

/usr/lib/libGL.so should be a symlink, if it is just delete it and try again, if not run `equery d /usr/lib/libGL.so` and post the output.

`file /usr/lib/libGL.so` should tell you what it is.

Also run file on "/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so", just in case.
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JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

It's still in /usr/lib, so here's the output for file:

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject:

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I'm remerging mesa, it might take a bit. I'll get back to you in a few when it's done.

EDIT: Okay, I remerged mesa, but it's still having the libGL issue. It still can't create the file.

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

There should be a "/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so" belonging to mesa, you could try manually symlinking "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" to it.

Edit: JRLCrist, I only just missed you on irc.

Patience is a virtue, you know.

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JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Haha, nice

Actually I had to run for a little bit, that's why I left

Anyway, what I did was I emerge --unmerge mesa xf86-video-ati xorg-server xorg-x11 && emerge -va --depclean; emerge -va xorg-x11. When I get home, it should be done, and hopefully that'll work, too. I don't see why it wouldn't

Just more of a pain in the arse to do

Sadako · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I will say, I'm learning a lot from this

But let me ask you this in the mean time. How do you think this issue occured? Was it when I installed ati-drivers? Did that overwrite something somewhere like libglx.so? If I know how it happened, I can hopefully prevent other similar things like it from happening in the future.

JRL.Crist · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Okay, so here's the status update. I unmerged and remerged everything, blew up .../extensions/libglx.so and all the other libgl.so* files in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib, remerged mesa again, and now I'm sort of in business. I can select xorg-x11 with eselect, but here's the remaining issue: