Having issues installing ati-drivers. (Resolved)

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praecorloth · Post by **praecorloth** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:06 am

Unfortunately that's about all I can tell you. Normally when emerge fails, it throws a nice error message I can post here. That is not the case this time. The best I can give you is:

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/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4006: error: old-style parameter declarations in prototyped function definition
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:185: error: parameter name omitted
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:185: error: parameter name omitted
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:185: error: parameter name omitted
/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4006: error: expected '{' at end of input
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.32.5/work/common/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r7'
make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2

I've reinstalled Gentoo on this system about 4 times in the last week. Not a fun task. I'm more than ready for it to FINALLY be installed and done with. However my Radeon X1950's performance on the desktop is about half that of the 6 year old card in my lesser computer. That simply won't do. I'm hoping that drivers specific to my video card will help.

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:23 am

Remove "Paravirutalization support" (since 2.6.20) under "Processor types and features" in the kernel.

Why reinstalling so much?

anthrax_ · Post by **anthrax_** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:36 am

Unmask ati-drivers-8.35.5 and try install it

praecorloth · Post by **praecorloth** » Tue May 01, 2007 8:51 am

Cool, thanks. I went with the unmasking the 8.35.5 drivers as I couldn't find "Paravirutalization support" in the kernel config. Hopefully it works.

I end up reinstalling because I'll get to installing X and KDE and it will seem that I emerged one or the other without certain USE flags which end up causing trouble down the line when trying to install other programs. One notable experience was I wasn't able to install Firefox because a certain library file that X used wasn't configured with a certain USE flag, so I had to unemerge that, put the use flag in, then reemerge it. Happened with several programs so I was like, "Okay, now I know I need these flags, I'll just start fresh and pretend none of this ever happened." So far as I can tell, I've got all the right use flags, so I'm trying to get X to really take advantage of my video card.

Edit:
There's a problem with the 8.35.5 drivers. The config file crashes out with an exception error. So I've removed those drivers and I'm back to looking for Para Support in my kernel.

praecorloth · Post by **praecorloth** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:29 pm

Okay, went back to trying the 8.35.5 drivers. I did the aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf and...

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Uninitialised file found, configuring.
*** glibc detected *** /opt/bin/aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007ffff9ec3b10 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2afcb13eb40d]
/opt/bin/aticonfig[0x41408d]
/opt/bin/aticonfig[0x413f29]
/opt/bin/aticonfig[0x40b1e0]
/opt/bin/aticonfig(__strtod_internal+0x1512)[0x403502]
/opt/bin/aticonfig(XOpenDisplay+0x244)[0x4023c4]
/opt/bin/aticonfig(XOpenDisplay+0x149)[0x4022c9]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2afcb139f134]
/opt/bin/aticonfig(XOpenDisplay+0x6a)[0x4021ea]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0041f000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 448086                             /opt/bin/aticonfig
0051f000-00525000 rw-p 0001f000 08:03 448086                             /opt/bin/aticonfig
00525000-00546000 rw-p 00525000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
2afcb0be6000-2afcb0c01000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 131                        /lib64/ld-2.4.so
2afcb0c01000-2afcb0c02000 rw-p 2afcb0c01000 00:00 0
2afcb0c1a000-2afcb0c1b000 rw-p 2afcb0c1a000 00:00 0
2afcb0d00000-2afcb0d01000 r--p 0001a000 08:03 131                        /lib64/ld-2.4.so
2afcb0d01000-2afcb0d02000 rw-p 0001b000 08:03 131                        /lib64/ld-2.4.so
2afcb0d02000-2afcb0d08000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 244333                     /usr/lib64/libXrandr.so.2.1.0
2afcb0d08000-2afcb0e08000 ---p 00006000 08:03 244333                     /usr/lib64/libXrandr.so.2.1.0
2afcb0e08000-2afcb0e09000 rw-p 00006000 08:03 244333                     /usr/lib64/libXrandr.so.2.1.0
2afcb0e09000-2afcb0e12000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 241075                     /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2afcb0e12000-2afcb0f11000 ---p 00009000 08:03 241075                     /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2afcb0f11000-2afcb0f12000 rw-p 00008000 08:03 241075                     /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1.3.0
2afcb0f12000-2afcb0f22000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 241451                     /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2afcb0f22000-2afcb1022000 ---p 00010000 08:03 241451                     /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2afcb1022000-2afcb1023000 rw-p 00010000 08:03 241451                     /usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0
2afcb1023000-2afcb1024000 rw-p 2afcb1023000 00:00 0
2afcb1024000-2afcb1126000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 245296                     /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2afcb1126000-2afcb1226000 ---p 00102000 08:03 245296                     /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2afcb1226000-2afcb122d000 rw-p 00102000 08:03 245296                     /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0
2afcb122d000-2afcb1280000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 37                         /lib64/libm-2.4.so
2afcb1280000-2afcb1380000 ---p 00053000 08:03 37                         /lib64/libm-2.4.so
2afcb1380000-2afcb1382000 rw-p 00053000 08:03 37                         /lib64/libm-2.4.so
2afcb1382000-2afcb14a3000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 141                        /lib64/libc-2.4.so
2afcb14a3000-2afcb15a3000 ---p 00121000 08:03 141                        /lib64/libc-2.4.so
2afcb15a3000-2afcb15a6000 r--p 00121000 08:03 141                        /lib64/libc-2.4.so
2afcb15a6000-2afcb15a8000 rw-p 00124000 08:03 141                        /lib64/libc-2.4.so
2afcb15a8000-2afcb15ae000 rw-p 2afcb15a8000 00:00 0
2afcb15ae000-2afcb15b0000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 239520                     /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2afcb15b0000-2afcb16b0000 ---p 00002000 08:03 239520                     /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2afcb16b0000-2afcb16b1000 rw-p 00002000 08:03 239520                     /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6.0.0
2afcb16b1000-2afcb16b6000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 240861                     /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2afcb16b6000-2afcb17b5000 ---p 00005000 08:03 240861                     /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2afcb17b5000-2afcb17b6000 rw-p 00004000 08:03 240861                     /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
2afcb17b6000-2afcb17b8000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 120                        /lib64/libdl-2.4.so
2afcb17b8000-2afcb18b8000 ---p 00002000 08:03 120                        /lib64/libdl-2.4.so
2afcb18b8000-2afcb18ba000 rw-p 00002000 08:03 120                        /lib64/libdl-2.4.so
2afcb18ba000-2afcb18bc000 rw-p 2afcb18ba000 00:00 0
2afcb18bc000-2afcb18c8000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 26                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
2afcb18c8000-2afcb19c8000 ---p 0000c000 08:03 26                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
2afcb19c8000-2afcb19c9000 rw-p 0000c000 08:03 26                         /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
7ffff9eaf000-7ffff9ec4000 rw-p 7ffff9eaf000 00:00 0                      [stack]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vdso]
Aborted

Thoughts and opinions? 8.35.5 just not stable yet? I'm unable to find the paravirtualization section to remove in the kernel, which is why I went back to trying to get these drivers to work.

praecorloth · Post by **praecorloth** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:33 am

Alright Gentoo fans, I think I've got it. My video performance is much better. Here's what I did wrong.

In following the Gentoo ATI HowTo, I used the line

/opt/bin/aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Which gave me the big long error in my previous post when executed while X and KDE were running. When executed with X and KDE not running, as specified in the HowTo, it simply gave me a Segmentation Fault error and dumped me back to the command prompt.

It was as simple as removing the --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf from my aticonfig line. It used /etc/X11/xorg.conf as the default location for the xorg.conf and proceeded to modify it successfully.

Thanks everyone for your time!

torf · Post by **torf** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:48 pm

praecorloth wrote:It was as simple as removing the --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf from my aticonfig line.

Thanks, worked for me, too.

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