Unable to start X with fglrx 9.1 release

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Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:01 am

I'm not sure what changed with the newer releases, but ever since 8.12 I can't start X with fglrx. Over the last month I've tried the leaked 9.1, 9.2 and now the final 9.1 drivers straight from portage, and none of them seem to work properly, but I have no problems with the December drivers or earlier. I'm on a 4870 x2 with kernel 2.6.28 (heard they have problems with the .29's.

Basically, the display changes modes properly and my monitor shows 1920x1200, but then it just stays black. My HDD light flashes and the kernel still is active, I can reboot the system safely with the power key, but the keyboard and mouse are completely locked up and it never moves further. No errors in Xorg.0.log.

Here's a link to my xorg log, and here's my xorg.conf, I've tried it with the latest gentoo-sources also so it's not the kernel patches. Few other people in the bump bug on bugs.gentoo seem to have a similar issue, but they're closing that bug because it's off topic so I'm moving here.

celas · Post by **celas** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:04 am

I've seen a similar thing occur with my 4870.

I got mine working by removing the BUSID line in the device section. It might help.

Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:32 am

Well, it didn't hurt. Same issue. Glad that that line isn't required anymore though, it was always a bit of a pain.

Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:11 am

Any other ideas? I'm thinking this problem isn't likely to go away... it happened in the 9.2 leaked beta too.

neyz · Post by **neyz** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:43 am

Hi Vash63,

i'm affraid i won't be able to help for now but how did you get your hands on that latest 9.1 release thrue portage ? The latest i see is 8.573-r1 :

http://packages.gentoo.org/category/x11-drivers

Thanks ^^

Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:23 am

8.573 is the internal number from ATi, they're one in the same. Portage still uses the old numbering scheme which is impossible to remember, ATi now uses a much easier year.month scheme that the package maintainers have not yet adopted.

Anyway, yeah, they're straight through portage. Just different names.

Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:35 am

So I guess I just can't use Gentoo if I want to use the latest drivers?

cpwp · Post by **cpwp** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:04 pm

Same problem here.

I have put what debugging information (dmesg, logs, strace, etc) I can on the bug page at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258928

cpwp

Vash63 · Post by **Vash63** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:59 am

Heh, that's actually my bug page. Anyway, I've 'solved' it for now... gave up and am on RadeonHD. No 3d support sucks but at least I can start up X with this one, and resize windows at a decent rate (Though the window resize thing is definitely ATi's fault). Hopefully a fix for this is found, otherwise I might have to switch distros as the driver definitely works for some people... just can't get it working on Gentoo.