Upgrade to xorg-server 1.12.2 broken

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Voransky · Post by **Voransky** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:30 pm

I'm glad too, anyway I'm afraid that this will not help here...I've found some posts about the similar issue in previous version of Xorg to...check this page if it could be any help: [/url]http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521

lte · Post by **lte** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:53 am

FWIW, I'm experiencing the same problem after upgrading xorg-server to 1.12.2.

The backtrace in the Xorg.0.log is next to identical to the one of the original poster.
I tried all the suggestions that has been posted so far, to no avail, still segfaults.

My chipset is an onboard AMD880G (aka Radeon 4250) using open source drivers
on a 64bit system. Would be happy to post more details if it's useful to someone.

Goverp · Post by **Goverp** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:07 am

[edit]
Whoops, sorry, everyone here IS using the open source drivers. I got confused between ati-drivers and xf8-6video-ati, cos my VIDEO_CARDS said neither ("fglrx" or "radeon", of course).
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People seem to have missed the elog message from ati-drivers-12.6-beta.

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Please note that this driver supports only graphic cards based on
Evergreen chipset and newer.
This represent the AMD Radeon HD 5400+ series at this moment.

If your card is older then use x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
For migration informations please reffer to:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/ati-migration-guide.xml

I missed it too (my box has HD3200 embedded graphics).

Cures are either to stay at 12.4 (which required you to back-level xorg-server et al), or to move to the radeon driver. The radeon driver works for me, though it seems to slow flightgear somewhat.

lte · Post by **lte** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:11 pm

Tried the x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-9999 layover, same result.

Downgrading to xorg-server-1.11 seems more and more like the only option.

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:23 pm

I'm experiencing the same problem trying to re-emerge Xorg driver:
emerge -1av $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)

qlist gives me "Segmentation fault"

I'm using in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS="vga vesa fbdev"

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:04 pm

Joseph_sys wrote:I'm experiencing the same problem trying to re-emerge Xorg driver: [..] qlist gives me "Segmentation fault"

Joseph ... I think thats a seperate issue, if qlist segfaults it due to some runtime dependency or what-have-you being broken/missing. Check the linking ...

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% ldd /usr/bin/qlist
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb77c5000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7651000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77c6000)

linux-gate.so is a a virtual DSO (provided by the kernel) and the other two belong to glibc.

HTH & best ...

khay

Ska` · Post by **Ska`** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:48 pm

Same error here, I tried all the solutions posted here but to successfully start X I had to downgrade both xorg-server and xf86-video-ati masking

>x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.4-r1
>x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.3

sl70 · Post by **sl70** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:32 pm

Perhaps we should report this as a bug. What do you all think?

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:08 pm

sl70 wrote:Perhaps we should report this as a bug. What do you all think?

I think it has something to do with new: portage-utils-0.10
I masked it and went back portage-utils-0.8 and it worked for me.

see my post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928548.html

Ska` · Post by **Ska`** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:51 pm

Joseph_sys wrote:I think it has something to do with new: portage-utils-0.10
I masked it and went back portage-utils-0.8 and it worked for me.

see my post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-928548.html

Our error is different, we get a segfault executing startx