Bugzilla Bug 177726

I try to install Gentoo Linux 2007.0 x86 LiveCD and got the following x window
message:

x window system 7.1.1.
release date 12 may 2006
x protocolversion 11 revision 0 release 7.1.1.
build operating system: UNKNOWN
current operating system: linux livecd 2.6.19-Gentoo-r5 #1 smp wed apr..
build date .........
before reporting ..........
module loader present
markers: (--) ...........
(==) logfile "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time:Tue may 8, 13:02:31, 2007
(==) using configfile:"/etc/X11/xorg.conf
dlopen:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol
(EE) failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
(EE) failed to load module GLcore (loader failed,7)
(EE) failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) no driver available
Fatal server error
No screen found.

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My system:
Dell Dimension 4500 desktop, P4 CPU, 1.8GHZ
Video controller (AGP4X) ATI Rage 128
Monitor Dell E771A

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I hope you can help me out the trouble.

Many thanks,
Thies Thate ;]




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Booting PC with LiveCD 2007.0
2.Installer starts
3.After screen with "GPM started" the X window message follows.

Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
I expect the driver for the ATI Rage 128 will be available.

Is this when booting the CD?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this when booting the CD?
> 

Yep, seems to happen on most(all?) ati cards, i have a 1950pro

i tried changing the xorg.conf to vesa, but it errors out... and then tried
fbdev but that just garbles the display... but i am sure most people can use
vesa... :)

I'm pretty sure this is a dup, at least this is for the official release and
the other is for pre-release...

174306

*** Bug 174306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Please keep in mind that bug report 174306 was AMD64 related.

So this problem is on both x86 and AMD64(In reply to comment #4)
> *** Bug 174306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Confirmed on a system with ati 9800pro.  Detailed Xserver output is:
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
(II) UnloadModule: "ati"
(EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)

Somebody please attach a complete Xorg.0.log from the failure, just for
reference.

*** Bug 178636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Created an attachment (id=119366) [details]
Xorg.0.log from i686 livedvd while using an ati x300

It looks like what happened here is that sometime between 2006.1 and 2007.0 the
xorg-server ebuild changed to using video_cards_{mach64,r128,radeon} instead of
video_cards_ati, and the default VIDEO_CARDS in the profile was never updated
to match. Because of this, none of the ATI drivers got built on the x86/amd64
LiveCD/LiveDVD.

Created an attachment (id=119403) [details]
As requested by Andrew Gaffney, comment #7

Xorg.o.log for my ATI Rage 128,

*** Bug 179358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I hit the same on multiple x86 machines with ATI Radeon 9200 and 7500.

Created an attachment (id=120175) [details]
Xorg.0.log

(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol:
__glXActiveScreens

Yes, we already know what the problem is. We don't need any more "me too"
comments or dumps of the same error. We'll fix it soon.

Hi to all, and sorry for the semi-OT.
From changelog, i noticed that this has been fixed in xorg-server-1.3.0.
Using this in a custom livecd, should fix the problem?

Thanks

(In reply to comment #16)
> Hi to all, and sorry for the semi-OT.
> From changelog, i noticed that this has been fixed in xorg-server-1.3.0.
> Using this in a custom livecd, should fix the problem?

Uhh, the problem wasn't with xorg. The problem was with our profiles not
enabling any of the ATI drivers by default.

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > Hi to all, and sorry for the semi-OT.
> > From changelog, i noticed that this has been fixed in xorg-server-1.3.0.
> > Using this in a custom livecd, should fix the problem?
> 
> Uhh, the problem wasn't with xorg. The problem was with our profiles not
> enabling any of the ATI drivers by default.
> 

Hi ! I just downloaded the Live DVD 2007.0 yesterday (2007 July 5th).
Unfortunately I'm encountering the same error (on a Dell 6400 with ATI X1400).
Is there a way to solve this problem live or can I throw my DVD to trashcan ?

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've tried to replace the line
Driver "ati" 
by
Driver "mesa"
as suggested on the Gentoo forums, but the mesa module is not available too...
Any hint ?
Regards.

(In reply to comment #18)
> Hi ! I just downloaded the Live DVD 2007.0 yesterday (2007 July 5th).
> Unfortunately I'm encountering the same error (on a Dell 6400 with ATI X1400).
> Is there a way to solve this problem live or can I throw my DVD to trashcan ?
> 
> In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I've tried to replace the line
> Driver "ati" 
> by
> Driver "mesa"
> as suggested on the Gentoo forums, but the mesa module is not available too...
> Any hint ?

Bugzilla is not a support forum. However, it would help if you actually
replaced "ati" with a driver that exists ("mesa" is not a valid driver), like
"vesa".

(In reply to comment #15)
> Yes, we already know what the problem is. We don't need any more "me too"
> comments or dumps of the same error. We'll fix it soon.

I'm afraid "soon" is not a proper word :-( cause it's been approx. 2 months
since this post and there is still the same issue with the same 2007.0. Any
chances for the upcoming 2007.0-r1 bugfix release or there won't be any bugfix
for this problem till the 2007.1 (autumn 2007)?

Well, it depends on your idea of time.  Perhaps we're measuring based on the
scale of the Big Bang, in which case, 10 million years would still be "soon" in
comparison.

You say the issue still exists.  Of course it does.  The ISO hasn't changed.

Anyway, we haven't decided to make a 2007.0-r1 and likely will not do so at
this point.

Yes, i had the same problem. If you want to just run Live change all ati to
vesa in xorg.conf When i installed drivers it is working almost good.

My Xorg (from ubuntu, i did,t install the gentoo because of bug :) but i hope
is should resolve the problem):
====================================================

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
        Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[1]" LeftOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"

        # paths to defoma fonts
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "GLcore"
        Load  "i2c"
        Load  "bitmap"
        Load  "ddc"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "fglrxdrm"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Generic Monitor"
        HorizSync    28.0 - 80.0
        VertRefresh  43.0 - 60.0
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "FSAAEnable" "off"
        Option      "FSAAScale" "6"
        BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[1]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
        Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[1]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

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It looks strange (in my opinion), but everything works.

Hi there,
First time doing this, so you all have to excuse me.
I have the same problem with Gentoo Live CD 2007.0 both downloaded and one that
comes with Linux Format 96 (Sept. edition). Computer is Thinkpad T42 laptop
with Mobility ATI 7500.
Cheers.
K.

*** Bug 189821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Can someone verify that this issue is resolved with 2008.0 Beta 1?

X starts fine for me on the machine with ATI 7500M (comment #13 and #14) from
2008.0 beta 1.

 Just to say that I am getting the same error but with an Nvidia GTX 8800.

ie the 2007 LiveCD loads up to the point of starting X, then bombs out.

The 2008 works, but will not allow my USB mouse to work (reported in bug
#221125)