after upgrading to ati-drivers-8.21.7 yesterday, I didn't get a graphical login screen anymore. My screen went black. I was able to go to a virtual text console, by (ab)using my keyboard. I downgraded to ati-drivers-8.18.8-r2 and everything works again. Before I had ati-drivers-8.20.8 and they worked fine too. My graphics card is an "ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]" integrated on my MSI RS482M4 motherboard. Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5-vanilla, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran freewnn ftp gdbm gif ginac glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened icq idn ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jabber java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libcaca libwww lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mule ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg openal opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline sdl speex spell spl ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd videos vorbis wmf xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I had the same symptoms with 8.21.7 on gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1, but only after a logout or a switch to the console. The card is a Mobility Radeon 9600 on a Dell Inspiron 8600. Downgrading to 8.20.8 fixed the problem (so far). BTW, ati-drivers-extra-8.20-8 doesn't compile anymore, due to using ${A} for unpacking (it now contains two files instead of just the binary from ATI).
I get the same behaviour for ati-drivers-8.22.5, except that when I pressed a key when the screen was black, I got a kernel panic. I've downgraded to ati-drivers-8.20.8 to fix things. Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5-vanilla, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdr cjk crypt cups dga divx4linux dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode fbcon firefox foomaticdb fortran freewnn ftp gif ginac gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hardened icq ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jabber java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libcaca libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mule ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg opengl oscar pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline sdl speex spell spl ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd videos vorbis wmf xine xmms xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Ati-drivers-8.25.18 once again fails to give me a graphical login. All I get is a black screen. Machine appeared to be unresponsive. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_rc2-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16.14 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16.14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -ggdb1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -ggdb1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ " LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro.UTF-8" LINGUAS="nl en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdr cjk cli crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode fbcon firefox foomaticdb fortran freewnn ftp gif ginac gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardened icq ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libcaca libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mule ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session speex spell spl ssl svg tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd videos vorbis wmf xine xmms xorg xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_nl linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY xorg-log: to be attached
Created attachment 87576 [details] my Xorg.0.log
See also the bug report http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=183
*** Bug 132919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 127984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This involves an old version of ati-drivers and is most likely an upstream issue if it is still there at all. You will probably have better luck filing this in the unofficial bugzilla at http://ati.cchtml.com/, unless you have reason to believe this can be fixed in the ebuild. In that case please reopen.
