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Bug 125692 - ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 - can only start X server once
Summary: ati-drivers-8.21.7-r1 - can only start X server once
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: X11 External Driver Maintainers
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Reported: 2006-03-10 03:22 UTC by Timo Nentwig
Modified: 2007-04-01 23:42 UTC (History)
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Description Timo Nentwig 2006-03-10 03:22:57 UTC 
8.21.7 has finally been marked stable but it still doesn't work on my radeon X600. I'm ably to start up the X server only once, then:

Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm: :0[23785]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: Display :0 cannot be opened
Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling.
Comment 1 Timo Nentwig 2006-03-10 10:33:57 UTC 
FYI this applies to a Samsung X20 (II, I think) notebook. In case somebody owns one, too...
Comment 2 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-03-16 02:31:40 UTC 
I'm able to open a second display, but that one looks corrupted. I see this since I've upgraded to the 8.21.7 drivers. The initial screen (screen 0) where I usually work on looks fine.
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2006-03-20 17:08:43 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm able to open a second display, but that one looks corrupted. I see this
> since I've upgraded to the 8.21.7 drivers. The initial screen (screen 0) where
> I usually work on looks fine.
> 

Known issue with upstream, refer to upstream changelog.(In reply to comment #0)
> 8.21.7 has finally been marked stable but it still doesn't work on my radeon
> X600. I'm ably to start up the X server only once, then:
> 
> Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm: :0[23785]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay

We have no way to ensure ati-drivers will work on all possible cards. sorry for the inconvience. The reasoning behind 8.21.7 going stable was due to fact 2.6.15 is the latest stable kernel. 
> Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: Display :0 cannot be opened
> Mar 10 13:04:05 notebook kdm[18528]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> disabling.
>