I am experiencing (almost?) the exact same problem as this Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464667 ati-drivers-8.433 worked fine on my system, but everything after that has failed. The latest version, ati-drivers-8.455.2-r1, compiles, installs, and loads the kernel module fine. However, when loading Xorg, CMMQS driver init fails, and produces these errors in Xorg.log: (II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x5000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x5000 to 0xb7c2e000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x6000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information: (II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx (II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.45.5 (II) fglrx(0): Date: Feb 1 2008 (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver. (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information: (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: yes (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel __SMP__: yes (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x00007000 (II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 18. (II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize CMMQS driver. (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x5000 at 0xb7c2e000 (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * ... Notice that drm seems to load, but quickly fails with this error: (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to initialize CMMQS driver. (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x5000 at 0xb7c2e000 I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.23-gentoo-r8, it failed with r3 as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Here's the same Xorg.log with ati-drivers-8.433 installed: (II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0" (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x2000 to 0xb7bb5000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x3000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information: (II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx (II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.43.2 (II) fglrx(0): Date: Nov 9 2007 (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver. (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information: (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: yes (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel __SMP__: yes (II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000 (II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x00004000 (II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 18. (II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface (II) fglrx(0): [pci] find AGP GART (II) fglrx(0): [agp] Mode=0x1f004a1b bridge: 0x8086/0x2578 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v1/2 disable mask 0x00000000 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP v3 disable mask 0x00000000 (II) fglrx(0): [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f004b1a (II) fglrx(0): [agp] Remapping MC AGP space (new MCAGPBase = 0xf0000000) (II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP protocol is enabled for graphics board. (cmd=0x1f004312) (II) fglrx(0): [agp] graphics chipset has AGP v3.0 (native mode) (II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
Bugs about binary blobs go upstream since there's obviously nothing we could fix. I.e., bug ATI/AMD.
(In reply to comment #2) > Bugs about binary blobs go upstream since there's obviously nothing we could > fix. I.e., bug ATI/AMD. > *sigh* I surmised so much. I don't really know much about the way 3D acceleration or Xorg works, so I thought that perhaps there was a chance that Xorg was somehow causing the driver to break. If the blame here is solely on ATI, I guess you should probably close the bug. Poor Linux support be damned!
Same problem here, however I think it is baselayout-2 and openrc problem, just a gues. Because after doing: modprobe fglrx /etc/init.d/xdm restart everything works fine. I have this autoconverted in /etc/conf.d/modules: modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} fglrx" module_fglrx_args_2_6="" tried also plain: #modules="fglrx" Yet, dmesg shows fglrx has loded: fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 922 MBytes. [fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed! [fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully! [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.47.3 [Feb 25 2008] on minor 0
8.501 works like a charm... perhaps your kernel .config is the problem?
