Since xorg-xserver-1.5* is stable, the x-server crashes on start: ---- andrews ~ # X -configure X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29.1 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux andrews 2.6.29.1 #2 SMP Sat Apr 11 11:44:26 Local time zone must be set--see zic x86_64 Build Date: 11 April 2009 01:46:06PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 12 18:29:02 2009 List of video drivers: fglrx (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@3:0:0) found (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@3:0:1) found Backtrace: 0: X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e0ec6] 1: X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x484b99] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f34d78b81d0] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbeMain+0x87c) [0x7f34d744761c] 4: X(xf86CallDriverProbe+0x1cf) [0x463daf] 5: X(DoConfigure+0x1b8) [0x47d548] 6: X(InitOutput+0x63a) [0x4645ea] 7: X(main+0x24a) [0x43056a] 8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7f34d78a54a4] 9: X [0x42fb39] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Aborted ---- This is on a newly-installed amd64-system (but the same problem is with my 32-bit system.) andrews ~ # uname -a Linux andrews 2.6.29.1 #2 SMP Sat Apr 11 11:44:26 Local time zone must be set--see zic x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux (My 32-bit-system has a 2.6.28.4 kernel.) andrews ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29.1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:45:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx -m3dnow -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache confcache cvs distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://213.186.33.38/gentoo-distfiles/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/philipp/portage-ol" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amd64 amrnb amrwb apache2 audiofile avahi bash bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi bzip2 calendar cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbus dbx detex dio divx dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran freetds ftp gb gdbm gif gimpprint git glut gmedia gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hal hbci howl iconv icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog jabber jadetex java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kpathsea lesstif libcaca libedit libsamplerate live lm_sensors mad matroska matrox mdnsresponder-compat midi mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ocaml offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png posix ppds pppd prelude profile pulseaudio python qdbm qt quicktime readline realmedia reflection rtsp ruby samba scanner sdl session slang slp smp sndfile snmp soap sockets source sox spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream subversion svg symlink sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xanim xetex xface xine xinerama xorg xosd xpm xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib zoran" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="kbd mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. obtain a ati-graphics-card 2. emerge xorg-xserver ati-drivers 3. ~ # X -configure
1.5 and 1.6 works quite well with 9.X series of ati-drivers (gentoo versioning not the upstream 9.1-9.4) which is only supported. So this is wontfix (sorry).
