Bug 257536

Summary:	fatal server error with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.573 and x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.561
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Loop <mosaic_loop>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	enrico.tagliavini, je_fro, x11
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	The Xorg log when i loaded 8.573 xorg.conf I'm using

Description Loop 2009-02-03 22:21:37 UTC

After emerging ati-drivers-8.573 or ati-drivers-8.561 X crashes. Visually it seems kdm is starting (can see the gray window of kdm greeter for a moment) but then it reverts back to terminal prompt. It retries starting few times in the same way and then halts. All ok with 8.552-r2 and older versions.
I have a radeon 9600 256MB card, running 2.6.27-r8 kernel. 
Will post Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf asap.

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ati-drivers-8.573 (or ati-drivers-8.561)
2. restart

Comment 1 Loop 2009-02-03 22:24:17 UTC

Created attachment 180855 [details]
The Xorg log when i loaded 8.573

Mainly this part:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x812887b]
1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x80c8c71]
2: [0xb7fa9400]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so(XAAComposite+0x16e) [0xb74c1f4e]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb74de0ef]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x816ca09]
6: /usr/bin/X(CompositePicture+0x168) [0x8153628]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x8159416]
8: /usr/bin/X [0x81561c5]
9: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x33f) [0x8088f1f]
10: /usr/bin/X(main+0x465) [0x806fa85]
11: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7b36fdc]
12: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1f9) [0x806eea1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 8.  Server aborting

Comment 2 Loop 2009-02-03 22:24:45 UTC

Created attachment 180856 [details]
xorg.conf I'm using

Comment 3 Loop 2009-02-06 16:27:58 UTC

I found out that the options causing the crash are:

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"

...

        Option "Textured2D" "on"
        Option "TexturedXRender" "on"

...

EndSection

Those two, if set together, cause the crash.

I don't know what should i do now with the bug, consider it fixed or leave as new?

Comment 4 Enrico Tagliavini 2010-10-03 16:50:42 UTC

A note about this in the gentoo ati faq might me worth.

Anyway it is a good policy to leave the driver settings as default, if they are not enabled by default there is a reason :)

Comment 5 Enrico Tagliavini 2010-11-23 23:48:56 UTC

I think this can be marked as fixed since one of the 2 option is no more used by fglrx (at least if you are using the new d2d engine)

(WW) fglrx(0): Option "Textured2D" is not used