Bug 258083

Summary:	x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.573-r1 white screen - broken AIGLX
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jared Kidd <junkxamindar>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	major	CC:	je_fro, x11
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jared Kidd 2009-02-08 03:31:22 UTC

on the most recent update AIGLX was broken in ati-drivers.
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r2 
[ebuild   R   ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.573-r1 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.update xorg-server
2.update ati-drivers
3.(might be caused by something else that was updated)
4. DRI still works but no AIGLX so I get a white screen compiz loads

Actual Results:  
AIGLX is broken falling back to a non-functional software mode:

(EE) AIGLX error: fglrx exports no extensions (/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering 

Expected Results:  
AIGLX should work once the driver is installed

I was able to fix it by simply copying a few files (found the info in an older bug so this is now resurfacing):

cp /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/* /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ 

Once I did that it was all back to normal again. 

Should this be added to the ati-drivers ebuild to correct this broken AIGLX?

Comment 1 Radu Benea 2009-02-11 02:32:02 UTC

I'm not sure it's a solution to your problem but you forgot:
eselect opengl set ati

Comment 2 Jared Kidd 2009-02-11 04:36:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure it's a solution to your problem but you forgot:
> eselect opengl set ati
> 

I hadn't mentioned it in the bug report because I thought that was a given. Yes I had tried eselect opengl set ati and it didn't do a thing to resolve it.

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-01 13:20:16 UTC

Please try to update onto 9.8 version of the driver and reopen if problem still happens.