After merging 8.16.20 and restarting xorg, I get a blank screen. Other people seem to have problems too. Downgrading fixes. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre6 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -ffast-math" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/kde/devel/env /usr/kde/devel/share/config /usr/kde/devel/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/kde-live /usr/local/overlays/bmg-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync5.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="amd64 X aalib alsa apache2 avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb freetype gamin gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imagemagick imlib java jpeg jpg kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba sdl spell sqlite ssl subversion svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vhosts vorbis xine xinerama xml xml2 xpm xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I had problems as well. Not a blank screen, was more like running a virtual desktop, and running at a lower resolution. But, I only have a single resolution defined. Tried generating a new xorg.conf, didn't help. downgrading ati-drivers, and using the same new config, everything works fine. This is with an ATi 9700 mobility. emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2, 2.16-r1, 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus dga directfb dvd dvdread eds encode esd ethereal exif flac foomaticdb ftp gdbm geoip gif gmp gnome gnome-print gnomedb gphoto2 gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib java javascript john jpeg lm_sensors logrotate lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mmap mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mpi msession ncurses nls no-old-linux nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic png pnp posix ppds python quicktime readline rtc samba sasl sdl session sharedmem sockets speex spell ssl sysvipc szip tcltk tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vcd vim-with-x vorbis wifi wxwindows xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
please attach your .config and the xorg.conf
for me it work well... maybe it's issue with x64?
Created attachment 66339 [details] config
Created attachment 66340 [details] xorg.conf
The problem is somewhat related to the screen configuration and the information that the monitor passes back to X...
I had a similar problem - the driver would come up in 1600x1200 mode, which does not work well on my 1280x1024 LCD. I managed to solve the problem by two changes to my xorg.conf file: 1. Delete or comment out the line: Option "DesktopSetup" 2. Activate (uncomment) the line: Virtual 1280 1024 In other words, I now have: Section "Device" # Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)" [...] Section "Screen" [...] Subsection "Display" [...] Virtual 1280 1024 After these changes, the X server behaves better than the previous version: I can now switch between X and the text console without system crash; see http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=37
I had the same problem - the issue is that the driver by default tries to send the output to the TV out instead of the CRT. The way I solved this was to add Option "ForceMonitors" "notv" to the "Device" section of my xorg.conf.
I had a blank screen problem too, however it was solved by inserting the correct AGP module into the kernel. By default the driver inserts the agpgart module and not the amd64_agp module if you make sure it's in your kernel config and modprobe it before you insert the fglrx module you should find that it works
(In reply to comment #8) > I had the same problem - the issue is that the driver by default tries to send > the output to the TV out instead of the CRT. The way I solved this was to add > > Option "ForceMonitors" "notv" > > to the "Device" section of my xorg.conf. Yeah, this fixes it for me too (this applies to 8.18.6, it's because ati have disabled some of the old options in xorg.conf). Maybe an einfo/ewarn should be put in the ebuild about this?
I'll add some lines soon
Created attachment 76522 [details] Xorg Config
Comment on attachment 76522 [details] Xorg Config Running kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.15 with ATI Drivers 8.20.8 Adding this option to the Xorg.conf file, Option "ForceMonitors" "notv" This will result in an error on my machine when using GDM after logging out again. Results: 1. Login with GDM 2. Logout of Gnome 3. I get a grey screen with only the input box visible and nothing else. Going to any console will result in a grey screen. Computer will still reboot with Ctrl+alt+del Expected results: 1. Login with GDM 2. Logout of Gnome 3. Get a clean login screen with GDM again Solution: Remove 'Option "ForceMonitors" "notv"' from Xorg.conf ATI Card: Radeon 9200 Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage.distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="sv_SE.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr emboss encode esd exif expat fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl snmp spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_-sis video_cards_-rage128 video_cards_-matrox video_cards_-3dfx video_cards_-gamma video_cards_-i8x0" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The issue should be resolved now
