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