Please hardmask ati-drivers-13.9 ebuild immediatelly, because AMD revoke this release! It have several problems and at least one memory leak, and you mark it as stable? Why you do such strange things? Proofs: 1. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx 2. http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/167491
Please to try be calm when you file bug reports and don't mess with the bugzilla fields if you are unsure what they are used for.
Indeed, I can be calm if such things happens inside "testing" branch, because its OK for it. But marking this "stable" you broke lots of installations. And because ati-drivers-13.4 depend on <=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.49, ppls must downgrade xorg and other libs depended from it. Lot of mess, really. And all of this mess happens inside "stable" branch. Thats wrong, and thats why I'm so angry. There https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475480#c14 someone already post such request, but looks like noone read it.
(In reply to Optimus from comment #2) > Indeed, I can be calm if such things happens inside "testing" branch, > because its OK for it. But marking this "stable" you broke lots of > installations. And because ati-drivers-13.4 depend on > <=x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.49, ppls must downgrade xorg and other libs > depended from it. Lot of mess, really. And all of this mess happens inside > "stable" branch. Thats wrong, and thats why I'm so angry. > > There https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475480#c14 someone already > post such request, but looks like noone read it. It is not Gentoo's fault that upstream releases broken stuff. Redirect your rant to them instead.
(In reply to Optimus from comment #2) With xorg-server-1.14 unsupported by ati-drivers-13.4 we had three choices what to stabilize: 13.6_beta (old, some issues) 13.8_beta (new, other issues like memory leaks) 13.9 (based on 13.6_beta) 13.9 seemed like the best idea at that time, with no reported bugs against specifically that version. The user ignored my request in bug 475480 comment 15. If 13.10_beta is strictly better than 13.9, it will be stabilized soon.
Both 13.8-beta2 and 13.9 have similar issues for me, they both hung my keyboard and mouse after couple of seconds or mouse clicking\moving at KDM login screen. I can poweroff computer by pressing power button (it call ACPI poweroff event by acpid). No oopses or other strange things in dmesg and Xorg.0 logs, so its hard to do good bugreport. 13.4 worked well. I use radeon driver for now due that. Will test 13.10-beta tomorrow. Video is cpu integrated Radeon HD 7660D, x86-64 stable branch.
And yes. I rebuild x86-input-evdev after xorg and driver upgrade.
ati-drivers-13.10-beta working well for me.
Created attachment 360468 [details] grep fglrx /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I am having same problem here. Unfortunately, ati-drivers-13.10-beta doesn't work for me either. (Well, formally X-server starts with 13-10.beta, but display brightness is lo sow that I can barely see gdm login prompt and its nearly impossible to work). Still I'm able to report some logs by logging over ssh.
You should perhaps file a separate bugs for all the problems. It may help other people encountering the same bug and may affect package stabilization. Ati-drivers stabilization strategy is not something can really be improved, while fglrx release quality is poor, we can't fix bugs and user bug reports are qualitative at best. Sorry about that. In theory we could collect quantitative data about driver problems, but bugzilla is not really suited for that. I am also quite sure that most problems won't get reported either way.
This driver causes the screen to lock up and either the systems is blocked (until power cycled) or the system reboots.
And 13.10-beta does work well....
13.9 has been removed from the tree a while ago.
