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resettik

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Registered: 2018-05-26

Posts: 4

ATI driver crash during xfwm4 start

Hi guys, have really old laptop with old ATI card on board.

After latest update (doing updates really rarely) was unable to login to my xfce session. tried with i3wm - everything is working perfect. attaching Xorg logs here...

# lspci | grep VGA

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200]

Xorg log with errors

[  3153.260] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event6)
[  3153.260] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[  3153.260] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[  3376.322] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 33140
[  3376.322] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[  3376.323] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz eP)
[  3402.516] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 33140
[  3402.517] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[  3402.517] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz eP)
[  3403.769] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 33140
[  3403.776] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[  3403.776] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz eP)
[  3403.856] (EE) 
[  3403.856] (EE) Backtrace:
[  3403.856] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x4d) [0x555b4734bc9d]
[  3403.856] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x555b471c2000+0x189dd9) [0x555b4734bdd9]
[  3403.856] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7fb4e3a18000+0x368f0) [0x7fb4e3a4e8f0]
[  3403.856] (EE) 3: /usr/bin/X (miRenderColorToPixel+0xe) [0x555b47320f7e]
[  3403.856] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x7fb4dbed4000+0x11af8) [0x7fb4dbee5af8]
[  3403.857] (EE) 5: /usr/bin/X (0x555b471c2000+0x15d6af) [0x555b4731f6af]
[  3403.857] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/X (0x555b471c2000+0x10488a) [0x555b472c688a]
[  3403.857] (EE) 7: /usr/bin/X (0x555b471c2000+0x37ef8) [0x555b471f9ef8]
[  3403.857] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xeb) [0x7fb4e3a3b06b]
[  3403.857] (EE) 9: /usr/bin/X (_start+0x2a) [0x555b471fa21a]
[  3403.857] (EE) 
[  3403.857] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x8
[  3403.857] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  3403.857] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  3403.857] (EE) 
[  3403.857] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  3403.857] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  3403.857] (EE) 
[  3403.857] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[  3403.876] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

# pacman -Q | grep xorg

xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
xorg-iceauth 1.0.8-1
xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-8
xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.3-1
xorg-server 1.20.0-2
xorg-server-common 1.20.0-2
xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.1-1
xorg-xauth 1.0.10-1
xorg-xdpyinfo 1.3.2-1
xorg-xinit 1.4.0-3
xorg-xkbcomp 1.4.1-1
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.9-1
xorg-xrdb 1.1.1-1
xorg-xset 1.2.4-1
xorgproto 2018.4-1

xfwm4 4.12.4-1

xf86-video-ati 1:18.0.1-2

Can anyone help me with this? completely failed to fix that and have no idea about further steps.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,428

Re: ATI driver crash during xfwm4 start

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58662?

resettik

Member

Registered: 2018-05-26

Posts: 4

Re: ATI driver crash during xfwm4 start

Wow! Many thanks! Looks like it's my problem. Probably thread can be closed