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Gert

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Registered: 2008-01-30

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Cannot startx with Catalyst 8.8 - cannot downgrade either

Hi, after post-holidays system upgrade I installed Catalyst 8.8.
After that I cannot startx:

(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Sep  3 13:17:18 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: miZeroLineScreenIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.

So I tried to downgrade, but compilation of Catalyst 8.7 gives this error (while catalyst-utils 8.7 builds):

Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.512........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
patching file lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2724 (offset 56 lines).
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26-ARCH'
  CC [M]  /home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.o
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_GetInitKerPte':
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2744: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2744: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2744: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_GetPte':
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2782: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_GetPageTableByVirtAddr':
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2845: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_TestAndClearPageDirtyFlag':
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:2972: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_GetDmaPhysAddr':
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:3016: error: 'NOPAGE_SIGBUS' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c: At top level:
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4177: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4177: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4195: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4195: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4202: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4202: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4209: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4209: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4216: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4216: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4223: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4223: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4230: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4230: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4239: error: unknown field 'nopage' specified in initializer
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:4239: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:6768: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.c:6794: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[1]: *** [/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_/home/gert/abs/catalyst/src/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26-ARCH'
==> ERRORE: Compilazione interrotta.
    L'operazione sta per essere interrotta...

Same error with catalyst 8.6

My card is an ATI Mobility Radeon x1450 (yes, horrible, I know) and all was ok since the upgrade.
I managed to set up a running X with radeonhd but without acceleration and other problems (corruption with maximized applications).

Ah, modprobing fglrx gives this:

sudo modprobe -v fglrx 
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-ARCH/video/fglrx.ko

and lsmod shows fglrx probed:

 lsmod |grep fglrx
fglrx                1757280  0 
agpgart                29652  2 fglrx,intel_agp

I tried to re-create xorg.conf with hwd -xa and aticonfig --initial but it didn't help: same error as above.

....so, I don't know what else to try. Any help, idea or suggestion (apart from trashing my video card) would be appreciate.

EDIT: downgrading xorg-server brought X server with catalyst 8.8 to life. Now my resolution is 1024x768 (used to be 1200x800) and I'm trying to solve this last problem.

EDIT2: deleting all the modelines (didn't notice them cause they were generated by aticonfi --intial ... bah, their tool) from xorg.conf section "monitor" and "screen" solved the problem. Now all is ok.

Last edited by Gert (2008-09-03 12:20:15)

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Re: Cannot startx with Catalyst 8.8 - cannot downgrade either

http://www.archlinux.org/news/407/  <-- if you're using testing, this news post is for you