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kevin89

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Registered: 2007-03-14

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X / Catalyst / Freeze

As always, the catalyst driver drives me into banging my head into a brick wall.
I'm trying my luck with the catalyst driver this time around. Predictable, my system freezes with a black screen after X is started (you can also see the mouse cursor), and it doesn't respond to anything except the power button.

Here are some specifications about my system:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+
Graphics Card: Ati Radeon 9800XT

Kernel version: 2.6.25-ARCH
Catalyst version: 8.5-1
X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
DE: Kdemod 3.5.9

/etc/rc.conf
http://pastebin.com/f327d3a6e

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
http://pastebin.com/f180d29a1

/var/log/Xorg.log
http://pastebin.com/f43d12cfc

The Xorg.log states:

Receive enable interrupt ret message
...irqEnableMask: 20008000
...dwIRQEnableId: 00000004
Receive enable interrupt ret message
...irqEnableMask: 10000000
...dwIRQEnableId: 00000005

I think this is where the problems come in. However, I googled this problem with no success.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Your friendly neighbour,
Kevin

Last edited by kevin89 (2008-05-26 11:41:24)

Cerebral

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

Try turning off Textured2D and TexturedRXrender, mv /etc/ati/amdpcsdb ~, then restart X

kevin89

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-14

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

It did work for ~5 seconds, then it freezed (froze? my English isn't that good.) again. Thanks for your input.

wangjun

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From: China

Registered: 2007-11-08

Posts: 8

Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

Here is my xorg.conf,perhaps it can help you.

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "dell101"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "Auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option         "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    option      "TexturedVideo" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    option "XVideo" "Enable"
    option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by wangjun (2008-05-26 13:45:01)

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kevin89

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 218

Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

I've tried your xorg.conf wangjun. Unfortunately, the result stays the same.
I've been trying to dis/en-able some options in my xorg.conf, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Does anybody know if the "interrupt ret message" (see OP) are useful information?

Cerebral

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

Those Interrupt messages seem informative more than anything - I think they're related to a new file in 8.5, and you can probably ignore them

Did you move /etc/ati/amdpcsdb away after your xorg.conf changes?  That file overrides xorg.conf

kevin89

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Registered: 2007-03-14

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

Thanks for the info on the interrupt messages.

I did move the /etc/ati/amdpcsdb file away. How come this file is even included, isn't it unneccessary since we already have /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Also, xorg.conf is more familiar.

Cerebral

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

That's AMD's decision.  Apparently it only stores fglrx-specific config info, and you can modify it with amdcccle or aticonfig

kevin89

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Re: X / Catalyst / Freeze

Cerebral, thanks for the clarification.

I've tried alot and came to the same conclusion: my ATI card just doesn't work with the catalyst drivers. Time to get a new (nvidea) card.
'Till that time I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver without xorg.conf, it works.