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I have been been running Arch64 with 2.6.29.4 kernel for a few weeks and I decided to build a custom kernel to see if I can get it running a bit faster. I made some tweaks in config, kernel built and booted just fine but PC froze when Xorg was trying to launch. I have Radeon HD3650 card and ATI Proprietary drivers, I tired recompiling those, recompiling the kernel with some things in graphics devices section reverted to default, nothing helped. "X -configure" pointed me to the "fglrx_drv.so" library which I had to remove (=uninstall "catalyst" and "catalyst-utils"). I am now running the custom kernel with "vesa" driver and it works so far.
There are two things I find a bit odd about this. First, it is strange that just the presence of the "fglrx_drv.so" lib in "/usr/lib/modules/xorg/drivers" crashes Xorg, no matter if I specify "vesa" as the driver in Xorg.conf. Second thing is that the default kernel worked, but after few attempts to get my custom one working it started to behave in the same way.
Here is my custom kernel config http://rafb.net/p/eJs3ik40.html
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If you haven't, you probably need to set _kernver to $(uname -r) in Catalyst's PKGBUILD.
Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-05-23 23:15:18)
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I modified the "_kervner" and I after recompiling the driver I was able to load it by "modprobe fglrx", that was not possible before. But the Xorg still freezes. I believe that there is a problem with "catalyst-utils" package. If remove it, Xorg starts just fine, "catalyst" package itself seems to have no effect on Xorg. I tried to check "PKGBUILD" of "catalyst-utils", but there seems to be no reference to the kernel.
Here is Xorg.log.0 file (though it does not seems to be very helpful) http://rafb.net/p/5Dleew18.html
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