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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 358

Blank screen with Kernel 2.6.32 and Catalyst

Second "upgrade" problem, starting X with the latest Catalyst causes the monitor to switch off. The output of startx does not point to any problems. This is with and ATI Radeon HD 4850.

arlite

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From: .de

Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 31

Re: Blank screen with Kernel 2.6.32 and Catalyst

I have the same problem and gpu here. Switching off monitor on tty7 fglrx adds this line to dmesg output:

[fglrx:fireglAsyncioIntEnableMsgHandler] *ERROR* IRQMGR returned error 1 when trying to enable interrupt source ff000035

Problem occurs with both aur/catalyst and aur/catalyst-opencl. System: x86_64, Xorg.0.log

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Blank screen with Kernel 2.6.32 and Catalyst

Works here.

Troubleshooting howto:

1: check that you have the older xorg
2: boot to new kernel commandline -> put 3 on grub menuline if you use inittab method for starting X
3: compile catalyst using new kernel
4: delete /etc/ati/amdpcdb  <-- or similar
5: disable kms

Hope it works after that.

Edit : using x86_64 + hd4850

Last edited by Mikko777 (2010-01-04 13:05:54)

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arlite

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From: .de

Registered: 2008-05-02

Posts: 31

Re: Blank screen with Kernel 2.6.32 and Catalyst

Works here.
4: delete /etc/ati/amdpcdb  <-- or similar

That did it! Now I remember that this directory has already been a troublemaker some months ago.

Thank you.

domanov

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-11-10

Posts: 45

Re: Blank screen with Kernel 2.6.32 and Catalyst

That did not for me. I upgraded today from a working kernel 2.6.31-6/catalyst 9.11 to 2.6.32-2/9.12 (xorg-server still 1.6.3.901-1).
With the old xorg.conf I get a blank screen but apparently X is running: I can kill it with ctrl+alt+backspc and use my keyboard shortcuts to launch programs, then switching to console I can see those.
Any idea?

Edit: x86_64, no testing

Edit 2: the problem seems related to my dual screen configuration. Something works with an aticonfig --initial generated xorg.conf but if I try to add the line:

Option "EnableRandR12" "false"

which I had in my previous xorg.conf, it blanks.

Also very interesting: if I try Xorg -configure it breaks giving a backtrace, apparently a segfault.
Mmh, no clue here.

Last edited by domanov (2010-01-05 16:44:31)