ATI Proprietry Driver Causes X to hang on shutdown

BuckRogers01 · 03-12-2006, 01:35 PM

Hi, I have a major problem whereby, when I try to kill X (either by shuting down, rebooting, Ctrl + C from console), X hangs, If I kill it in the console, I get the error message:

Quote:

Trying to close x server....... (or words to that effect)
xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal.
xinit: can't kill server

However this only happens when I'm using the latest ATI proprietry driver. If I use the vesa driver, it works, and X can close, but my monitor just turns off (but the PC still shutdowns).

I have a Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (which is dual-head)

Does anybody know what could be causing the X server to hang on shutdown?

Any information would be greatly appreciated, Buck

P.S. Heres my xorg.conf

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig Screen 0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Files"
                        # local font server
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        # paths to defoma fonts
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath     "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "CorePointer"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Generic Monitor"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 65.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig Monitor 0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X850 XT PE (R480)"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device     "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X850 XT PE (R480)"
        Monitor    "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig Screen 0"
        Device     "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon X850 XT PE (R480)"
        Monitor    "aticonfig Monitor 0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

skubik · 03-18-2006, 05:09 AM

I'm having the same problem on a Dell Inspiron 9300 (Radeon X300). Shutting down hangs x.org - but I am unable to switch to another terminal to gracefully shut down the system. My only option is to use the power button to switch the machine off.

BuckRogers01 · 03-18-2006, 11:44 AM

well, I have found what was causing it (and *fixed* it if you could call it that)

Are you by any change running a 2.6.15-r7 kernel (or just 2.6.15) if so, try downgrading to 2.6.14-r7.

I don't know if that was what fixed it, or if it was disabling kernel debugging (I do't know if it was enabled though). Anyway, I read that downgrading to 2.6.14 worked for someone else, and it also worked for me

Hope this helps

skubik · 03-19-2006, 01:38 PM

I *do* happen to be running 2.6.15.1, and I know for a fact that I do not have kernel debugging enabled. It's times like this I with ATI would beef up their linux support a little more. Alas, one can always dream... <sigh>.
I will try this.

[Edit: I just checked out ATI's site, and version 8.23.7 of their linux driver was posted on 03/08/06 - so I may try this driver first before downgrading my kernel]