[SOLVED] Opengl crashes session after catalyst install (Fedora 18, KDE, Radeon HD6310)

sabresong · 06-11-2013, 07:49 AM

I installed the catalyst package in an attempt to solve a video issue I was having with an application. After a moment, my session crashed and I was dropped to the login screen. When I logged back in, the system was set to use xrender. There was a warning on the opengl page in System Settings >> Desktop Effects stating that opengl had crashed Kwin.

Now setting the system back to opengl causes an immediate session crash, and I'm back to the login screen.

Removing the catalyst drivers results in the system hanging at the Fedora logo on reboot.

Selecting opengl in Kinfocenter also crashes the session.

Restoring the original xorg.conf had no effect.

I've seen several threads similar to this problem on a number of forums, but they've all beem nvidia related, and the solutions have all involved nvidia-specific packages.

HP 2000-416DX
ATI Radeon HD 6310
AMD E-300 APU
Fedora 18
KDE
X-server version: 11.0

adamk75 · 06-11-2013, 09:56 PM

So what do you want to use at the moment, the open source driver or the proprietary driver?

Which ever one you want to use, show the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from when you try and use that driver.

sabresong · 06-12-2013, 10:17 AM

Thanks for the response, and sorry for the lack of clarity. No matter how much I try to include everything I think will help solve a problem, I still manage to forget something important!

I'd like to use the proprietary drivers (kmod-catalyst).

I've attached /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

And thanks in advance for helping me out with this.

sabresong · 06-12-2013, 01:36 PM

Update: I had a look at the fglrx install log, and it says installation failed because it can't find the kernel headers. But the headers it's looking for seem to be for FC17:

Code:

/lib/modules/3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64/build/include/linux/version.h cannot be found on this system.

I had FC17, but upgraded to 18 using the fedup utility. Still I checked, and I have FC 18 kernel-headers and kernel-devel installed

sabresong · 06-12-2013, 09:00 PM

I dug a bit deeper and found that both kmod-catalyst and akmod-catalyst were installed. I removed them both, rebooted and reinstalled akmod-catalyst, as I read in another forum that it was less likely to conflict with future kernel updates than kmod-catalyst. I rebooted again, ran "sudo aticonfig --initial", and the problem was solved. I don't have a clue as to why the install log said it was looking for FC17 packages, but it's working now, so I'll just go with it.