[SOLVED] I'm experiencing several X-server crashes since update from last Monday
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I'm experiencing several X-server crashes since update from last Monday
Hello together,
I'm running Slackware64-current. Since the upgrade of last Monday I'm experiencing several crashes of the X-server.
It begins with an issue that one Window, e.g. Konsole or Firefox don't become active when clicking them. After some seconds the screen becomes dark and I end up on the console.
First error I saw was from akonadi. Deinstalling akonadi didn't change anything. But there is an errormessage about a segmentation-fault in the Xorg.0.log. I'll append the logfile to this post.
My graphics-card is an ATI HD5470 and have fglrx installed, downloaded from ATI. My kernel is
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Linux samsung 2.6.35.10 #3 SMP Thu Jan 6 20:03:53 CST 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II Dual-Core M320 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Go back to 2.6.35.7, brother! Looks like every ATI owner should do this sadly backward-step ... OR, go forward!
There is no love for us, in 2.6.35.10!
Well, maybe it's the kernel, the fglrx module doesn't compile with many kernels. Which graphics-card do you have? mine is relatively new. It was not well supported by fglrx when I purchased the laptop some month ago.
Markus
Last edited by markush; 01-13-2011 at 03:34 PM.
Reason: typo
I'm running kernel 2.6.36.3 together with fglrx for my HD5850, but fglrx needs some patching to compile with newer kernels. I followed the instructions here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615594 to get it working. I didn't make a pkg though, I just installed the driver, you might need to add the --install flag twice for the installer script to work from an extracted fglrx package. (e.g. ati-installer.sh --install --install)
I've downgraded from current to 13.1 since I'm not yet convinced that my problem really was a kernel-issue.
I'm going to do what JackHair suggested and try out a patched fglrx-driver with a more recent kernel.
At the moment I'm running the stock-13.1 kernel and the 10.12 fglrx module, it seems to work.
I'll mark this thread as SOLVED, but user-experiences with the fglrx-module are still welcome.
Thanks to Darth Vader and JackHair.
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