gdm won't come up after kernel upgrade

adamk75 · 08-22-2010, 07:17 PM

So fglrx is currently uninstalled on your machine? What's the output of 'lsmod | grep fglrx'?

Adam

jrdioko · 08-22-2010, 07:25 PM

Every time I try something new, I restart into the new kernel, uninstall everything fglrx-related, install it from backports and try whatever you suggest, it fails, then I remove everything fglrx-related, install it again for lenny, and restart into the old kernel.

I tried that again just to make sure, and after I remove everything lsmod shows no fglrx.

adamk75 · 08-22-2010, 07:34 PM

Then I have no idea what's going on. If the fglrx kernel module doesn't exist after you remove all the fglrx related packages, yet it's still loading a different version from the Xorg driver, then the installer is somehow building that different version kernel module. I have never heard of that happening before and can only assume the Debian installer is doing something stupid.

Adam

jrdioko · 08-22-2010, 11:37 PM

Hmm, well if DKMS is messing up with the kernel module, I thought I'd try building it manually again. So I removed all packages, then ran "m-a a-i fglrx". That downloaded the source, started the build, and reported that the build failed:

Code:

/usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/fglrx'
dh_testroot
rm -f configure-stamp
rm -f fglrx.ko fglrx.mod.c *.o libfglrx_ip.a
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -rf .tmp_versions
rm -rf patch
dh_clean
rm -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control
rm -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/dirs
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fglrx'
/usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules binary_modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/fglrx'
if [ -f /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control.template ]; then \
                cat /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control.template > /usr/src/modules/fglrx/debian/control; \
        fi
dh_testdir
touch configure-stamp
dh_testdir
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-bpo.5-686/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/fglrx modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.5-686'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.o
In file included from /usr/src/modules/fglrx/drmP.h:86,
                 from /usr/src/modules/fglrx/drm_proc.h:41,
                 from /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:429:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/drm_os_linux.h:45: error: conflicting types for ‘irqreturn_t’
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.5-common/include/linux/irqreturn.h:16: error: previous declaration of ‘irqreturn_t’ was here
In file included from /usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:429:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/drm_proc.h: In function ‘FGLDRM__vma_info’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/drm_proc.h:497: warning: format ‘%08lx’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 5 has type ‘phys_addr_t’
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_GetEffectiveUid’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:1453: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_PosixSecurityCapSetIPCLock’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:1808: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘cap_effective’
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:1812: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘cap_effective’
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_InstallInterruptHandler’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:2659: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘request_irq’ from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KCL_MEM_VM_GetRegionPhysAddrStr’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3223: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3224: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3225: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:3227: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c: In function ‘KAS_Ih_Execute’:
/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.c:4202: warning: ‘return’ with no value, in function returning non-void
make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/fglrx/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/fglrx] Error 2
make[3]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-bpo.5-686'
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/fglrx'
make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2

Any insight on that? Thanks again!

EDIT: I realize the problem was probably that it was trying to use the fglrx-source package in stable, not lenny-backports. I downloaded fglrx-source from backports directly and repeated the process, and it installed the module fine (8.72.5). Is the problem maybe that I need a new xorg before I can use the new fglrx? Maybe I need to just wait for the next stable release to fix all this...

adamk75 · 08-23-2010, 06:05 AM

Sorry, but at this point I'm out of my depth. I think I just don't know enough about Debian releases to be any help here.

Adam

jrdioko · 08-23-2010, 09:50 AM

Alright, well thanks anyway for all your help!