LinuxQuestions.org - fglrx segfaults on Radeon HD 4500

Hello all,

Due to the rather underwhelming handling of HDMI on the opensource radeon drivers, I am attempting to install the proprietary ATI driver on stock Slackware64 13.37. The binary appears to run and build the driver correctly, and I've done the usual 'aticonfig --initial' after installing. On reboot, however, startx will crash due to a segfault. I haven't found much useful information on this card after quite a bit of googling, but it appears as though it should work with the proprietary driver. Here is the relevant output from Xorg.0.log:

Code:

Backtrace:

[  114.745] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a02d8]

[  114.745] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x60fc9) [0x460fc9]

[  114.745] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7ff375899000+0x340b0) [0x7ff3758cd0b0]

[  114.745] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so (0x7ff370689000+0x641e2) [0x7ff3706ed1e2]

[  114.745] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so (0x7ff370689000+0x62473) [0x7ff3706eb473]

[  114.746] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so (esutAddSrcSurf+0x1a) [0x7ff3706ea58a]

[  114.746] 6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so (0x7ff370689000+0x50ca0) [0x7ff3706d9ca0]

[  114.746] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7ff3736e4000+0x430890) [0x7ff373b14890]

[  114.746] 8: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7ff3736e4000+0x4302ca) [0x7ff373b142ca]

[  114.746] 9: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_x760_swlDriBlockHandler+0x74) [0x7ff373b2b254]

[  114.746] 10: /usr/bin/X (BlockHandler+0x8d) [0x431efd]

[  114.746] 11: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x10f) [0x45a49f]

[  114.746] 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2dc72) [0x42dc72]

[  114.746] 13: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x21ffe) [0x421ffe]

[  114.747] 14: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7ff3758b7e5d]

[  114.747] 15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x21bb9) [0x421bb9]

[  114.747] Segmentation fault at address 0x10

[  114.747] 

Fatal server error:

[  114.747] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

[  114.747] 

[  114.747]

This is a grep of the warnings from the log:

Code:

bash-4.1$ grep WW Xorg.0.log.old 

        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

[  110.275] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.

[  110.275] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.

[  110.651] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx

[  110.699] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@2:0:1) found

[  110.879] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported

[  111.518] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used

[  111.518] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used

Finally, here is the xorg.conf created by aticonfig:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier    "aticonfig Layout"

        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0

EndSection



Section "Module"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

        Identifier  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"

        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"

        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"

        Option      "DPMS" "true"

EndSection



Section "Device"

        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"

        Driver      "fglrx"

        BusID      "PCI:2:0:0"

EndSection



Section "Screen"

        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"

        Device    "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"

        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"

        DefaultDepth    24

        SubSection "Display"

                Viewport  0 0

                Depth    24

        EndSubSection

EndSection

Otherwise, there are no errors in the log. Is anyone familiar with the quirks of this card, or what kind of configuration is needed to get it runnning on Slackware?

Thanks