Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue?

["Michael Scherer" <a6702894@unet.univie.ac.at>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrey Moshbear" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 08:02
Subject: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue?


> Lately, I've been having some issues with segfaults when running
> startx and it's been pretty persistent.
> 
> Xorg.0.log and emerge --info are available at https://gist.github.com/2766926 .
> Kernel config is available at https://gist.github.com/276943 .
> 
> I've tried downgrading, but <=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2 fails
> to compile due to incomplete structs.
> 
> Is this more a driver or a hardware issue?
> 
> --
> 001100 m0shbear
> 010010
> 011110 andrey at moshbear dot net
> 100001 andrey dot vul at gmail
> 101101
> 110011
> 
>

first thing thing is your usage of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64". with ~amd64 you globally
allow all packages masked for amd64. unless you are a developer/tester for gentoo you should remove
this keyword, because gentoo usually has good reasons to mask some packages. if for some reason you
really need a masked package, you can do this easily only for that package.
global unmasking alone might be the reason for half of your troubles.

second, it is advisable to use kernel modesetting, which is obviously not enabled. gentoo has a detailed
howto for this under http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml. this gives you all necessary details.

just a quick shot for the moment. your kernel config doesn't under the link you give, I'd like to see that
too, and maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, if you have any of these,

regards, nichael