From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SXFul-0002q7-2m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 18:04:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B587E0777 for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 18:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from grace.univie.ac.at (grace.univie.ac.at [131.130.3.115]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF18E078D for ; Wed, 23 May 2012 15:12:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unet.univie.ac.at; s=rev2; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Date:Subject:References:To:From:Reply-To:Message-ID; bh=HwJ9CYNIPTt0I0joDLYMCDQm5BmWjIJsD1pMly+e7gg=; b=K/J/mmibYhEuo6OHkOEal/HVQQNq4CGUg/w7evR1182hizQPrT8H4x0NmD/PR+VayXtdef16Rj/2isC1kKCTFu09UBGnhAVi6viNRUQUhSiZF2uWl+8jQpd24k/7fHpbXrBrQE2n+ts+fLXlgigmQOj9CzTeJgz2mi5Cb3ghOe4=; Received: from justin.univie.ac.at ([131.130.3.111] helo=justin.univie.ac.at) by grace.univie.ac.at with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXDEj-0005ul-HH for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 17:12:29 +0200 Received: from chello080108107225.27.11.wu-wien.teleweb.at ([80.108.107.225] helo=mic2) by justin.univie.ac.at with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXDEj-0002Kx-EL for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2012 17:12:29 +0200 Message-ID: <00F2F686C9B74D02A9E34DAE5334A49C@mic2> From: "Michael Scherer" To: References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue? Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:12:29 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Univie-Virus-Scan: scanned by ClamAV on justin.univie.ac.at X-Archives-Salt: dcfa3446-54be-4f5a-aeab-fafc79719a45 X-Archives-Hash: e48c83f8078591156c5d11db64b2f790 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrey Moshbear" To: "gentoo-user" 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