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 1Sbvui-0005Up-2R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:43:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB1EE066B; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from grace.univie.ac.at (grace.univie.ac.at [131.130.3.115]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD57E06B0 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:41:16 +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:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=5Ky6ypuBGFP/rCqtiPqoBsGzJO5E7js/k9Fbw6cKzb8=; b=q01zuWOxOk0hz47tuIOMjMeiXc77PYCnJeILIPin0D57t9Dp3diOPEkk24/DUEOgqXvNRKx/stIkFo6WVt5CX0j0iNMPI8TtKH9YvlZaeEVaHmTwziferOzLaaasPxehA6mZasQFJQHt0sHqHcbjxWhtAyEyiIaG7J2QbCAT6Ig=; Received: from justin.univie.ac.at ([131.130.3.111] helo=justin.univie.ac.at) by grace.univie.ac.at with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Sbvsh-0003Yq-C0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:41:15 +0200 Received: from chello080108107225.27.11.wu-wien.teleweb.at ([80.108.107.225] helo=localhost) by justin.univie.ac.at with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Sbvsh-0005Md-8A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:41:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:41:14 +0200 From: Michael Scherer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue? Message-ID: <20120605174114.26bf31db@unet.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: References: <00F2F686C9B74D02A9E34DAE5334A49C@mic2> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Univie-Virus-Scan: scanned by ClamAV on justin.univie.ac.at X-Archives-Salt: ffd5686d-c41e-4006-94b6-329238c10021 X-Archives-Hash: b989fd3000c626ac56f5042d28bcde01 On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 04:11:35 -0400 Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Scherer > wrote: > > ----- 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? > >> > > > > 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 > > > > > > Well, I added radeon drm & modesetting and the kernel is crashing > right after the microcode is loaded, but without any signs of panic, > be it flashing keyboard lights or kernel backtrace with register > values. > > Also, the segfault was caused by the DRI code interpreting a DRI > opcode as a pointer, hence 0xa4 or similar in the back trace. > > -- > m0shbear > in any case, I'd need some more information: the link to your .config is broken, I only get an empty page. if the kernel is involved, output of dmesg and rc.log would be needed to. by the way, did you anything with your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS? if not, the best thing would be set it simply ="" (and afterwards --update world, --depclean and revdep-rebuild), but that's up to you. please send me the requested information, otherwise it's difficult to find out what's wrong. regards, michael