Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

Summary: still hosed; newest drivers no help

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:27 PM, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I got caught by this upgrade (though I am not using ati-drivers) and had
> oops's that at first seemed to be xorgs fault.  While -hal helped a lot
> (what a fiasco!), there seems to be a bug in 2.6.29 and updates to
> reiserfs (yes, reiserfs is still maintained and being updated - look for
> slowpath bug in kernel) that only manifested itself to me after
> upgrading xorg-server.  Last message I saw was 2.6.30 will probably have
> a fix for it, but in the meantime, downgrade to 2.6.28 and see if that
> helps.
>
> The ati system is definitely affected by this (oops in reiserfs on
> screen), whilst an intel i915 laptop (also reiserfs) was also much more
> stable on 2.6.28 and upgraded xorg-server - however this one doesnt give
> any indication except for a hard hang with nothing logged (which implies
> its the filesystem so no log is written) when running on 2.6.29 for a
> few hours.
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>> >> David Relson wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700
>> >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Summary: X is hosed.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions
>> >>> of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message
>> >>> subject.  I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was
>> >>> good.  If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and,
>> >>> after correcting that, fonts weren't being found.  All is now working
>> >>> fine.  Below is my xorg.conf.  Hope it helps.
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards,
>> >>>
>> >>> David
>> >>>
>> >>> ### Begin xorg.conf ###
>> >>>
>> i
>> >>> ### End xorg.conf ###
>> >>
>> >> This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all.  If it works, it is probably
>> >> running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps).  You need to run
>> >> "aticonfig --initial" as root first.
>> >
>> > Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time?
>> >
>> > - Mark
>>
>> When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault.
>>  The same thing happens when I use David's.
>>
>> Things are not going well.
>>
>> ++ kevin
>>
>>
>>
> --
> William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
> Home in Perth!

I compiled ati-drivers-8.593 (after making required mods to kernel
configuration); no help.  There's even an additional error message.

From the above conversation, however, it may be I don't need them.
I'm not aware of running OpenGL, so it could be complaining about some
other driver.

With the short xorg.conf, the error messages are different --
including one about the
mouse interface not loading.  With no xorg.conf, it seems to try more
variations, but
there's still no joy.

Getting desperate....

Anyway, with no xorg.conf, I see
============= screen stuff starts
treat ~ # startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.6892


X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor i686
Current Operating System: Linux treat 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor #6 SMP
PREEMPT Sat May 23 19:17:22 PDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 23 May 2009  03:19:26PM

	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat May 23 22:14:09 2009
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
New driver is "ati"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (4)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (4)
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
treat ~ #
========================end of run with no xorg.conf

If I use the simple one first given, I get

==================== start of screen stuff
treat X11 # startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.6933


X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor i686
Current Operating System: Linux treat 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor #6 SMP
PREEMPT Sat May 23 19:17:22 PDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 23 May 2009  03:19:26PM

	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat May 23 22:16:03 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so: undefined symbol:
miPointerGetMotionEvents
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
treat X11 #
================= end screen stuff

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD