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 1SaMzl-0000j0-RC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:14:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95186E04C1; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F32E027D for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 08:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagu2 with SMTP id u2so1484799lag.40 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:11:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=M9JXNXd4Wmmn1AkVdGwkfrINvNLfApF+CISeJLaeUBs=; b=RGrgKI+40Gj2CCywRSaGigIDp4zMuhD4vYtc3/jSr4b5RGp9tFc7ADg1Q8RtXk4Eyh ZIRDTUk9eyF9VKa+/nVh0v7kkvK4k88fa0YOeeY0lMUDskj18DxZyKHQQWjuiFGuSwBj TcJZ1oy2rE015c/dH3t1oZhPkkOevU87wJAAfFAx1HQgjYj3/xHhUp0LcGx6kTu6QHGJ n+/vQaO5CVgINZm8/wEvIkV0JB03ivYfwUWfAxdMKIg+T72J/FJPLJiPhP7kLBWyE/M2 sWavQ8Ze++dKSTdJjBxnebm7mEg1MzWIL2D3tlUMtY5KVrOqrB5YrpNuM46Bk4E8Umiq vgHw== Received: by 10.152.146.67 with SMTP id ta3mr1791884lab.27.1338538315219; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:11:55 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.112.111.230 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 01:11:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <00F2F686C9B74D02A9E34DAE5334A49C@mic2> References: <00F2F686C9B74D02A9E34DAE5334A49C@mic2> From: Andrey Moshbear Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 04:11:35 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver issue or hardware issue? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 136cb760-0cad-48e7-ab10-f28687b87934 X-Archives-Hash: 41e114db59901a65f2a2cd717d044e82 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