[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#521655: Confirmation

[Don Pellegrino]

I can confirm that this is still a problem with the Catalyst 9.3 driver.
Downgrading libdrm2 is a useful work-around for the Catalyst 9.3 driver.
I simply downgraded from unstable (sid) with the following command:

# aptitude install libdrm2/stable

I did a reinstall of the Catalyst 9.3 packages and a rebuild of the
kernel module after the downgrade but I don't know if that was
necessary.  I thought I'd add the following error messages to this bug
report to facilitate it getting picked up by searchers:

# cat Xorg.0.log | grep EE

(EE) Failed to load module "fgl.renamed.libdri" (module does not exist,
0)
(EE) fglrx(0): [FB] Can not get FB MC address range.
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. 
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.

I have pinned the AMD/ATI Catalyst 9.3 drivers along with libdrm2 until
this bug is closed:

# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: fglrx-amdcccle
Pin: version 8.593-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: fglrx-driver
Pin: version 8.593-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: fglrx-driver-dev
Pin: version 8.593-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: fglrx-kernel-src
Pin: version 8.593-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: libdrm2
Pin: version 2.3.1-2
Pin-Priority: 1001

John Gruenenfelder that was some excellent debugging work on your part
to narrow this down to libdrm2.  Great job and thanks!