[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#522027: fglrx-driver: cannot configure Radeon HD 4670

[Heikki Kantola]

Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 1:9-3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


As I recently updated my monitors into 24" TFTs I noticed that I also 
should to upgrade graphics card as the earlier ASUS Geforce 8500 Silent 
had only DVI+VGA and I wanted two digital connections, thus I bought
this Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate (RV730XT GPU) card. But I am having
hard time to get the drivers up and running. I managed to compile the
required kernel module for the self-built kernel image fine, but there
the success ended: if I run "aticonfig --initial=dual-head" that program
segmentation faults, in single user mode I got also following details
about the reason for this:
  aticonfig[nnn] general protection ip:b7bdd256 sp:bf9fde58 error:0 in
  libc-2.9.so[b7b6a000+15a000]
  
I have also tried manual editing on xorg.conf and the best result has
been that I get garbled screen, most of the time the result is that
system halts after starting X (screen briefly blinks white and then
black and also keyboard caps and screen lock lights blink). Also tried
kernel upgrade, but as reported also in another bug report compilation
of fglrx module fails on 2.6.29. I noticed also the udev related bug
about the missing device file and followed the hint there, but I still 
get the same errors as earlier and I'm starting to be desperate enough 
that I may soon switch back to the old graphics card...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  fglrx-glx                     1:9-3-1    proprietary libGL for the non-free
ii  laptop-detect                 0.13.7     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  libc6                         2.9-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdrm2                       2.4.5-2    Userspace interface to kernel DRM 
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.3-5  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.3-7    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.3.0-2  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.3+18   the X.Org X server

Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
pn  fglrx-atieventsd      <none>             (no description available)
ii  fglrx-glx             1:9-3-1            proprietary libGL for the non-free
ii  fglrx-kernel-2.6.28.7 1:9-3-1+custom.1.0 ATI binary kernel module for Linux
ii  fglrx-source          1:9-3-1            kernel module source for the non-f

Versions of packages fglrx-driver suggests:
ii  fglrx-control                 1:9-3-1    control panel for the non-free AMD

-- debconf information:
* fglrx-driver/acpi_switch: false