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

[Patrick Matthäi]

severity #522027 important
thanks

> 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...

Hello,

what happens if you do following:

# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
# aticonfig --initial -f

Then start X11 and edit your settings with amdcccle.

Anyway this is at all not grave..