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

[Heikki Kantola]

According to Patrick Matthäi <patrick at linux-dev.org>:
> > 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.

Unfortunately, aticontrol (with whatever options) and amdcccle both
seem  to give segmentation faults so looks like I cannot use these.
However, with some more web searching, trial and error (including
failing to initially notice that I had unplugged HDMI cable earlier 
after failed attempts), I managed to craft a xorg.conf that works
fine.

> Anyway this is at all not grave..

Ok, I think I can now agree on that, but certainly crashing 
configuration tools have significant impact on the usability of the
driver.

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Heikki "Hezu" Kantola, <Heikki.Kantola at IKI.FI>
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