[Pkg-fglrx-devel] fglrx not working with kernel 3.9

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Max Linke wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm having problems getting my Radon HD7770 to work with the 3.9 kernel.
> Every time I try to start X with the fglrx running 3.9 my system
> freezes completely. If I on the other hand boot the 3.2 kernel
> everything works fine and the driver gets loaded. I tried to check the
> logs for anything but no Xorg.0.log is generated and nothing about X or
> fglrx is written in kern.log. I'd appreciate any help in finding out
> what is going wrong. I've attached the xorg.conf file generated by
> aticonfig that I use.

Is the fglrx module getting loaded?  You can check that by booting
using the "single" kernel boot option (which is usually the second
item in the grub menu).  Once booted, do "modprobe fglrx", then check
with "lsmod | grep fglrx".

It may be as simple as lacking the 3.9 linux-headers package.

Best wishes,
Mike