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Hi fglrx package developers,<br>
<br>
I've been unsuccessful at getting fglrx-driver
(1:14.9+ga14.201-2) working on debian jessie for a few days now.
When the driver is installed and loaded in the kernel and I start
gdm3 I get hung pc shwoing a black screen with a white cursor in the
left corner. I cannot login with ssh or get shell with ctrl-alt f1.
Even worse, the hang leaves no logs in systemlog, Xorg.0.log,
kern.log and messages. I've confirmed this by deleting those files
and starting gdm which hangs the system, then rebooting into gdm
which produces the same hang, and finally checking the logs by hard
rebooting into rescue mode. After all this the logs are still not
recreated. <br>
<br>
However, I am pretty sure the driver is being loaded into the
kernel. If I delete the xorg.conf file generated by aticonfig
--initial -f, X doesn't load the right driver but will boot to the
gnome frown face and I can get into a shell though ctlr-alt f1. In
kern.log I see <br>
<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.939018] <6>[fglrx]
Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 6659 MBytes.<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.939080] <6>[fglrx]
vendor: 1002 device: 130f count: 1<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.939461] <6>[fglrx] IOMMU
is enabled, CrossFire are not supported on this platform<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.939463] <6>[fglrx]
Disable IOMMU in BIOS options or kernel boot parameters to support<br>
CF<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.939602] <6>[fglrx]
ioport: bar 4, base 0xf000, size: 0x100<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.940224] <6>[fglrx]
Kernel PAT support is enabled<br>
Dec 26 11:47:10 pcname kernel: [ 4.940248] <6>[fglrx]
module loaded - fglrx 14.20.7 [Sep 2 2014] with 1 minors<br>
<br>
I've uninstalled fglrx and tried installing the latest upstream
version, <a
href="http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86#">AMD
Catalyst Omega 14.12</a>, and got the same hung pc with white
cursor. This makes me think this problem is a upstream issue. I also
noticed the latest version of the install does not support building
packages for Debian.<br>
<br>
Other things tried:<br>
I've tried rebuilding the fglrx-driver from source and got the
same hung pc.<br>
I've tried rebuilding Xorg-server from source so that Xorg is
built with the same kernel headers as the driver got same hung
pc. .<br>
I've tried add 'nomodeset' to the kernel boot options and got
same result. <br>
<br>
System Information:<br>
Chip: AMD A10-7850k Kaveri on Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H (AMD A88X
[Bolton D4] Chipset)<br>
<br>
$uname -r : 3.16.0-4-amd64<br>
<br>
$Xorg -version <br>
X.Org X Server 1.16.2.901 (1.16.3 RC 1)<br>
Release Date: 2014-12-09<br>
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0<br>
Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian<br>
Current Operating System: Linux plazmon 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP
Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) x86_64<br>
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
root=/dev/mapper/plasmon-root ro quiet<br>
Build Date: 25 December 2014 12:57:34AM<br>
xorg-server 2:1.16.2.901-1 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.debian.org/support">http://www.debian.org/support</a>) <br>
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6<br>
<br>
<br>
This bug seems to be different from #765109 since I'm getting a
total hung pc with no logs. Please let me know if I should open this
with a bug report or if there is anything else I should try. <br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
<br>
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