Hello,
I installed the ATI Catalyst 14.20 drivers for linux. It occurs that X.org returns a segmentation fault when starting:
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 14.10.2
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: Module class: X.Org Video Driver
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) Backtrace:
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x42) [0x58df62]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x191d09) [0x591d09]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f5f099f0000+0x11250) [0x7f5f09a01250]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f5f06330000+0x40a7b4) [0x7f5f0673a7b4]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f5f06330000+0x40a34f) [0x7f5f0673a34f]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x6d2d1) [0x46d2d1]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm[1927]: Child process 1948 was already dead.
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86LoadModules+0xaa) [0x47cfea]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0x7e7) [0x47d847]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x3f340) [0x43f340]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 9: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f5f0865cdb5]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) 10: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x2a551) [0x42a551]
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: Fatal server error:
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: at http://wiki.x.org
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: for help.
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE)
Sep 14 12:48:24 sebastian gdm-Xorg-:5[1948]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
full report here: boot.txt
I am on Gentoo, this is the content of my x.org: Plain Text code- 31 lines - codepad
Kernel config: .config
Lspci: lspci.txt
I solved a previous compile error (Plain Text code- 21 lines - codepad) with this patch: kernel module Catalyst does not compile with kernel 3.14 in linux Fedora 20
Any idea what to look for ?
Thanks,
S. Fox