ATI drivers crash on Fedora 7

[Dario Castellarin]

Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq ha scritto:
> I know this is kinda off-topic, but since I used Matthia's package I
> will give a try:
>
> I downloaded and installed ati-x11-drv-8.36.5-2.fc7 from freshrpms, I
> have an ATI video card that isn't supported by the "radeon" driver, so I
> wanted to give "fglrx" a try.
>
> After installing RPM and dependencies and trying to execute "aticonfig
> --initial" I get the following error:
>
> [root at laptophp ~]# aticonfig --initial
> Uninitialised file found, configuring.
> Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-2
> *** glibc detected *** aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer:
> 0xbfb99c7c ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1bb)[0x8196ab]
> aticonfig[0x805bff7]
> aticonfig[0x805c2a5]
> aticonfig[0x8054528]
> aticonfig[0x804985e]
> aticonfig[0x80496cb]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0x7c3f70]
> aticonfig[0x8049601]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> 002f5000-002f6000 r-xp 002f5000 00:00 0          [vdso]
> 0078f000-007aa000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1148614    /lib/ld-2.6.so
> 007aa000-007ab000 r-xp 0001a000 08:03 1148614    /lib/ld-2.6.so
> 007ab000-007ac000 rwxp 0001b000 08:03 1148614    /lib/ld-2.6.so
> 007ae000-008fc000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1148615    /lib/libc-2.6.so
> 008fc000-008fe000 r-xp 0014e000 08:03 1148615    /lib/libc-2.6.so
> 008fe000-008ff000 rwxp 00150000 08:03 1148615    /lib/libc-2.6.so
> 008ff000-00902000 rwxp 008ff000 00:00 0 
> 00904000-0092b000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1148621    /lib/libm-2.6.so
> 0092b000-0092c000 r-xp 00026000 08:03 1148621    /lib/libm-2.6.so
> 0092c000-0092d000 rwxp 00027000 08:03 1148621    /lib/libm-2.6.so
> 0092f000-00932000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 1148616    /lib/libdl-2.6.so
> 00932000-00933000 r-xp 00002000 08:03 1148616    /lib/libdl-2.6.so
> 00933000-00934000 rwxp 00003000 08:03 1148616    /lib/libdl-2.6.so
> 0094b000-0094d000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892256    /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
> 0094d000-0094e000 rwxp 00001000 08:03
> 1892256    /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
> 00950000-00a4e000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892258    /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
> 00a4e000-00a52000 rwxp 000fe000 08:03
> 1892258    /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
> 00a54000-00a59000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892257    /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
> 00a59000-00a5a000 rwxp 00004000 08:03
> 1892257    /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
> 00a76000-00a85000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892263    /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
> 00a85000-00a86000 rwxp 0000e000 08:03
> 1892263    /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
> 00b90000-00b98000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892259    /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
> 00b98000-00b99000 rwxp 00007000 08:03
> 1892259    /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0
> 00ba0000-00ba6000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1892266    /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2.1.0
> 00ba6000-00ba7000 rwxp 00005000 08:03
> 1892266    /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2.1.0
> 00d09000-00d14000 r-xp 00000000 08:03
> 1148626    /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20070503.so.1
> 00d14000-00d15000 rwxp 0000a000 08:03
> 1148626    /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20070503.so.1
> 08048000-08067000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 133077     /usr/bin/aticonfig
> 08067000-0806a000 rw-p 0001e000 08:03 133077     /usr/bin/aticonfig
> 0a03f000-0a060000 rw-p 0a03f000 00:00 0 
> b7f14000-b7f17000 rw-p b7f14000 00:00 0 
> b7f2b000-b7f2c000 rw-p b7f2b000 00:00 0 
> bfb85000-bfb9a000 rw-p bfb85000 00:00 0          [stack]
> Aborted
> [root at laptophp ~]#
>
> ... and my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file disappears.
>
> Editing manually previous mentioned file and changing "vesa" for "fglrx"
> under "Driver" section doesn't help, X doesn't start, it logs
> in /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following error:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
> (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
>         compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.36.5
>         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
> [atiddxSetup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 1.3.0.0, required
> X.org 7.1.0.0
> (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
>
> My videocard is:
>
> [root at laptophp imoq]# lspci | grep -i vga
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon
> Mobility X1600]
> [root at laptophp imoq]# 
>
> Any ideas / help?
>
> On a side (and totally off-topic) note, I even tried to use livna repo
> but they seemed to delete all fglrx files from there :S
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you could give me.
>
> Imoq.
>
>   
The Ati proprietary driver doesn't support the xserver 1.3 yet,so no way 
to make it work in Fedora 7 for now.

Dario