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tomthorogood

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From: Richmond, VA

Registered: 2012-04-11

Posts: 18

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fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

Hello!

I've been battling this for hours now, and think I could benefit from someone else's input.

Last week, I noticed my graphics drivers starting to act a little wonky (glx gears would freeze everything completely, for instance), so I decided I had nothing to lose by a dist-upgrade, because if it wasn't working before, who gives a damn.

  After doing a dist-upgrade to wheezy, I am unable to get fglrx to work properly. I did a complete purge and reinstall of xserver-xorg*, and then followed the relevant  instructions both here and here to get things back to the standard, non-proprietary state.

I then downloaded the driver from the ati website (Radeon HD 4XXX / linux / 64) and ran the .run file, which installed successfully.

I ran

 $>> aticonfig --initial -f

and rebooted the system, but now i get the blue error screen letting me know that there is something wrong with the xorg.conf.

For starters, there are a lot of messages like "

fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:X:Y) found 

[where X and Y are varying numbers). Then, a backtrace from trying to run X, which traces back through /usr/bin/X, libpthread.so.0, fglrx_drv.so, and back to /usr/bin/X.

I've redone all of this a couple of times, but it's always the same result.

I'm really not sure how to get this working from here. I feel like I've exhausted all my resources.

What's more, when I have a clean install of the standard display drivers (xserver-xorg-video-radeon), I cannot do a straight boot into the session manager. I can only log in by booting into recovery mode and running "gdm" from the command line. Otherwise, the display server just restarts infinitely until eventually I get an error about it. I know that's not fglrx, but still, odd.

Things I have tried (in various orders, multiple times):

• /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

• /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh --force

• apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

• apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg*

• apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg*

• apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-radeon

• dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

• ... and more!

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I've had a rough week and I would really love to actually play some Minecraft. It's been so, so long.

Last edited by tomthorogood (2012-06-09 19:27:10)

el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,749

Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

Which fglrx driver did you install? 12.4, 12.5, 12.6?

tomthorogood

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From: Richmond, VA

Registered: 2012-04-11

Posts: 18

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Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

12.4 is the one that their site recommends for my card/arch.

paxmark1

#! CrunchBanger

From: Winnipeg, MB Canada

Registered: 2009-07-08

Posts: 223

Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

Do you have ia32-libs installed?

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian 

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … linux.aspx

And for me maybe 6 weeks back
12.4 vs. 12.4.1      In 32 bit environment 12.4 did not work for me two different ways.  Installing manually  and using smxi both failed. repeatedly with repeated full purges.  However using aptitude  install (or was it apt-get - I forget) gave me 12.4.1 and that has worked for me.  ymmv as I am 32bit and you are 64, etc. etc. 

In statler last February I believe the "install manually" worked perfectly the first time using the cchtml page.   

peace,  mark

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el_koraco

#!/loony/bun

From: inside Ed

Registered: 2011-07-25

Posts: 4,749

Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

12.4 is the one that their site recommends for my card/arch.

No luck. The version of X in Testing and Sid isn't supported by the April fglrx driver, and AMD will be dropping support after 12.4 for your card. My suggestion, if you wanna keep using fglrx, install Ubuntu LTS, they have 12.4 in the repos, and it's the only place you'll have continued support (until you do what I did and ditch AMD). Otherwise use radeon, which is a suboptimal thing to do.

tomthorogood

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From: Richmond, VA

Registered: 2012-04-11

Posts: 18

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Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

Thanks, el_koraco. Sadly, it's a laptop so I don't really have the option to switching away from AMD, which is sad. I really don't want to go back to using full-on Ubuntu again! Ah, well.

Thanks for the info. It explains a lot---at least I know it wasn't just me.

Rudolph

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From: IE, CA, US, Earth

Registered: 2012-02-23

Posts: 26

Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

I really don't want to go back to using full-on Ubuntu again!

el_koraco hit it on the head. This same thing bit me in the woohoo last month some time and I spent a couple weeks fiddling around trying to avoid ubuntu as well. I failed...

One option is to try this. I played with it and ended up with a lightning fast system, on par with Statler. Good stuff, but I never did get audio to work (probably (likely) my own error).

Since I was developing quite the headache from beating my head against the table I ended up installing xubuntu. Still sticking with XFCE (for now) it's using 3x the RAM that Waldorf did, but it's still 1/8 of what I have, so it's not a big biggie. Being able to use fglrx and quiet the fan down is worth it. One of these days I'll get bored and install openbox and see what happens.

pidsley

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Registered: 2012-05-23

Posts: 1,752

Re: fglrx - Radeon HD 4200 - /usr/bin/X segfault

^ you could try lubuntu and strip out the LXDE fluff (this is how I ended up at #! -- I started on an LXDE distro and gradually removed the LXDE from on top of openbox until I needed a pure openbox distro...)

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