Re: Problems with fglrx driver and kernel 2.6

[Roberto Sanchez]

[Reposting to list, as this was an off-list reply I received]

M Taylor wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] is NOT the correct place for such a request.
Espcially asking for support for a binary-only vendor driver.

However, the problem is almost certainly *not* in the vendor driver, it
is in XFree86.

I suspect you should look for an ATI updated binary driver that
supports the 2.6.x kernel.

I am already using the updated driver that supports 2.6.x kernel.

One random hint is to try commenting out BusID line in your Device

My current BusID line has PCI:2:0:0. If I comment it out I get:

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:0) found

section. Other than that, read the ATI documents (i.e. README) and check any help forums they provide.

Nothing there.

Basically, I think there is some kind of bug here.  From my original
post:

> The driver (version 3.7.0, released on 12-29-2003) builds fine against
> the 2.6 kernel, but when X starts I receive this error:
>
> (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1) found
>
> The Xserver promptly crashes after that message.
>
> The strange part is that under 2.6.0, this error is fatal and causes
> the X server to fail to start. Under 2.4.23, the error message
> appears in the XFree68.log, but it is not fatal.

I have also recently upgraded to 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 and 2.4.24-pre3 with no
changes in the observed behavior.  I have also installed X4.4RC2
and still see the same behavior.

I would really like to solve this, as I think that if this is really a
bug it is worth fixing.  I am a pretty decent C/C++ programmer, but have
never messed with the XFree86 source tree.  If someone would care to
give me some pointers as to where to start (i.e., get source tree and
compile/install with debugging symbols and <fill in here> to see where
the problem originates) I would be more than glad to help.

-Roberto Sanchez

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