FGLRX problems

28 Mar 2009


      FC10/ KDE-4.2.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop.
The fglrx driver locks up laptop, see lspci, Xorg.0.log, xorg.conf  below.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])                                                                                                                        
        Subsystem: Dell Device 011d                                                                                          
        Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11                             
        Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]                                                                
        I/O ports at c000 [size=256]                                                                                         
        Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]                                                             
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]                                                           
        Capabilities: <access denied>                                                                                        
        Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb
X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 i686 
Current Operating System: Linux tomcat 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 13:21:22 EST 2009 i686
Build Date: 10 March 2009  07:20:48PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.5.3-15.fc10 
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Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 28 10:29:13 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "single head configuration"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Videocard0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0".
    Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "AIGLX" "on"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) FontPath set to:
    catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
    built-ins
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(**) Extension "Composite" is enabled
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
    If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd' or 'mouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Loader magic: 0x81f4400
(II) Module ABI versions:
    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
    X.Org Video Driver: 4.1
    X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
    X.Org Server Extension : 1.1
    X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 1
(--) PCI:*(0@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] rev 1, Mem @ 0xe8000000/0, 0xfcff0000/0, I/O @ 0x0000c000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(II) System resource ranges:
    [0] -1	0	0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[B]
    [1] -1	0	0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
    [2] -1	0	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
    [3] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
    [4] -1	0	0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
    [5] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[B]
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension SELinux
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
(**) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx//libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 8.58.2
    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.58.2
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.582                                
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Feb  3 2009 23:42:26
(II) PCS database file /etc/ati/amdpcsdb not found
(II)   Creating PCS database from initial defaults instead
(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 4.1
(II) AMD ASIC control file status: R2 S1 B324 N324 T323
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
    Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
    Option	    "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
    	Viewport   0 0
    	Depth     24
                Modes   "1024x768"  
    EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
    Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection