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From: "Andrey Moshbear" <andrey....@gmail.com>
To: "gentoo-user" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 08:02
Subject: [gentoo-user] Issues with >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4: driver
issue or hardware issue?
Lately, I've been having some issues with segfaults when running
startx and it's been pretty persistent.
Xorg.0.log and emerge --info are available at https://gist.github.com/2766926 .
Kernel config is available at https://gist.github.com/276943 .
I've tried downgrading, but <=x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.2 fails
to compile due to incomplete structs.
Is this more a driver or a hardware issue?
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first thing thing is your usage of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64". with ~amd64
you globally
allow all packages masked for amd64. unless you are a developer/tester for
gentoo you should remove
this keyword, because gentoo usually has good reasons to mask some packages. if
for some reason you
really need a masked package, you can do this easily only for that package.
global unmasking alone might be the reason for half of your troubles.
second, it is advisable to use kernel modesetting, which is obviously not
enabled. gentoo has a detailed
howto for this under http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml. this gives
you all necessary details.
just a quick shot for the moment. your kernel config doesn't under the link you
give, I'd like to see that
too, and maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, if
you have any of these,
regards, nichael
