Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting [SOLVED]

2016-12-19 Thread Andreas Benzler 
Hey Mark,

never got this hard problems.

But:

Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM

OEM Cards sometimes needs a hack to be running on offical fglrx driver.
Did it in the past on some HP rebranded ATI cards.

can you send lspcik, mine looks like
-

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Tahiti XTL [Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II
TOP]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f7e0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at 000c [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010

Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [270] #19
Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS)
Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI)
Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
---

You machine from a oem reseller ???.

Sincerely 

Andy


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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting [SOLVED]

2016-12-19 Thread m . roth 
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Still trying to get it running. Updated CentOS 7, ATI video card, trying
> to use the radeon driver, and, using the previous kernel, X appears to
> come up, but gdm fails; with the 514 kernel, X fails to start.
>
> And here's a twist: I just rebooted, with radeon.modeset=1 on the kernel
> line... and for no reason I know of, I get *six* logs, Xorg.[0-5].log.
> Does this suggest anything to anyone? I can't imagine it's trying to start
> X six times
>
Never mind folks. You'll love this: I figured I'd try the proprietary
drivers. I d/l that, rsync it onto his machine, init 3, start to install -
it's an actual rpm, and it complains it conflicts with the kmod-fglrx. So,
I uninstall that. I clean up /etc/X11 to pristine, and then - I was on the
previous kernel, the one that cured mad COW, because X at least tried to
come up with that  - decide to reboot to the current, 514 kernel, and run
the install against that.

So I reboot (from my desk, having done all that remotely, and a couple
minutes later, over my cube wall, I hear, "shall I just log in?"

With kmod-fglrx, it had come up, without the proprietary drives, both
monitors active, all is wonderful.

RRRGHGHGHGGHGH!!!

Season's greetings to all, and *please*, may the next year be better than
the old.

   mark

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[CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X, still fighting

2016-12-19 Thread m . roth 
Still trying to get it running. Updated CentOS 7, ATI video card, trying
to use the radeon driver, and, using the previous kernel, X appears to
come up, but gdm fails; with the 514 kernel, X fails to start.

And here's a twist: I just rebooted, with radeon.modeset=1 on the kernel
line... and for no reason I know of, I get *six* logs, Xorg.[0-5].log.
Does this suggest anything to anyone? I can't imagine it's trying to start
X six times

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Andreas Benzler 
Mark,

as a side node

take a look into /usr/lib/modprobe.d/

fglrx take a blacklist for the radeon driver in the past

sincerely

Andy

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Andreas Benzler 
Hallo mark,

I have compiled nvidia, intel and radeon (amdgpu) into
my system. 

You can take a look at it:


http://centos.cms4all.org/repo/7/drivers/

I run my machine with the current stable kernel 4.8.15


http://centos.cms4all.org/repo/7/kernel/

For some tests i run winehq and other applications so far.

with my mesa built 13.0.2  + LLVM 3.9.0.

http://centos.cms4all.org/repo/7/mesa/

Tested in the past with radeon 6870 and today r9 280x.

Sincerely

Andy

They not signed - private work(around) -, but the sources are there :-)



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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth 
Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:08:52AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it
>> there when I built the box a few months ago.)
>
> This makes me think it has the 3rd-party fglrx drivers installed, but
> the new kernel you rebooted into didn't, and the GL stuff is broken.

I'm the one who built the box from our repo, with out ks. I just
doublechecked, and there's no package or tarball, which I would
absolutly

Just had a second thought, based on what you said... and looked. And found
I had installed kmod-fglrx from elrepo, last packaged/built in March.

I would have *thought* that it would complain, or, for that matter, take a
lot longer to rebuild the driver Maybe I need to go looking for a way
to force it to rebuild.

  mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Jonathan Billings 
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:08:52AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it there
> when I built the box a few months ago.)

This makes me think it has the 3rd-party fglrx drivers installed, but
the new kernel you rebooted into didn't, and the GL stuff is broken.

Gnome3 requires a working GL X server, even if it's Mesa.  IIRC the
fglrx RPMs moved the Mesa drivers aside or something questionable.
I'd make sure you don't have a half-installed fglrx setup, and if not,
make sure that the Mesa packages are OK.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth 
Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me
>> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get a single screen
>> working, though it's mirrored, of course, in text mode.
>
> Anything in /var/log/audit/audit.log? That would be my first guess if
> you can't find anything obvious elsewhere.

No joy, and selinux is in permissive mode on his workstation, anyway.

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth 
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> On Fri, December 16, 2016 10:08 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application
>> menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to
>> firefox, and googled about refreshing that... and found something that
>> told him to reboot.
>>
>> And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no,
>> something failed, please log out and try again".
>>
>> Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340
>> OEM], and, like most of us, he uses two monitors.
>> .
>> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it
>> there when I built the box a few months ago.)
>
> What if you boot into runlevel 3 (that is no gdm or kdm...), log in into
> virtual console, rename all X related stuff in /etc, and from command line
> execute
>
> startx
>
> ? What do you get spit on console, and what do you get in xorg log?

So far, I've force fsck (and I DESPISE systemd, oh, no, we *can't* let you
use /forcefsck, we'll ignore it, you need to change the grub2 command
line), brought it up in runlevel 3, and no difference - startx gives
me the idiot screen, and hitting exit gives me a live screen - monitor's
not in power save, but black, blank, and it won't accept keyboard input.
And I can't make it let go without a reboot (at least doing what I've been
trying).

Yum doesn't seem to have a group-reinstall - I was going to try to
reinstall GNOME desktop.

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander 
Hello Mark,

On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling
> xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get a single screen
> working, though it's mirrored, of course, in text mode.

Anything in /var/log/audit/audit.log? That would be my first guess if
you can't find anything obvious elsewhere.

# restorecon -r -v /
(or use a more specific path)

or

# touch /.autorelabel
and a reboot

to fix labels.

Regards,
Leonard.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev 

On Fri, December 16, 2016 10:08 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application
> menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox,
> and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to
> reboot.
>
> And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no,
> something failed, please log out and try again".
>
> Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM],
> and, like most of us, he uses two monitors.
> .
> I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it there
> when I built the box a few months ago.)

What if you boot into runlevel 3 (that is no gdm or kdm...), log in into
virtual console, rename all X related stuff in /etc, and from command line
execute

startx

? What do you get spit on console, and what do you get in xorg log?

Incidentally, do you have security system that watches file changes? That
may tell you a lot. As an alternative, you may take a look at differential
backup - whatever was newly backed up may tell you a story. Unless backup
uses timestamps, and timestamps were fiddled with when change happened.


Valeri

>
> I don't see anything even vaguely useful in the Xorg logs... and, for that
> reason, not sure why I'm on Xorg.3.log, other than it may have been
> created by startx. I've tried that, both as root, and as myself, get that
> "oh, no" screen, and when I hit enter to log out, I get a live but black
> screen, completely unresponsive.
>
> I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling
> xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get a single screen
> working, though it's mirrored, of course, in text mode.
>
>   mark
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247

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[CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread m . roth 
A user running gnome came in this morning, clicked on the application
menu... and it was much shorter than he expected. He could get to firefox,
and googled about refreshing that... and found something that told him to
reboot.

And that's it: I cannot get X up, at all. I just get the "oh, no,
something failed, please log out and try again".

Fully updated CentOS 7, [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM],
and, like most of us, he uses two monitors.
.
I've tried removing the xorg.conf, and renaming
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf, which was there (I didn't put it there
when I built the box a few months ago.)

I don't see anything even vaguely useful in the Xorg logs... and, for that
reason, not sure why I'm on Xorg.3.log, other than it may have been
created by startx. I've tried that, both as root, and as myself, get that
"oh, no" screen, and when I hit enter to log out, I get a live but black
screen, completely unresponsive.

I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling
xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me
xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64.

Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get a single screen
working, though it's mirrored, of course, in text mode.

  mark

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