On my laptop (a "hp Pavilion g6 1222sg") with >> lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] >> lspci -n 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0116 (rev 09) 01:00.0 0300: 1002:6760 the ati-drivers-13.1, ati-drivers-13.2_beta7 do a segfault on start of X when running on kernels 3.8.0, 3.8.1 and 3.8.2. They work fine with kernels 3.7.6 and 3.7.10. I can upload the Xorg.0.log files here or You can see them in the Gentoo Bugzilla at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460048 Kind regards, mdb
Created attachment 714 [details] my xorg.conf -- in case one of the options is uncommon...
Created attachment 715 [details] kernel 3.8.0 with ati-drivers-12.11_beta11 and aticonfig --px-dgpu
Created attachment 716 [details] kernel 3.8.1 with ati-drivers-12.11_beta11 and aticonfig --px-dgpu
Created attachment 717 [details] kernel 3.8.2 with ati-drivers-13.1 and aticonfig --px-dgpu
Created attachment 718 [details] kernel 3.8.2 with ati-drivers-13.2_beta7 and aticonfig --px-dgpu
Created attachment 719 [details] kernel 3.8.2 with ati-drivers-13.2_beta7 and aticonfig --px-dgpu, /etc/conf.d/modules emptied and xorg.conf as follows
Created attachment 720 [details] xorg.conf for attachment#719 [details]
Created attachment 721 [details] kernel .config for 3.7.6
Created attachment 722 [details] kernel .config for 3.8.2
Created attachment 723 [details] kernel 3.8.2 with ati-drivers-13.2_beta7 and aticonfig --px-dgpu, /etc/conf.d/modules emptied and xorg.conf as in attachment#720 [details] and amdpcsdb renamed before rebooting
Created attachment 724 [details] /etc/ati/amdpcsdb resulting from attachment#723 [details]
for google and other indexing/searching machines: [ 52.567] (EE) Backtrace: [ 52.567] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x34) [0x5970c4] [ 52.567] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x19aef9) [0x59aef9] [ 52.567] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fc6dc6d3000+0x10410) [0x7fc6dc6e3410] [ 52.567] (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xclIn32+0x0) [0x7fc6d9a15940] [ 52.568] (EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xilReadReg32_R600+0xe) [0x7fc6d9bc23ee] [ 52.568] (EE) 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs113_atiddxPxScreenInit+0xa4) [0x7fc6d9b88694] [ 52.568] (EE) 6: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs113_atiddxScreenInit+0xdb9) [0x7fc6d9b65a69] [ 52.569] (EE) 7: /usr/bin/X (AddScreen+0x8a) [0x43b40a] [ 52.569] (EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (InitOutput+0x3fd) [0x47e21d] [ 52.569] (EE) 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x29a7d) [0x429a7d] [ 52.569] (EE) 10: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fc6db3894bd] [ 52.569] (EE) 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x29fd1) [0x429fd1] [ 52.569] (EE) [ 52.569] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x70180 [ 52.569] Fatal server error: [ 52.569] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
This problem is related to some change in Intel graphics driver for kernel 3.8. And the fix will be available soon.
ati-drivers-13.3_beta2 is running with kernel gentoo-sources-3.8.4 and xf86-video-intel-2.20.13. Thanks!