Bug#461580: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X doesn't start on ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/M11) NP (AGP)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2009-02-26 at 20:00 +0100, Thomas Hahn wrote:
> > >
> > > Backtrace:
> > > 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c91ce]
> > > 1: [0xb7fdb400]
> > > 2: 
> > > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONDRIGetVersion+0x114) 
> > > [0xb7b7dbb4]
> > > 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7b4ae53]
> > > 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONPreInit+0xf2f) 
> > > [0xb7b4da9f]
> > > 5: /usr/bin/X11/X(InitOutput+0xa0f) [0x80ab3ff]
> > > 6: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x2b1) [0x8074591]
> > > 7: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7d59775]
> > > 8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8073a81]
> > >   
> > 
> > You probably need to load the radeon kernel module. Your board is well
> > supported. It should just work. If it doesn't, please send the relevant
> > dmesg lines.
> > 
> 
> Yep, that works.
> I have added it to /etc/modules.
> Maybe not the best debian way, but easily done.
> 
> Why has this been loaded automatically before and not now?

The X server loads it on demand, but the crash above looks to be around
that very area of the code. One possibility could be a stray libdrm.so.2
lying around on your system getting picked up instead of the one from
the libdrm2 package. If that's not it, it would be interesting to get a
gdb backtrace of the crash.


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