problems with "ATI proprietary" R500 driver on xorg server 7.0.1

[Roland Scheidegger]

On 25.09.2009 07:22, Dan Engholm wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have a PC with an ATI FireGL V3400 display adapter.  It has two flat
> panel LCD monitors connected via DVI and I want to set it up with a
> single desktop spanning the two.  After some research, I figured that I
> had to install the ATI proprietary driver to get the Xinerama extension
> for this card so I got it and installed it with no apparent problems. 
> Unfortunately, aticonfig reports that it cannot find suitable hardware
> so I had to configure the server by hand.  I found that it works just
> fine with Clone on and Xinerama off but if I reverse the two, the server
> crashes with this in the log:
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x48e8f1]
> 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x3b2b6302d0]
> 2: X(xf86RandR12CreateScreenResources+0x38e) [0x4b7c0e]
> 3: X [0x4b1d3f]
> 4: X(main+0x2e5) [0x4333b5]
> 5: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3b2b61d994]
> 6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x229) [0x4327f9]
> 
> The driver says this of the adapter:
> (--) R500(0): Chipset: "ATI FireGL V3400" (ChipID = 0x71d2)
> 
> I could not find any driver version information in the log but I just
> downloaded it from AMD on the 15th.  The installer's filename is
> ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run.
> 
> If anybody has any ideas on how to get around this problem, I would
> appreciate hearing them.  Other information is available upon request. 
> Thanks in advance.

if you insist on proprietary driver, r5xx and older are only supported
in the legacy driver (9.3) not the current one.

Roland