fglrx drivers broken under fc7

[Phil Meyer]

Jack Howarth wrote:
>    The fglrx drivers appear to be quite broken for
> fc7 at the moment. The ones in http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/testing/7/x86_64/
>
> kmod-fglrx-8.37.6-1.2.6.21_1.3194.fc7.x86_64.rpm
> xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.37.6-1.lvn7.x86_64.rpm
>
> produce an error...
>
> (II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Information: autobuild-rel-r6-8.37.1.1.2
> .3-driver-lnx-x86-x86_64-346145
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:8:0:1) found
> (--) Chipset Supported AMD Graphics Processor (0x71C2) found
> (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
>         [0] -1  0       0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
>         [1] -1  0       0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
>         [2] -1  0       0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
>         [3] -1  0       0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
>         [4] -1  0       0xd0304000 - 0xd0307fff (0x4000) MX[B]
>         [5] -1  0       0xd0301000 - 0xd03017ff (0x800) MX[B]
>         [6] -1  0       0xd0300000 - 0xd0300fff (0x1000) MX[B]
>         [7] -1  0       0xd0020000 - 0xd003ffff (0x20000) MX[B]
>         [8] -1  0       0xd0000000 - 0xd001ffff (0x20000) MX[B]
>         [9] -1  0       0xd0604400 - 0xd06047ff (0x400) MX[B]
>         [10] -1 0       0xd0604000 - 0xd06043ff (0x400) MX[B]
>         [11] -1 0       0xd0600000 - 0xd0603fff (0x4000) MX[B]
>         [12] -1 0       0xd0210000 - 0xd021ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
>         [13] -1 0       0xd0200000 - 0xd020ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B)
>         [14] -1 0       0xc0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x10000000) MX[B](B)
>         [15] -1 0       0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
>         [16] -1 0       0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
>         [17] -1 0       0x00002020 - 0x0000203f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [18] -1 0       0x00002000 - 0x0000201f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [19] -1 0       0x000018e0 - 0x000018ff (0x20) IX[B]
>         [20] -1 0       0x000018c0 - 0x000018df (0x20) IX[B]
>         [21] -1 0       0x000018a8 - 0x000018ab (0x4) IX[B]
>         [22] -1 0       0x000018b0 - 0x000018b7 (0x8) IX[B]
>         [23] -1 0       0x000018ac - 0x000018af (0x4) IX[B]
>         [24] -1 0       0x000018b8 - 0x000018bf (0x8) IX[B]
>         [25] -1 0       0x00001880 - 0x0000188f (0x10) IX[B]
>         [26] -1 0       0x000001f0 - 0x000001f0 (0x1) IX[B]
>         [27] -1 0       0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[B]
>         [28] -1 0       0x000001f0 - 0x000001f0 (0x1) IX[B]
>         [29] -1 0       0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[B]
>         [30] -1 0       0x00001860 - 0x0000187f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [31] -1 0       0x00001840 - 0x0000185f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [32] -1 0       0x00001820 - 0x0000183f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [33] -1 0       0x00001800 - 0x0000181f (0x20) IX[B]
>         [34] -1 0       0x00003000 - 0x000030ff (0x100) IX[B](B)
>         [35] -1 0       0x00004000 - 0x000040ff (0x100) IX[B]
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x47f5ed]
> 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x2aaaabc1f620]
> 2: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxSave64BitBAR+0x2d) [0x2aa
> aadc4084d]
> 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so(atiddxProbeMain+0x3a7) [0x2aaaa
> dc4be87]
> 4: /usr/bin/Xorg(InitOutput+0x6e7) [0x462f47]
> 5: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x275) [0x433e65]
> 6: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2aaaabc0caa4]
> 7: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x231) [0x433319]
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> The drivers for fc6 had no such problems on the same Radeon X1650 card.
> Unfortunately, like fc6, the radeon drivers in fc7 no nothing about
> this chipset. So I am stuck with vesa drivers until the fglrx ones
> are fixed again. Sigh.
>                Jack
>
>   

The ati drivers still do not work with F7.  They DO work with other 
distros (mostly), but not F7.
8.37 came out today, but ...

see: http://www.phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3085

"More than likely you'll need to wait until 8.38"