[fglrx] aticonfig crashed with SIGSEGV (aticonfig --initial -f)

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Unfortunately, this crash dump doesn't contain a valid backtrace (probably because aticonfig is a proprietary binary), so this bug report does not have enough information to troubleshoot.

Are you able to get aticonfig --intial ... xorg.conf to reliably crash every time? If so, can you please provide the exact command line string used, a copy of all output printed at the console, your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and your ~/.xsession-errors from after running the command?

Alternately, if aticonfig does not crash reliably every time, can you outline what situations or procedures appear to lead to a crash with it?

Thanks ahead of time!

It seems the only way to avoid the crash is to manually configure xorg.conf.
In most of the cases I experienced, xorg.conf is configured as follows: (I'll report only the lines that should be modified)

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
 Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
 Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
 Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
 Driver "fglrx"
 Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
 Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
 Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
 Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 24
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Im my experience, adding or modifying the appropriate lines manually as above, configures the card and avoids the crash.

I dont' know if some params depend by the card model or not..

Why does Hardy have such strange problems with Ati-Cards? Bulletproof X is nice, cause i can work, but in wrong Resolution and with no 3D-Support (Ati Mobility X1400)

Because is is not finished... If you want a stable product try ubuntu gutsy gibbon.

Does it work if you omit the VideoOverlay and OpenGLOverlay option lines? (If so, then maybe this is just the DefaultDepth 24 bug for -fglrx).

I don't think so, my config does not have them and it crashed for me too.

This also makes it crash:

$ aticonfig --query-monitor
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Undefined Device "(null)" referenced by Screen "Default Screen".
aticonfig: Parsing the configuration file failed.
The above error messages are reported from XFree86 and may assist you in
diagnosing the problem with your configuration input file. Try use -f option
to generate a new configuration file.
$ aticonfig --query-monitor -f
Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        Undefined Device "(null)" referenced by Screen "Default Screen".
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have the default xorg.conf which was generated by installing fglrx.

I'll commit a fix to dexconf. Adding 'Device "foo"' to the Screen-section makes it work. Same applies to nvidia-settings.

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.3+10ubuntu5

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xorg (1:7.3+10ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * dexconf: Bring Device back to the Screen-section, nvidia-settings
    and aticonfig need that. (LP: #181405)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:19 +0200

This problem is still occurring in a fresh install of Hardy with the latest updates.