FS#8960 - [catalyst-8.01] Two Xorg processes started

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Nick Roberts (RobbeR49) - Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 18:51 GMT
Last edited by Travis Willard (Cerebral) - Thursday, 01 May 2008, 17:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Travis Willard (Cerebral)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description: An extra X process is started when X is initialized when using the ATI Catalyst drivers

for example:
$ ps auxc | grep 'X'
root 24661 1.6 15.2 165680 78108 tty7 S<s+ 09:21 6:32 X
root 24666 0.0 15.2 165680 78108 tty7 S<+ 09:21 0:00 X

relevant thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32494

Additional info:
catalyst 7.11-2
xorg7.2
This task depends upon

Closed by  Travis Willard (Cerebral)
Thursday, 01 May 2008, 17:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Upstream issue - reported on other distros too.
Comment by Ramses de Norre (Ramses_de_Norre) - Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 18:59 GMT
I can confirm this behavior, killing the process which isn't doing anything (no cpu usage) results in the process becoming defunct and everything else continues to work.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 23:39 GMT
We can't fix this as this is caused by the non-free closed AMD drivers. Somehow the AMD driver is forking Xorg, which can't be killed somehow. As everything works completely fine with this behavior and this bug being unfixable without AMD fixing it, I don't see this as an archlinux bug.
Comment by Ramses de Norre (Ramses_de_Norre) - Sunday, 27 January 2008, 11:36 GMT
The issue returned in catalyst 8.01-1.
Comment by Travis Willard (Cerebral) - Sunday, 27 January 2008, 15:47 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary (Two Xorg processes started when using Catalyst drivers. → catalyst 8.01-1 -- Two Xorg processes started)
Modified title.
Comment by Carlo Bersani (carlocci) - Thursday, 21 February 2008, 16:04 GMT
You can notify the bug to ATI through this form
http://support.ati.com/ics/survey/survey.asp?deptID=894&surveyID=508&type=web

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