FS#11488 - xf86-video-ati 6.9.0-2 freezes my system

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by sakari matikka (sm4tik) - Monday, 15 September 2008, 02:21 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 15 September 2008, 17:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After updating X freezes the whole system and all I could get out of the logs, was:
undefined symbol: radeon_allocate_memory

I tried to recompile the package myself, but the latest PKGBUILD wouldn't work. First I had to add dri2proto to makedepends (assuming it's not a new dependency?) and the git-20080827.patch wouldn't apply cleanly. Also line 32 of the PKGBUILD looks kind of wierd with the quotation mark _before_ DESTDIR.

I did however compile the package regardless of the errors the patch gave me, but still X froze with the same error.

I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 (aka M6)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 15 September 2008, 17:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 15 September 2008, 07:05 GMT
git-20080827.patch applies clean and there's no problem with the quotes I added. The reason why this driver doesn't work is because the patch touches a Makefile.am file which doesn't get regenerated. Please try 6.9.0-3 which is in x86_64 and svn trunk at this moment (I don't have an i686 build yet).

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