Segmentation fault
StompDagger1@yahoo.com
stompdagger1 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 11 02:48:04 PST 2012
>On Die, 2012-12-11 at 01:45 -0800, StompDagger1 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> >On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:33 -0800, StompDagger1 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, <olivier.e.amann at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >> When starting openSuse 12.2, the X-server terminates with a
>> >> segmentation fault (see attached log file).
>> >>
>> >> >The open source driver should support your card just fine. Can
>> you
>> >> >install debugging symbols and get a proper backtrace with GDB?
>> >> >http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging
>> >>
>> >> Alex, looking at his log, I don't see the card in the support list,
>> >> his card is the v7700?
>>
>> >As you can see in the lspci output, it's a 7500, which is Turks
>> >(Northern Islands generation) based.
>>
>> >If the driver didn't support the card, it would bail much earlier.
>>
>> looking at the xorg log, I see Turks only as part of the AMD Radeon HD
>> 6700 Series, does this means that 7500 Series is part of the 6700
>> Series?
>It's complicated. :\
>7xx0 and 6xx0 are marketing names, which are mostly irrelevant for
>driver support, in contrast to code names such as Turks, Northern
>Islands etc.
I see, so maybe it is a good idea to fix the radeon output? if I had this problem, I'd assume that the driver doesn't supports the card, this would have wasted a lot of time.
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