Segmentation fault

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2012-12-11 at 02:48 -0800, StompDagger1 at yahoo.com wrote: 
> >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?

Can you make a specific suggestion, or even a patch?


> if I had this problem, I'd assume that the driver doesn't supports the
> card, this would have wasted a lot of time.

Why would you assume that? Again, if the driver doesn't support a card,
it bails much earlier, in a totally different way. 

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