Segmentation fault

[StompDagger1@yahoo.com]

>On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, StompDagger1 at yahoo.com <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? if I had this
>> problem, I'd assume that the driver doesn't supports the card, this would
>> have wasted a lot of time.


>Marketing and OEMs come up with so many different names, it's hard to
>keep track.  Best bet it to look at the pci ids, or check wikipedia:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ati_gpu

>Alex

I see, thanks for the explanation.
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