[elrepo-devel] We have fglrx packages and X does not behave. How to proceed ?

[Ilyas Arinov]

Works for me with AMD APU 7850K, thanks for help.

2015-12-23 18:48 GMT+06:00 Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>:

> Hello
>
>     As some of you already know, for sometime I am the maintainer of the
> fglrx (AMD video drivers ) packages.
>     Things look fine on EL6 ( at least I have not heard about any
> complains ) but on EL7 there is a problem which seems to occur more or less
> randomly. I for one was not able to identify the pattern triggering it (
> and to make things worse, I still do not have an actual EL7 system to test
> with my own set of hands and eyes ).  To cut a long story short, despite
> the presence of a file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fglrx.conf which
> contains
>     Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
>     EndSection
> Xorg randomly decides to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> rather than /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so . This leads
> to:
> [    38.173] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
> [    38.173] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> [    38.174] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> which later on leads to a SIG11 given that the fglrx.so hates stock
> libglx.so
>
>     Now, the obvious solution would be the one originally implemented by
> AMD (and disabled in elrepo packages ): renaming the stock libglx.so to
> something else when the package is installed and restoring it at removal
> time. However this leads the system prone to issues if/when
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg is updated given that the file will get recreated.
>
>     Therefore I come to you with this question: beside trying to file a
> bug against RHEL/xorg  and asking for their help in identifying the reason
> why the behaviour of X is erratic, what can I ( emphasize on I ) can do to
> make the users of the fglrx packages on EL7 happier  ? I've never used it
> before in my 9 years of packaging but I wonder if something along
>
>             %triggerin  -- xorg-x11-server-Xorg
>                     mv /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.elrepo
>
> (and the corresponding %triggerun to restore the file ) would be fine for
> this case.
>
>     Thoughts, anyone ?
>
>
>         wolfy
>
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