[elrepo] fglrx problem

[Phil Perry]

On 28/03/14 20:46, Stephen Isard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a radeon hd 6450 video card, with which I have been using the
> proprietary amd catalyst X driver under Scientific Linux 6.5.  I tried
> to switch to the elrepo fglrx-x11-drv by:
>
> shut down X
> sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh
> yum install fglrx-x11-drv kmod-fglrx
> reboot
>
> X then started up apparently normally, but when I tried to start
> firefox, X crashed, with the log file reporting:
>
> [   264.447] (EE)
> [   264.447] (EE) Backtrace:
> [   264.451] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x46d196]
> [   264.452] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x72f99) [0x472f99]
> [   264.452] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x36d3e00000+0xf710)
> [0x36d3e0f710]
> [   264.452] (EE) 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x36d3a00000+0x3a7a4) [0x36d3a3a7a4]
> [   264.452] (EE) 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so
> (0x7fb12
> e047000+0x448e2) [0x7fb12e08b8e2]
> [   264.452] (EE) 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so
> (0x7fb12
> e047000+0x1f5d7) [0x7fb12e0665d7]
> [   264.452] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x37ee1) [0x437ee1]
> [   264.452] (EE) 7: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x7d08a) [0x47d08a]
> [   264.453] (EE) 8: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd)
> [0x36d3a1ed1d]
> [   264.453] (EE) 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26189) [0x426189]
> [   264.453] (EE)
> [   264.453] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
>
> Can someone more knowledgeable than I am spot a mistake in what I've
> done, or should I take this to the bugzilla?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Isard

Hi Stephen,

Just a quick stab in the dark, but do you have the xorg-x11-glamor 
package installed? If so, please try uninstalling it (and probably 
rebooting) and see if that helps.

Phil