[elrepo] Centos 7.3 7.4 fglrx - X fails to start

[Anastasia Belyaeva]

Thanks a lot for your response (even though this is the exact kind of
answer I was afraid to get.) And wasn't lucky enough to use the new
driver either.
I guess I'm stuck with Centos7.2 then...

Thanks anyway!



2017-12-04 11:06 GMT+03:00 Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>:

> On 12/04/2017 09:45 AM, Anastasia Belyaeva wrote:
>
> Hi,
> can't get X to start.
>
>
> [ 27234.955] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
> [ 27234.955] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> [ 27234.969] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so:
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
> xf86Initialising
> [ 27234.969] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> [ 27234.969] (II) Unloading fglrx
> [ 27234.969] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
> [ 27234.969] (EE) No drivers available.
> [ 27234.969] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [ 27234.969] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [ 27234.969] (EE)
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>          at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> [ 27234.969] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
> for additional information.
> [ 27234.969] (EE)
> [ 27234.969] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
>
> So far I've tried Centos 7.3 with 15.12-5 and 15.12-7 (from
> http://wdl.lug.ro/fglrx/) and Centos 7.4 with 15.12-7 - same result.
> Those were all fresh systems (virtual machines hosted on XenServer 7.1)
> GPU
>
> [root at centos7u4-sandbox ~]# lspci |grep -i vga
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 1234:1111
> 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
> Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
>
>
> Any ideas, advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Seriously.
> Kinda desperate here
>
> Hello
>
>
>     Sorry to break bad news early in the week but unfortunately there is
> no way to use fglrx with the new CentOS release, the drivers supplied by
> ATI are not compatible with the version of Xorg included in the
> distribution. Somewhere in the X logs there should be a line mentioning
> this.
>     IF you are lucky ( i.e. depending on your chipset ) you might be able
> to use the new drivers provided by ATI . See
> https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-
> Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx ( make sure you read their docs prior
> to attempting anything ).
>
>         Manuel
>
>     Manuel
>



-- 
Best regards,
Anastasia Belyaeva

С уважением,
Анастасия Беляева
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