[elrepo] Centos 7.4 and fglrx

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/10/2017 04:23 PM, Jeremy Schaeffer wrote:
>  I was having a dependency issue so for quite a while, maybe a year or 
> two my machine was not updating. I finally fixed it and had over 2000 
> updates done, now I have no graphics, no X. The Kernel is 
> 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 and yum installs version 
> fglrx-x11-drv-15.12-3.el7.elrepo.x86_64. Here is the output of Xorg.0.log
>
> [    10.190]
> X.Org X Server 1.19.3
> Release Date: 2017-03-15
> [    10.190] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> [    10.190] Build Operating System:  3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64
> [    10.190] Current Operating System: Linux timothy.schaeffer 
> 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 12 22:26:13 UTC 2017 x86_64
> [    10.190] Kernel command line: 
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 
> root=UUID=ba371f2c-b87d-4161-9b75-034937256ef2 ro crashkernel=auto 
> rd.md.uuid=a3e6200a:e1cbfb29:4361e89f:e2bfa9d2 rhgb quiet 
> rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau rd.driver.blacklist=radeon [...]
> [    10.202] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
> [    10.202] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> [    10.207] (II) Loading 
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx/libglx.so
> [    10.207] (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
> [    10.207]     compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
> [    10.207] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
> [    10.208] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
> [    10.290] (EE) Failed to load 
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: 
> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: 
> xf86Initialising
I am not sure about this one.... I have never seen it before. I hope it 
does not mean that the driver is incompatible with the version of Xorg 
that gets shipped with EL 7.4


> [ 10.290] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
> [    10.290] (II) Unloading fglrx
> [    10.290] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (loader failed, 7)
> [    10.290] (EE) No drivers available.
> [    10.290] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [    10.290] (EE) no screens found(EE)
> [    10.290] (EE)
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>      at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> [    10.290] (EE) Please also check the log file at 
> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
> [    10.290] (EE)
> [    10.291] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
>
>
> I tried to install the newer version of fglrx, but I get this -
>
> [root at timothy ~]# rpm -Uvh kmod-fglrx-15.12-6.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 
> fglrx-x11-drv-15.12-6.el7.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         kernel(get_zone_device_page) = 0x6d849ca0 is needed by 
> kmod-fglrx-15.12-6.el7.elrepo.x86_64
> [...]
> [root at timothy ~]# lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h 
> (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex
> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
> [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7660D]
>
>
> I am at a loss. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, removed and tried to 
> use the builtin radeon driver and I cannot get a display at all. Its a 
> Radeon HD 7660D graphics card. Any suggestions??
I will rebuild the packages against the kernel from 7.4. The kernel ABI 
must have changed when transitioning from EL 7.3 to 7.4

     Manuel