System crashes after installing the fglrx package

[rcseixas]

I installed Linux Mint 14 64 bits and everything went perfectly. The problem occurs after installing fglrx package, both the repositories of Linux Mint (Ubuntu) as the site of ATI. After installing the fglrx package, and system reboot, Linux Mint can not display the graphical user interface and presents only the character interface.

My computer is a notebook Samsung Chronos 7, intel Core i5 CPU and ATI Radeon HD 6600M.

This problem does not happen in Linux Mint 13.

Procedures used for package installation :

1) Packages from Linux Mint
 - sudo apt-get update
 - sudo apt-get install fglrx
 - sudo aticonfig --initial -f

2) Packages from ATI's website (I tried the beta driver also)
 - Download drivers from : http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
 - unzip amd-driver-installer-*
 - sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-*.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/quantal
 - sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
 - sudo aticonfig --initial -f

Here the contents of xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) file that was generated by the installation package fglrx :

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
 Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
 Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
 Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Driver "fglrx"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
 Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 24
 EndSubSection
EndSection

[Garrett Gaston (garrett85)]

I had the same problem. From what I'v read the Legacy drivers are not compatible with the xorg graphics server in Mint 15 and there isn't anything that can be down about it at this time. I hate that becasue now I can't play Counter-Strike source on my Desktop.

[Andrey (holiday-q-deactivatedaccount)]

The same problem for LMDE Update Pack 7 (both with built-in fglrx driver and proprietary driver downloaded from official web site)

[ 27.765] (EE) fglrx(0): Failed to open CMMQS connection.
[ 27.765]
[ 27.765] Backtrace:
[ 27.796] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x7f406b1a8d06]
[ 27.796] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x7f406b02a000+0x182859) [0x7f406b1ac859]
[ 27.796] 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f406a34f000+0xf210) [0x7f406a35e210]
[ 27.797] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (swlDrmFreeSurfaces+0x42) [0x7f406655adf2]
[ 27.797] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs112_atiddxDriCloseScreen+0x14d) [0x7f40664b3d3d]
[ 27.797] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs112_atiddxDriScreenInit+0x8eb) [0x7f40664b33db]
[ 27.798] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_xs112_atiddxScreenInit+0xe9a) [0x7f40664accea]
[ 27.798] 7: /usr/bin/X (AddScreen+0x189) [0x7f406b07d1f9]
[ 27.798] 8: /usr/bin/X (InitOutput+0x28e) [0x7f406b0bb3fe]
[ 27.798] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x7f406b02a000+0x41d26) [0x7f406b06bd26]
[ 27.798] 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f4068fb8995]
[ 27.798] 11: /usr/bin/X (0x7f406b02a000+0x4219d) [0x7f406b06c19d]
[ 27.798]
[ 27.798] Segmentation fault at address 0x8a0