Comment 100 for bug 284408

Same issue here, some output:

$ uname -r
2.6.27-11-generic

$ aticonfig --initial
Segmentation fault

$ lspci | grep "ATI"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]

$ fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
  Serial number of failed request: 10
  Current serial number in output stream: 10

$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.55.2
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: UNSUPPORTED-8.552
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Oct 28 2008 21:22:33
(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 4.1
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(EE) No devices detected.

$ sudo modprobe fglrx
FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.27-11-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory

$ tail /var/log/messages
Jan 2 16:23:54 phollaio kernel: [ 221.805593] aticonfig[8411]: segfault at c ip 08053d0d sp bfafc7e0 error 6 in aticonfig[8048000+35000]