ATI Catalyst 8.11 (fglrx 8.552) unknown symbol

[Lowell Alleman]

Binary package hint: fglrx-kernel-source

I ran into an this issues after running ATI's driver installer (8-11) on Ubuntu 8.04. After rebooting the system, X loads in a recovery mode which seems to be due to the fact that the "fglrx" kernel module will not load. If I try to load the module manually, I get the following error message:

   FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

I'm guessing this has something to do with the dkms build process. I found a dkms build log called "make.sh.log" (attached) which seems to indicate some kind of linking problem...?

FYI. I had tried using ATI 8-10 release on Ubuntu 8.04, but ran into a similar problem (but I just went back to the previous working driver rather than trying to track down the issue.)

I am not very familiar with dkms or how to fix broken kernel modules, but I do have some "C" and several years of Linux experience, but I'm not sure where to go next with this one. Any other ideas on what I can do to track down this issue would be appreciated.

Ubuntu 8.04.1
Linux 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:43:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

fglrx-kernel-source 2:8.552-0ubuntu1

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0550
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
                Status: RQ=80 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
                Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Here is the dmesg output:

[ 9468.172077] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_DEBUG_OsDump
[ 9468.172203] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_CopyInfo
[ 9468.172325] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_Available
[ 9468.172435] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_MEM_Map
[ 9468.172550] fglrx: Unknown symbol fglrx_get_acpi_handles
[ 9468.172665] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strlen
[ 9468.172775] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_ReadConfigByte
[ 9468.172959] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_WAIT_RemoveObject
[ 9468.173136] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strncmp
[ 9468.173331] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_WriteConfigByte
[ 9468.173491] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_WriteConfigDword
[ 9468.173623] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_PORT_ReadByte
[ 9468.173783] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_RemoveHandler
[ 9468.174094] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_GetIRQ
[ 9468.174248] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_GetSlot
[ 9468.174358] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FILE_SetPrivateData
[ 9468.174475] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_PORT_ReadDword
[ 9468.174585] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_DisableDevice
[ 9468.174733] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Snprintf
[ 9468.174856] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strncpy
[ 9468.174988] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_DEBUG_RegKbdDumpHandler
[ 9468.175100] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_ExecHandler
[ 9468.175334] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_MEM_Unmap
[ 9468.175453] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_BAR_GetType
[ 9468.175590] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_UpdateNotifyHandler
[ 9468.175743] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_EnableBusMastering
[ 9468.175853] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_BAR_GetBase
[ 9468.176004] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_ReadConfigDword
[ 9468.176188] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FILE_OpenedExclusively
[ 9468.176361] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_ReadCapsRegisters
[ 9468.176473] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_WAIT_Remove
[ 9468.176660] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Memcpy
[ 9468.176770] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_UnbindMemory
[ 9468.176901] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_ReadConfigWord
[ 9468.177013] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_WriteConfigWord
[ 9468.177155] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_FreeMemory
[ 9468.177265] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_GetDevices
[ 9468.177377] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Memset
[ 9468.177493] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FILE_OpenedForReadWrite
[ 9468.177608] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_CheckBDF
[ 9468.177766] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_AllocateMemory
[ 9468.177931] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FILE_GetPrivateData
[ 9468.178056] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_InstallHandler
[ 9468.178176] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_DEBUG_Print
[ 9468.178326] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_GetNotifyHandler
[ 9468.178437] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_Disabled
[ 9468.178547] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_WAIT_CreateObject
[ 9468.178657] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_GetDevHandle
[ 9468.178780] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Memcmp
[ 9468.178896] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strcpy
[ 9468.179035] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FASYNC_Terminate
[ 9468.179149] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_DEBUG_RegKbdHandler
[ 9468.179268] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_EvalObject
[ 9468.179379] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_EnableDevice
[ 9468.179560] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_Acquire
[ 9468.179757] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_BAR_GetSize
[ 9468.179872] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FILE_PollWait
[ 9468.180001] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_GetFunc
[ 9468.180111] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_Release
[ 9468.180221] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strnicmp
[ 9468.180331] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_IsInUse
[ 9468.180460] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_PORT_WriteByte
[ 9468.180570] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_BindMemory
[ 9468.180696] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_WAIT_Wakeup
[ 9468.180819] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_FASYNC_SetupAsyncQueue
[ 9468.180930] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_EnableBars
[ 9468.181074] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Memmove
[ 9468.181185] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_GetBusNumber
[ 9468.181312] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_WAIT_Add
[ 9468.181426] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strchr
[ 9468.181569] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Sprintf
[ 9468.181751] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_Uninit
[ 9468.181861] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_STR_Strcmp
[ 9468.182052] fglrx: Unknown symbol fglrx_ac_notify
[ 9468.182162] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_UpdateNotifyContext
[ 9468.182311] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_ACPI_GetNotifyContext
[ 9468.182421] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_Enable
[ 9468.182579] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_IO_PORT_WriteDword
[ 9468.182695] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_PCI_GetDevHandle
[ 9468.182857] fglrx: Unknown symbol KCL_AGP_GetMemoryPageCount

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Unfortunately the packaging scripts that shipped with 8-11 are out of sync. The scripts in phorogit are up to date.

You can try to grab the jaunty binaries instead (they likely will run on earlier releases too).

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

Same issue here. I've reported this to ATI: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357

And cross-posted to the Ubuntu Forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6177741

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Please use 8-11 from intrepid-proposed if you want to use 8-11.

[Lowell Alleman (lowell-alleman)]

I have tried pulling the latest distro-specific packing but it doesn't seem to work their either. I followed the process outlined on Phoronix (which I adapted to work with the 8-11 release) with little success. See http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=976&num=2

Mario, when you said that the scripts on phorogit are up to date, I assume this is what you were talking about, is that correct?

I was able to get the fglrx kernel module to build by playing around with various versions in some of the scripts, but I was never able to get the module to actually load successfully. (I think I also saw the same thing when I ran the installer with "--install" rather than using the "--buildpkg Ubuntu/8.04" option.) The new error I ran into has something to do with memory allocation or drm, but I'm not sure. Here are the kernel messages:

    fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
    [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1171 MBytes.
    [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
    [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
    [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed

I found a post related to this as well, http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=51644 . One of the suggestions was making sure to fully remove and reinstall the packages, which did not appear to resolve my issue. Also, running "aticonfig --initial -f" was suggested, but I kept ending up with a segfault.

    aticonfig[21764]: segfault at 0000000c eip 08053d0d esp bfa31250 error 6

I thought the "fglrx" kernel module was technically optional? I realize that most of the cool stuff would be disabled, but It should still at least provide a working X environment, right? I'm assuming that trying to mix and match kernel modules and X drivers would be a bad idea...

[Lowell Alleman (lowell-alleman)]

I grabbed the fglrx-kernel-source package (from here http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19639400/fglrx-kernel-source_8.552-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb, I think that's the right file. Please confirm.). The module now builds without error (per the make.sh.log file in /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.552/build), however when I actually try to load the module I get same error that I posted earlier:

[ 3500.893337] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1171 MBytes.
[ 3500.893811] [fglrx:drm_alloc] *ERROR* [driver] Allocating 0 bytes
[ 3500.893818] [fglrx:firegl_init_device_list] *ERROR* Out of memory when allocating device heads
[ 3500.893822] [fglrx:firegl_init_module] *ERROR* firegl_init_devices failed

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

I guess the point is that the FGLRX installer from ATI should work. That it doesn't (including Fedora) indicates that this is an ATI packaging issue.

- CH

[Cruxic (cruxic)]

8.552 is working for me on intrepid. As suggested I installed the packages provided by intrepid-proposed (checkbox in Synaptic->Repositories->Updates)

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Do you have r3XX hardware? If so, please comment on the SRu bug.

On 11/14/2008, Cruxic <email address hidden> wrote:
> 8.552 is working for me on intrepid. As suggested I installed the
> packages provided by intrepid-proposed (checkbox in
> Synaptic->Repositories->Updates)
>
> --
> ATI Catalyst 8.11 (fglrx 8.552) unknown symbol
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297799
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to fglrx-
> installer in ubuntu.
>

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[Patrick Balleux (patrickballeux)]

I upgraded to 8.11 via Synaptic on intrepid this morning but Xorg started in low res mode.

I fixed my setup by reverting xorg-driver-fglrx to the previous version (only that package) and everything seems to work again...

Here is the output of dmesg

Nov 15 11:17:24 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947579] [fglrx] GART Table is not in FRAME_BUFFER range
Nov 15 11:17:24 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947609] KBD BUG in ../../../../../../../../drivers/2d/lnx/fgl/drm/kernel/mc_heap_manager.c at line: 947!
Nov 15 11:17:24 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947641] CPU 1
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947644] Modules linked in: af_packet binfmt_misc rfkill_input rfcomm sco bridge stp bnep l2cap ipv6 vboxdrv ppdev powernow_k8 cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats freq_table cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace sbs container sbshc pci_slot vloopback visor usbserial sbp2 parport_pc lp parport joydev arc4 ecb crypto_blkcipher dcdbas b43 uvcvideo rfkill compat_ioctl32 videodev mac80211 serio_raw pcspkr v4l1_compat psmouse evdev snd_hda_intel cfg80211 led_class snd_pcm_oss input_polldev snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm btusb snd_seq_dummy bluetooth snd_seq_oss wl(P) ieee80211_crypt fglrx(P) video snd_seq_midi output snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq sdhci_pci sdhci snd_timer snd_seq_device mmc_core snd wmi soundcore button ac k8temp battery shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_piix4 snd_page_alloc i2c_core ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom pata_acpi sd_mod crc_t10dif pata_atiixp sg ohci1394 ieee1394 b44 mii ehci_hcd ohci_hcd ata_generic ahci usbcore libata scsi_mod dock ssb thermal proce
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: sor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947728] Pid: 6608, comm: Xorg Tainted: P 2.6.27-8-generic #1
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947730] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa02c2fd0>] [<ffffffffa02c2fd0>] mc_heap_add_inv_fb_heap+0x180/0x190 [fglrx]
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947810] RSP: 0018:ffff88007452dc38 EFLAGS: 00200292
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947812] RAX: 0000000000000073 RBX: ffff880069c6a000 RCX: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947814] RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 0000000000200046 RDI: 0000000000200246
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947817] RBP: ffff880069c6a390 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000006
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947819] R10: ffff88007452d7d8 R11: ffff8800f452d8e7 R12: ffff880069c6a360
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947821] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000001d86
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947824] FS: 00007f2914a246e0(0000) GS:ffff880077802880(0000) knlGS:00000000f7dae8c0
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947827] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947829] CR2: 00007f2910d695e0 CR3: 000000006b52d000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947831] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 15 11:17:25 mult-pballeux kernel: [ 48.947834] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 000...