Comment 5 for bug 297799

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...