ati-drivers-9.8 will not load

[NTwoO]

my ati-drivers-9.8 module fails to load with both 2.6.28-r1 or 2.6.30-r6. I can then only log in via ssh. The 9.7 driver loads with 2.6.28-r1.

dmesg output:

[NTwoO]

Problem also encountered here. Seems to be something with the 4GB memory.

[energyman76b]

you could still post stuff like config or complete dmesg or lspci -v
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[NTwoO]

Forshore, but it looks like an ASRock problem. my set-up (with 4GB and AM2 board) is very similar. The error is also the same.

For good measure, my pci bus looks something like this:

The 9.8 is not an absolute must, but always nice with new kernel. This MB/Processor does OK and certainly chews through emerges with a smile. Stability, however has been my yoke, with many problems with the nVidia with stability and still struggling to remain stable when frequency scaling is on. Bios does mention that it will struggle to do freq scaling

[energyman76b]

well, I have an Asrock board.

And 8gb ram
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[NTwoO]

Interesting, and running 9.8, I take it? Which ASRock and ati card do you run?

[energyman76b]

[NTwoO]

Could this be related to the vile VIA chips onboard? The system is reasonably stable with the occasional kernel panic in which a power down is required. A restart is not acceptable, since the network will not return to operational state. The issue also occurs with the open source ATI drivers.

[energyman76b]

yeah, could be via. Their chipsets are really horrible...
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[mattst88]

I presume that you're using an old version of fglrx (9. because you've got an R500 or something that was dropped from the newer drivers.

If this is indeed the case, forget about fglrx. It's not going to work with new kernels, new X.Org, and the you're going to be stuck with unfixable bugs like this.

Switch to the r300g driver.
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[NTwoO]

Oh, I moved to the open source drivers a while ago, but it still persists... For the rest, the open source drivers are yummyyummyyummy!!

[NTwoO]

Alrighty, the Via chipset board is hoofed out and replaced with an ASUS AMD board. Problems gone.