Thanks Jing, much appreciated.<br><br>...John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, jing <<a href="mailto:gargamel.su-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">gargamel.su-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Fruhwirth <<a href="mailto:johnfruh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">johnfruh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I have just re-executed aticonfig as super user with the following poor<br>
> result ending in an abort...<br>
><br>
> johnfruh@eMachine:~$ sudo aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>
> [sudo] password for johnfruh:<br>
><br>
> Uninitialised file found, configuring.<br>
> Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>
> Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-1<br>
><br>
> *** glibc detected *** aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer:<br>
> 0xbfd619d9 ***<br>
<br>
</div>YIKES! Well, sorry but I think that's the end of what I can do to<br>
help. The only two other suggestions I can try to offer are:<br>
<br>
- try rebooting your system in single-user mode with NO X and retry<br>
running the aticonfig. Maybe the utility is trying to maniupulate or<br>
probe memory that is causing interference with X and borking.<br>
<br>
- try blacklisting all ATI and related graphics drivers and reboot.<br>
This way no interfering modules are loaded which may cause probes from<br>
the utility to fail and die. You can find the modules that are loaded<br>
by doing 'lsmod' as superuser. You can find out what the modules are<br>
by using 'modinfo'. Finally, depending on your system, you can<br>
typically blacklist modules by sticking them inside the<br>
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.<br>
<br>
- Finally, without an ATI card, I can't really try it out to compare<br>
results. A google of "aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer"<br>
showed quite a few results so you might want to browse some of them to<br>
see if any apply to your system.<br>
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