You're supposed to start DiabloMiner in a terminal. It is not a GUI app.
I did start it from a terminal.
Please post the entire error, then.
I can't - the terminal displays two messages, which look normal, then disappears along with my login session. :-(
I just checked the syslog, and there are no errors logged, but I did notice on login I get some warnings:
Apr 24 18:43:08 griphook AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
Apr 24 18:43:31 griphook acpid: client 9131[0:0] has disconnected
Apr 24 18:43:31 griphook acpid: client connected from 10969[0:0]
Apr 24 18:43:31 griphook acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Apr 24 18:43:32 griphook gnome-session[10994]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Apr 24 18:43:32 griphook gnome-session[10994]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Apr 24 18:43:32 griphook gnome-session[10994]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Apr 24 18:43:32 griphook gdm-simple-greeter[11010]: Gtk-WARNING: /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5628: widget not within a GtkWindow
/var/log/Xorg.0.log has some interesting, and possibly useful info:
(EE) fglrx(1): Multiview is only supported with acceleration; this screen will now shutdown.
(EE) fglrx(1): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(1): === [xdl_x750_atiddxPreInit] === end
(EE) fglrx(0): Failed shutdown interrupts. Error -9
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed *
(WW) fglrx(0): * kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompatible *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D and 3D acceleration disabled *
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
(II) Module amdxmm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 2.0.0
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to open CMMQS connection.(EE) fglrx(0):
(EE) fglrx(0): XMM failed to initialize
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(EE) fglrx(0): ACPI: DRM connection failed
(WW) fglrx(0): Hasn't establisted DRM connection
(II) fglrx(0): [FB] MC range(MCFBBase = 0xf00000000, MCFBSize = 0x40000000)
(WW) fglrx(0): No DRM connection for driver fglrx.
and this one:
(II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0 136.75 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 903 909 942 -hsync +vsync (70.6 kHz)
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4acd58]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61a09) [0x461a09]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f7c7c125000+0xef60) [0x7f7c7c133f60]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (xdl_x750_swlDriOpenConnection+0x25) [0x7f7c784a28d5]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f7c780bb000+0x3d7150) [0x7f7c78492150]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f7c780bb000+0x3d3d82) [0x7f7c7848ed82]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x48c84) [0x448c84]
7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x25c35) [0x425c35]
8: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f7c7ac29c4d]
9: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x257e9) [0x4257e9]
Segmentation fault at address 0x8
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
Any other logs I should look at?