Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

ati driver blocks the system

Bug #181485 reported by jtlb on 2008-01-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #133192: Blank screen or distorted image because of wrong default AGPMode value. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

hello,
i recently tried to upgrade to hardy to do some test. The X server started as usual and suddenly froze! The xorg.0.log reported the load of the ati driver what is normal since I have an ati :01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M.
I then tried to force the video driver to vesa and it worked perfectly. None of the automated tools were able to recover this error nor the "failsafe" Xserver, nor dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I also noticed that we are no more able to select the driver manualy in this tool, I think it is not a good idea.

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jtlb (jt-lb) wrote on 2008-01-09:

the working configuration's log Edit (56.8 KiB, text/plain)

here are my two logs

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jtlb (jt-lb) wrote on 2008-01-09:

the buggy configuration's log Edit (37.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-01-09:

Hi,

I confirm this behaviour in Kubuntu Hardy Heron (pre-release) on my PC. After upgrading my pc using aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday, my PC totally freezes/locks up when starting Xorg using the ati or radeon open source drivers. It directly crashes once the Xorg window appears and BEFORE seeing the kdm login window. However, when using the fglrx driver, I can still successfully start up the Xorg server and log into kdm just fine. I use an ATI Radeon 9500 AGP video card. My xorg.conf file has not changed these past few months, but since yesterday, X crashes....

New bug in Xorg? Or in ati or radeon driver?

Regards,

Mark Rijckenberg

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-01-09:

See related Bug #180343, first reported on 2008-01-04 by Daniel du Preez
"ATI driver update causes Display Corruption"

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-01-09:

Please try the package from http://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-01-09:

Hi,

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge did not help for me.
See my answers on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/180343

Regards,

Mark

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) wrote on 2008-01-09:

Created separate bug report: Bug #181602, first reported 0 seconds ago by Mark Rijckenberg
ATI driver update causes Display Corruption on ATI Radeon 9500 AGP

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/181602