Ati driver issues when logging into desktop

xserver-xorg-video-ati 1.6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-oubuntu6 is the one installed on Kubuntu that seems to be working fine.

May be the same problem : #421225

Bryce.

I have installed the newer Kubuntu and the ati driver is working with it. However the display is 2/3's of an inch left and a 1/3 of an inch down.

version number is 1.6.29.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0

I'm assuming therefore that this might be due to a usplash/xsplash/metacity... all fighting for the same display, of course I could be horrifically wrong.

Bryce

Just to let you know.

I have run the install command from the initial cd menu (rather than going into live desktop) and now I get the correct res working correctly. I'm going to install from here and see if it is just an issue with accessing the cd with xsplash etc that is causing the issue here.

Okay, so this just gets weirder.

I purge removed xsplash to ensure that wasn't the issue. It isn't.

Session type xterm works flawlessly, as did installing direct from menu rather than live desktop.

Session type gnome dies a horrible flame death of fail.

In xterm I checked the res of the screen and it's correct.

Attached is a short video. The first part is the login to an xterm session. The second attempt is a login to a gnome session. I think the last frame got lopped off when I stopped the camera but effectively it goes back to the login screen.

I'm just trying Xubuntu and it is working flawlessly too.

:(

Alberto, can you please have a look here?

It doesn't happen on Kubuntu, so I suppose compiz is triggering something that makes -ati crash.

If we can't fix the driver easily, we have the fallbck option of blacklisting compiz on those cards, too.

I don't think it helps much, but I started the live system on a computer with an RV630 (which has this problem), and if I do compiz --replace I just get:

Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
Checking for non power of two support: present.
Checking for Composite extension: present.
Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1920x1200) to maximum 3D texture size (4096): Passed.
Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Checking for FBConfig: present.
running under gnome seesion, checking for gnomecompat
/usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
adding missing gnomecompat
/usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
can not add gnomecompat, reseting
/usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
Checking for Xgl: not present.
Starting gtk-window-decorator

and then it crashes. Nothing in Xorg.0.log either :-(

But ~/.xsession-errors has some interesting stuff:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-PdmjHZ/socket
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-PdmjHZ/socket.ssh
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=4566

(gnome-settings-daemon:4580): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed

(gnome-settings-daemon:4580): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
Checking for Xgl: not present.
xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Detected PCI ID for VGA:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
not present.
Trying again with indirect rendering:
Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
Window manager error: Unable to open X display :0.0

It doesn't crash but calls probably exit in r600_dri.so. So some package is
not having correct stuff for r600 3D to work. You might find some info from
gdm.log or where ever the Xserver stderr is going to.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:

> I don't think it helps much, but I started the live system on a computer
> with an RV630 (which has this problem), and if I do compiz --replace I
> just get:
>
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> xset q doesn't reveal the location of the log file. Using fallback
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> Detected PCI ID for VGA:
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: not present.
> Trying again with indirect rendering:
> Checking for texture_from_pixmap: present.
> Checking for non power of two support: present.
> Checking for Composite extension: present.
> Checking screen 1Comparing resolution (1920x1200) to maximum 3D texture
> size (4096): Passed.
> Checking for Software Rasterizer: Not present.
> Checking for nVidia: not present.
> Checking for FBConfig: present.
> running under gnome seesion, checking for gnomecompat
> /usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
> adding missing gnomecompat
> /usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
> can not add gnomecompat, reseting
> /usr/bin/compiz: 446: gconftool: not found
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> Starting gtk-window-decorator
>
> and then it crashes. Nothing in Xorg.0.log either :-(
>
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