XServer doesn't start

Bug #38157 reported by carsten
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xorg (Ubuntu)
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Using the flight6 or flight5 live cd the XServer doesn't work. Same for the Knoppix 5.0 live-DVD. I only see very strange flickering. I did a photo with my digikam is you are interested in it. I hope the following info helps. In Knoppix, with failsafe-mode, I made the XServer work. I will attach the xorg.conf which worked a comment to this bugreport.

The PC is a Toshiba Satellite a100-533-Notebook.

The numeric ID of the vga controler is

0000:01:05.0 0300: 1002:5a62
 Subsystem: 1179:ff10

This is the output of lspci -vvv

0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a62 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device ff10
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
 Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
  Address: 00000000 Data: 0000

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carsten (cniehaus) wrote :
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Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
 Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
 Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
 Option "NoPM" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
 RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
 ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
 FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor
 Load "GLcore"
 Load "dbe"
 Load "dri"
 Load "extmod"
 Load "glx"
        Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
 Load "speedo"
 Load "type1"
 Load "freetype"
 Load "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Keyboard0"
 Driver "keyboard"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
 Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "de"
 Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Serial Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
 Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
 Driver "mouse"
 Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
 Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
 Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
 Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "USB Mouse"
        Driver "mouse"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
 Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Monitor0"
 VendorName "LPL"
 ModelName "LPL0000"
# HorizSync 28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
 HorizSync 28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.
# VertRefresh 50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.
 # Default modes distilled from
 # "VESA and Industry Standards and Guide for Computer Display Monitor
 # Timing", version 1.0, revision 0.8, adopted September 17, 1998.
 # ...

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carsten (cniehaus) wrote : A picture of the broken XOrg

This is a photo of what I get when I manage to start the xserver. This is not static but flickers a lot.

To start the xserver I also need to start with acpi=off or failsafe, as the regular bootoptions result in a kernel oops.

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Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco) wrote :

would you be able to attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote :

Sure, as soon as I will have physical contact to that notebook again I will retest... Might take a couple of days, though...

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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote : Log of the xserver

cat Xorg.0.log

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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote : log of KDM

I think this might also be usefull.

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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote : New foto of the problem.

After a minute or so I hear a sound so I think that KDE is running. No idea what the rect is, but it stays.

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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote :

oh, of course... The rect is the mouse-cursor! When I move the mouse-cursor the rect moves...

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Peter Schwenke (bluetoad) wrote :

Can you please attach the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file generated by Dapper?

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote :

Or test the latest live cd. Since your last attempt there were tons of ati bug fixes.

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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote :

Sorry, currently I have no access to the laptop. I hope I will get my fingers on it this weekend, but that is not yet sure. As soon as I have access to it I will try with at least beta2, promised.

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Peter Schwenke (bluetoad) wrote :

The fixes have gone in since beta2. The daily CD from http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/daily-live/current/ would be better.

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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carsten (cniehaus-kde) wrote :

ok, the problem is fixed in the rc. Thanks for your good work! Even the 16:9 ratio is correct.

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Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki) wrote :

Last comment in May by the initial reporter states this was fixed.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
Changed in xorg:
status: Rejected → Fix Released
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