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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

[HD 3670] selecting VT gives garbage, freeze on Dell XPS series

Bug #324234 reported by Steve Conklin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xorg-driver-ati
Fix Released
High
xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

Selecting the first VT (ctl-alt-F1) results in flashing garbage on screen, and sometimes (one in three tests) a freeze.

Attached logs are from the first reboot after the freeze.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility HD 3670 [1002:9593]
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0272]

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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=22473)
gdm log, showing error messages

The gdm log shows some xserver output which might be relevant...

invalid output device for dac detection
in RADEONProbeOutputModes
...
Unblank CRTC 0 success
error setting MTRR (base = 0xc0000000, size = 0x20000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
 ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=22474)
Xorg.0.log

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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=22475)
Xorg.0.log.old

Nothing obviously interesting in either Xorg.0.log but attaching them for completeness.

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Steve Conklin (sconklin) wrote : selecting VT gives garbage, crash on Dell XPS series

Selecting the first VT (ctl-alt-F1) results in flashing garbage on screen, and sometimes (one in three tests) a crash.

Attached logs are from the first reboot after the crash.

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Steve Conklin (sconklin) wrote :
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Steve Conklin (sconklin) wrote :

Here's a screen shot

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
description: updated
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In , agd5f (agd5f) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=22496)
possible fix

Does this patch help?

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In , agd5f (agd5f) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=22497)
possible fix

Does this patch help?

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Btw, make sure to file against xserver-xorg-video-*, not xserver-xorg-driver-* (the latter are old, obsolete packages only present in launchpad to confuse people).

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi Steve, I've forwarded this bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19906 - please subscribe to this bug in case upstream needs more info or has something for you to test.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

debs: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/ati-bug324234/

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Steve, debs with the patch are here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/ati-bug324234/

For reference, steps to build a patched -ati package:
 503 apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-ati
  504 ls
  505 cd xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.10.0
  506 ls
  507 cd debian/
  508 cd patches/
  509 ls
  510 wget http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=22497
  511 ls
  512 mv attachment.cgi\?id\=22497 105_hd3670_support.patch
  513 echo 105_hd3670_support.patch >> series
  514 cd ..
  515 dch -i # write log message
  516 ls
  517 debuild -S
  518 cd ..
  519 ls
  520 sudo ARCH=amd64 pbuilder update
  521 sudo ARCH=amd64 pbuilder build xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.10.0-1ubuntu2.dsc
  522 ls /var/cache/pbuilder/jaunty-amd64/result/*6.10.0-1ubuntu2*deb
  523 scp /var/cache/pbuilder/jaunty-amd64/result/*6.10.0-1ubuntu2*deb people.ubuntu.com:public_html/Testing/

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Steve Conklin (sconklin) wrote :

This solved the problem on the machine it was originally reported for.

Thanks!

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In , Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Steve reports:

"""
This solved the problem on the machine it was originally reported for.

Thanks!
"""

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.10.99.0-1ubuntu1

---------------
xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.10.99.0-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    + 104_use_exa.patch: Switches to EXA acceleration by default.
  * Add 105_hd3670_support.patch: Fix VT switching issues on HD3670
    (Fixes LP: #324234)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:40:29 -0800

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
importance: Unknown → High
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
importance: High → Unknown
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Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
importance: Unknown → High
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