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fglrx-installer package

Fglrx regressions

Bug #579167 reported by sourchier on 2010-05-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: fglrx

The standard fglrx driver in Lucid works OK, at least for a while. When trying to play a 3D game the entire box hangs. I can restart the computer using the magic Screen alt + printscreen + (X, S, E, U, I, K, B) keys. Before installing the driver I can mount USB sticks and USB hard disks automatically. However, after the fglrx install, I can only mount them by hand. In Jaunty the hypermemory for my card worked however it is no longer being detected. I checked the logs, and it seems that these hangs are leaving no error information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 12 10:02:55 2010
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.723.1, 2.6.32-22-generic-pae, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA770T-UD3P
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic-pae root=UUID=6413e46f-534b-4a4e-bae3-40ebad267503 ro nomodeset quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
dmi.bios.date: 04/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7
dmi.board.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd04/14/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA770T-UD3P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA770T-UD3P:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic-pae

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sourchier (sourchier) wrote on 2010-05-12:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (43.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (13.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (667 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (759 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (231 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (104.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (223.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (787 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (22.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (23.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (6.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (21.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (47.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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sourchier (sourchier) wrote on 2010-05-16:

I „fixed“ the crashes for a little while with changing to the open source radeon driver. It ran almost perfectly however with all the artifacts and undrawn shadows it was unplayable.

A few days later I cobbled together a fix.

Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS"
Option "NoRandR"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "mtrr" "off"
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "DRI"
Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
Option "backingstore" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
Option "BusType" "PCI"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

grub.conf

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset vga=795 iommu=noaperture"

And this worked for a few hours until it hung again. I have already also done a memory test and a hard disk test. (Using „memtest“ and „MHDD“ respectively) Everything seems to be in order but my box still locks up.

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sourchier (sourchier) wrote on 2011-02-20:

Purging the fglrx driver and installing the 10.2 drivers for my card fixes this. I now only need vga=795 and nomodeset to be end the hanging. I wish that ubuntu could do this out of the box.

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