[MASTER] Karmic alpha: Checkbox cannot switch display modes in display test

Merged 4 duplicates into this one for ease of tracking. Please provide any additional information you may have about this bug here.

Summary of occurrences of this bug, see duplicates for details:

On an ASUS EEE PC 900, i386
On a Dell Inspiron 1420, amd64
On a Acer Aspire 5536 with Radeon HD 3200, amd64
On a Dell Studio 1537, amd64

Using vesa (since radeon hangs my system in karmic) on T41 (mobility radeon 7500; r100), the hardware test for switching detected modes does nothing, as far as I can tell.

My Bug #433347 is declared as a duplicate of this one :
Dell Dimension E521 with ATI X1300Pro, amd 64

From Bug #437151:
Compaq Evo N1015v with ATI Radeon Mobility U1 (IGP 320M), i386

I encountered the bug on my 64 bit dell vostro 1520.

Merged 3 duplicates (bugs 442646, 441924, 439852) into this one for ease of tracking. Please provide any additional information you may have about this bug here.

Summary of new occurrences of this bug, see duplicates for details:

On a Micro-Star Inc. MS-6566E, i386
On an ASUS A8He, i386
On a Dell Dimension 4550, i386

I'm getting this bug on ASUS X50SL-AP124C - Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 3072MB 320GB 15.4IN DVD Super-Multi DL WIFI webcam ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 with 256MB dedicated graphics

I got this on Dell Latitude E6500 with Intel GMA 4500MHD.

Same problem with Intel 82815 graphics with Acer FP751 Monitor.
Modes are detected but monitor does not switch during testings.

I reported this bug as #447624, when testing Ubuntu 9.10 Beta in Live! mode on an Asus A2H (A2500H) laptop. It is still present after installing Ubuntu 9.10 RC using Wubi.exe on Windows XP partition. As otherwise reported, System testing shows a variety of Modes detected in the previous step, but can not test them out. My suspicion is that the Systems Test module is defective.

It appears that 'checkbox' has some sort of video test which is buggy. Whatever the problem is, it's causing a lot of stray dupe bugs to get filed against xorg.

Merged 3 duplicates (bug #450888, bug #456998, bug #457086) into this one for ease of tracking.

This bug doesn't seem so hardware-specific (or even hardware-related in any way) now.

And letting this bug slip through into the release version of Karmic will create even *more* stray duplicate bugs. :(

It seems this problem is partially related to bug #459606. However, Bryce has raised a valid concern that this bug report should contain additional information already known by Checkbox such as the test description. So, I will add this information in the hope future bug reports will be more relevant.

Concur -- thank you kindly!

Regards,
rcs

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Louis Simard <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Merged 3 duplicates (bug #450888, bug #456998, bug #457086) into this
> one for ease of tracking.
>
> This bug doesn't seem so hardware-specific (or even hardware-related in
> any way) now.
>
> And letting this bug slip through into the release version of Karmic
> will create even *more* stray duplicate bugs. :(
>
> --
> [MASTER] Karmic alpha: Checkbox cannot switch display modes in display test
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427932
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in Checkbox System Testing: New
> Status in “checkbox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “x11-xserver-utils” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: x11-xserver-utils
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1)Perform the display test of checkbox
>
> What happens:
> 1)Switch display modes test does not pass
>
> Tested using Toshiba A200 laptop.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Sep 11 15:15:10 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090902.1)
> Lsusb:
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite A200
> Package: x11-xserver-utils 7.4+2ubuntu1
> PccardctlIdent:
> Socket 0:
> no product info available
> PccardctlStatus:
> Socket 0:
> no card
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed
> boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
> debian-installer/language=el console-setup/layoutcode?=gr
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
> libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
> libdrm2 2.4.12+git20090801.45078630-0ubuntu1
> xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
> xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090825.fc74e119-0ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: x11-xserver-utils
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
> XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
> dmi.bios.date: 04/26/2007
> dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.bios.version: V1.40
> dmi.board.name: ISKAE
> dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.board.version: 1.00
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: *
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV1.40:bd04/26/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteA200:pvrPSAE0E-04E029GE:rvnTOSHIBA:rnISKAE:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: Satellite A200
> dmi.product.version: PSAE0E-04E029GE
> dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
> fglrx: Not loaded
> system:
> distro: Ubuntu
> architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-9-generic
>
> [lspci]
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corpor...

This bug was fixed in the package checkbox - 0.8.5

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checkbox (0.8.5) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fixed translation of suites and tests files (LP: #456115)
  * Fixed checking the status of command registries (LP: #457502)
  * Fixed selecting suites in the command line (LP: #457559)
  * Fixed reporting of bugs to contain test description (LP: #427932)
  * Fixed execute permissions on scripts (LP: #459606)
  * Renamed processors_info plugin to singular because processor
    information is reported as a single structure with a count attribute
  * Updated translation files.

 -- Marc Tardif <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:17:30 -0400

I tested this bug again for Ubuntu 9.10 Final Release that I reported as Bug #447624 on my Asus A2H (A2500H). When run Live mode, the test performed by Systems Test worked very nicely.

But after installation on my Windows XP SP3 partition using Wubi.exe, System Test mode tested the primary video mode, but failed to cycle through all the others as it did in Live mode. Is this an artifact of the Wubi created environment or the Windows partition? Is it just a problem with Systems testing (checkbox) program?

Note that my usage of the primary video mode in subsequent testing was not affected!