Bug 105526

Summary: Consistent crashes with Zaphod mode after update
Product: xorg Reporter: Hamish Wilson <hamish>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Hamish Wilson 2018-03-15 17:43:23 UTC 
Created attachment 138136 [details]
Xorg.0.log

I have been experiencing consistent crashes when using Zaphod mode on Arch Linux after upgrading the xf86-video-ati package from 1:7.10.0-1 to 1:18.0.0-1. These crashes occur whenever I move my mouse to my second monitor, or when a full screen application is launched on the second screen. I also had at least one crash when closing dhewm3 on my primary screen. Disabling Zaphod and using RandR to manage dual head works without issues. I am now using the modesetting driver with Zaphod mode which also appears to work flawlessly.

I am using a SAPPHIRE HD 6870 1 GB GDDR5 PCIE graphics card.

See also this Arch Linux Forum thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1774104
Comment 1 Hamish Wilson 2018-03-15 17:43:53 UTC 
Created attachment 138137 [details]
jouranctl output
Comment 2 Hamish Wilson 2018-03-15 17:45:10 UTC 
Created attachment 138138 [details]
Error Message

This is the error that appears after Xorg dies and I am returned to the console.
Comment 3 Hamish Wilson 2018-03-15 17:46:37 UTC 
Created attachment 138139 [details]
journalctl output
Comment 4 Hamish Wilson 2018-03-15 17:49:01 UTC 
Created attachment 138140 [details]
Complete system specifications
Comment 5 Ernst Sjöstrand 2018-03-15 17:53:46 UTC 
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2018-March/020141.html was released today, maybe helps?
Comment 6 Michel Dänzer 2018-03-15 17:54:49 UTC 
Thanks for the report. This is fixed in xf86-video-ati 18.0.1 with

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=b915e8e6fb956e983c2ce2a5565c20838c85707c
Comment 7 Hamish Wilson 2018-03-16 07:57:56 UTC 
Just got my updates and everything is working fine again. Thanks for all that you do guys. :-)

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