Bug 28937

Summary:

[M7 LW] Maverick ati xorg freeze booting with external monitor

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Bryce Harrington <bryce>

Component:

Driver/Radeon

Assignee:

xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

high

CC:

jerrylamos

Version:

7.4 (2008.09)

Keywords:

regression

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Info from ssh	none
dmesg from hang	none
dmesg & Xorg.0.log	none

Description Bryce Harrington 2010-07-06 18:18:50 UTC

Forwarding this bug from Ubuntu reporter jerrylamos:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/598322

With external 1280x1024 screen set on and laptop screen off in System Preferences Monitors, boot hangs showing splash screen with kernel 2.6.35-5-generic.  Boots fine with kernel 2.6.34-5-generic.

ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] IBM Thinkpad T40

Attached is Xorg.0.log, xsession-errors, dmesg obtained with ssh from another pc on the network.

Updated to 2.6.35-6, tested again, and X hangs during boot again.

radeon.modeset=0
fixes it, I think, booted a couple times O.K.

Tried it by hand on boot editing the linux line, then by altering /etc/default/grub to
quiet splash radeon.modeset=0
worked both times.

Do note on another of my pc's booting Maverick with intel driver I use
i915.modeset=0

Maverick KMS is buggy on two of my three pc's. The one that is booting O.K. has Radeon Xpress 200. I'll check it tonight to see if KMS is in fact on.

2.6.34-5 will boot with KMS on.
Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches to text screen O.K.
Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back to desktop fails. Screens freeze. ssh still works.
Attached is dmesg & Xorg.0.log by ssh from another pc on the net.

Jerry

Comment 1 Bryce Harrington 2010-07-06 18:38:11 UTC

Created attachment 36793 [details]
Info from ssh

Comment 2 Bryce Harrington 2010-07-06 18:38:17 UTC

Created attachment 36794 [details]
dmesg from hang

Comment 3 Bryce Harrington 2010-07-06 18:38:22 UTC

Created attachment 36795 [details]
dmesg & Xorg.0.log

Comment 4 Christopher M. Penalver 2016-02-24 05:56:17 UTC

Problem resolved for original report back in 2010.

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