Bug 32466

Summary:

X-Server crashhang with modesetting

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb>

Component:

Driver/Radeon

Assignee:

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

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Severity:

major

Priority:

medium

Version:

7.5 (2009.10)

Hardware:

x86-64 (AMD64)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
X giving up to initialize graphics mode	none
X crashing with strange errors a short while after operation	none
X crashing with strange errors a short while after operation (user level log)	none
xorg package versions	none
xorg.conf	none
colorful pixelsoup (integrated scr only)	none
most times when it initializes only a singleton screen comes up	none

Description Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 02:53:56 UTC

Using the newest available kernel 2.6.37-rc5 (2.6.37-6.99.7.0926a18) the X-server as currently provided hangs up as well but more entirely than with the 2.6.34/nomodeset configuration (Bug 32393) possibly for another reason though.
 Modesetting still does not work at a usable level as so far: The screen starts as here to blink between dark and enlightened black. After some minutes the X-Server finally gives up and exits (Xorg.0.log). Two times as though I succeeded to bring it up in spite of these problems once with the external screen staying dark and another time with both screens enabled. The luck didn`t last for long though as after issuing a startkde multiple X-Server errors occurred short after which the server hung itself fully up (as described at the beginning).
  Configuration and X-Server versions are the same as for Bug 32393. When the external screen does not come up it is recognized and shown to be initilized by xrandr however not displaying anything.

Comment 1 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 02:56:00 UTC

Created attachment 41201 [details]
X giving up to initialize graphics mode

Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 02:56:52 UTC

Created attachment 41202 [details]
X crashing with strange errors a short while after operation

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 02:57:23 UTC

Created attachment 41203 [details]
X crashing with strange errors a short while after operation (user level log)

Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 02:58:17 UTC

Created attachment 41204 [details]
xorg package versions

Comment 5 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 03:00:07 UTC

Created attachment 41205 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 6 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 03:17:01 UTC

Created attachment 41206 [details]
colorful pixelsoup (integrated scr only)

Comment 7 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 03:17:59 UTC

Created attachment 41207 [details]
most times when it initializes only a singleton screen comes up

Comment 8 Elmar Stellnberger 2010-12-17 04:17:37 UTC

related KMS reports (with hwinfo & messages):
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620439
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25052

Comment 9 Michel Dänzer 2010-12-17 05:27:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> colorful pixelsoup (integrated scr only)

This log file shows the X driver using UMS while KMS is initialized in the kernel. Make sure the radeon kernel module is loaded and initialized before X starts.

There are several issues here which will need to be tracked separately.

Comment 10 Elmar Stellnberger 2015-11-27 12:04:23 UTC

error was no more observed with newer versions of X / report is very old.

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