Bug 89548

Summary: Power management related X / radeon crash
Product: xorg Reporter: Adam Flott <adam>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.7 (2012.06)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Adam Flott 2015-03-11 23:29:38 UTC
Created attachment 114233 [details]
dmesg

After 30 minutes or so my display goes black and I can see my desktop environment (KDE) crashed in dmesg. See attached dmesg and Xorg.0.log. Please ignore all the v4l related noise in the dmesg as it's from a custom compiled kernel and not the stock Arch Linux kernel I'd normally use.

This has both happened with kernel 3.18 and 4.0-rc3. The severity increased on the upgrade to xorg 1.17

OS: Arch
GPU: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
Display Type: Display Port
Comment 1 Adam Flott 2015-03-11 23:30:46 UTC
Created attachment 114234 [details]
x log
Comment 2 Adam Flott 2015-03-12 00:07:28 UTC
Some other possibly helpful info.

I left my login manager (sddm) sit until the screen went dim due to inactivity. I moved the mouse around to wake it back up. My monitor notices the card trying (the OSD kicks in), but my screen stays black. Any attempts to restart X or get the display back results in the same behavior. The only solution is a hard reset.
Comment 3 Alex Deucher 2015-03-12 00:28:08 UTC
possibly a duplicate of bug 89431.  Can you try the patch on that bug?
Comment 4 Adam Flott 2015-03-12 02:23:39 UTC
(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #3)
> possibly a duplicate of bug 89431.  Can you try the patch on that bug?

Same behavior after 5 attempts with kernel 4.0.
Comment 5 Adam Flott 2015-04-10 18:19:14 UTC
I believe I've been able to pin-point the cause of this crash.

I re-installed Arch as a last ditch effort to bring stability to my desktop. However, this time I did not install the Infinality patches (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality). I've had 0 X crashes after a week of heavy usage.

Feel free to close if you believe this is an isolated issue.

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