Bug 53868 - kernel crashes on dual screen setup with radeon driver
Summary: kernel crashes on dual screen setup with radeon driver
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: 7.6 (2010.12)
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2012-08-21 07:09 UTC by Elmar Stellnberger
Modified: 2012-08-25 09:07 UTC (History)
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Attachments
xorg.conf (10.55 KB, text/plain)
2012-08-21 07:10 UTC, Elmar Stellnberger
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Xorg.0.log (100.00 KB, text/plain)
2012-08-21 07:10 UTC, Elmar Stellnberger
no flags Details
messages(dmesg) (181.05 KB, application/x-bzip2)
2012-08-21 14:38 UTC, Elmar Stellnberger
no flags Details

Description Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 07:09:41 UTC
If I boot with my old setup (see attached xorg.conf) then I get an entire system crash at a black screen. Not even the SysRq keys can help to escape. That setup was still working with 1.7.7-14. Now with 7.6_1.12.3-1.2.3 I get a black screen.
Comment 1 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 07:10:12 UTC
Created attachment 65865 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 07:10:39 UTC
Created attachment 65866 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 3 Alex Deucher 2012-08-21 14:00:39 UTC
You are using UMS which is no longer supported.  Do you still have problems when you use KMS?  If you really want to use UMS, you might try xf86-video-ati 6.14.6.
Comment 4 Alex Deucher 2012-08-21 14:01:37 UTC
Also please attach your dmesg output.
Comment 5 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 14:19:07 UTC
I have not re-filed a bug report for KMS though it now got worse than ever before (mere pixel soup on both monitors, no way to start X) except downstreams (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776569). Should I additionally file on kernel.org or here on freedesktop.org? (dmesg coming soon).
Comment 6 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 14:38:14 UTC
Created attachment 65890 [details]
messages(dmesg)
Comment 7 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 14:40:14 UTC
Well; the power switch is the only thing that still works; no crash then ;) - we need to resolve Bug 53873 for getting the keyboard up if we want any interactive debugging.
Comment 8 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-21 19:34:18 UTC
Fortunately it is not the dual screenery that makes Xorg crash. I can boot in single screen mode without xorg.conf and then activate the second screen via xrandr. This is a bit unhandy since I will have to configure KDE for the second screen on every new boot by hand (i.e. plasma panel & icons) but there is a way to get Xorg well up and running!
Comment 9 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-25 09:07:30 UTC
Fortunately as Bug 53873 is more or less resolved I could go on to get a backtrace;: posted as own bug to make things clearer for you: *** Bug 54044 *** (The fact that it did not accept any more keyboard and mouse input had resembled a crash=).


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