System: Thinkpad X31, ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY, Debian unstable, Xorg 7.0.20, ATI driver 6.5.8.0-1 Using screen depth of 24bit, dri disabled, starting the game lbreakout, pressing repeatedly the "f" key (switches between window and full-screen 640x480 mode) reliably freezes the system completely (no ssh, no SysRQ Keys). The screen shows horizontal lines and a square in the middle (sorry, no screenshot). Using 16bit screen depth gives no problems at all. Disabling or Enabling DynamicClocks does not have any effect on this. Here is the xorg.conf file: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "DefaultLayout" Screen "Screen" InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" EndSection Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "record" # TouchPad not detected EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI" Driver "radeon" VendorName "IBM Thinkpad" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility M6" # acceleration # Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "EnablePageFlip" "on" # Option "RenderAccel" "on" Option "AGPFastWrite" "no" # Option "BackingStore" "on" # Option "AccelMethod" "exa" # enable PowerPlay features # Option "DynamicClocks" "on" # use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7) Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "sw_cursor" "off" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "InternalLCD" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen" Device "ATI" Monitor "InternalLCD" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Possibly related to bug #7154 ?
Created attachment 5933 [details] Xorg.log from one freeze session
(In reply to comment #0) > > Possibly related to bug #7154 ? Most likely, as there isn't anything specific about fullscreen other than the mode switch. The log file actually looks like the server is trying to shut down though?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > > > Possibly related to bug #7154 ? > > Most likely, as there isn't anything specific about fullscreen other than the > mode switch. O.k, but there is one difference: With MergedFB (#7154) the freezes seem to be unrelated to screen depth. They happen whether you use 24bit or 16bit. This ("full-screen") bug, so far, only happened with 24bit so far (and I'm not using MergedFB). > The log file actually looks like the server is trying to shut down > though? Hopefully, I took the right log file... I just restarted the computer after the last freeze and took the one called Xorg.0.log.old. But maybe I mixed something up... Next time I will take more care. (However, I don't know how many "orphan inodes deleted" and "fsck has detected problems on the disk and requires a reboot" messages I can still bear to see :-( ). But as long as there is no real method to diagnose system freezes, there certainly is no easy method to come up with a problem solution, I guess. At least so far, this certainly bears to many similarities with #7154 :-( Thanks for your time and your work, Michel! I really like the power of this small graphics card. It's certainly powerful enough for all I need, even google earth runs fast enough ! Should be strong enough also for xgl, I guess. But at the moment I'd really like to switch my graphics card adapter to something with less bugs. This is, if it weren't a laptop with integrated graphics ;-)
The freezes can be avoided when using xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.5.7.3-3. The bug only appears with 6.5.8.0-1.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7154 ***
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