The concerned Hardware is gone, so testing is not possible for me anymore. I guess the bug has to be closed ... I don't remember it occuring on other machines, also with integrated Radeon, but different chips.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561301 Title: [RV690] flicker on startup, dead black screen after some time with lucid if KMS enabled (Needs DVI quirk) Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati It is tricky to determine if this issue is the same as one reported in the several bugs about freezes / black screens, so I'm making a new one... I installed a amd64 ubuntu lucid lynx beta1 system on a box with a Foxconn mainboard that features integrated radeon graphics, namely RS690. The system has all current updates as of last saturday. I notice some things, possible related to the final freeze/crash/whatever: 1. Multiple flickering on startup, sortof in intervals of about a second. This includes the plymouth splash screen and the desktop after it appeared (automatic login) for some time. Annoying but not fatal as such, as it seems to stop, generally (maybe reappears once on certain actions, like starting a video player). 2. There is only a VGA connector and there the monitor is connected. The radeon driver complains about bad EDID data for the DVI port, multiple times. Well, there is no physical DVI port. 3. After some undetermined time of usage, the screen suddenty goes black, and I am unable to reach a console. I need to have a second computer to get debugging, I guess. The machine is not frozen, but the screen is gone. This persists with a self-built 2.6.33.2-rt13 kernel (since this is supposed to be an audio workstation) in the same manner, with the linux-rt kernel it was a bit different (for example, I needed to fix the resolution in xorg.conf because with that kernel a wrong one is detected), I did not spend enough time with it to trigger that black screen ... or indeed it does not happen there. I'll try starting with nomodeset ... then examine if there are still options like switching back to XAA (that worked in the past for the buggy intel drivers) ... or resort to VESA. I actually have no time to debug Xorg issues on that box, but well... do I have a choice? With another non-ubuntu system (older Xorg at least, kernel version about the same), this never occured. So it might have to do with the recent enable of KMS, or acceleration architecture updates. --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21. Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/seq: musiker 1797 F.... qjackctl.bin CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xfe7f8000 irq 16' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC883' Components : 'HDA:10ec0883,105b0c8c,00100002' Controls : 28 Simple ctrls : 17 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Frequency: I don't know. HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=fe1f2b79-1cb9-4b0a-87c3-cd2aecac0d67 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318) IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ppp0 no wireless extensions. MachineType: FOXCONN RS690M2MA Package: linux (not installed) ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=1ffb8723-173a-4118-9350-13115ffe0b04 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=C SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Regression: Yes RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34 Reproducible: No RfKill: Tags: lucid graphics regression-release needs-upstream-testing Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev sambashare video dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 080014 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: A690GM2MA/A690VM2MA dmi.board.vendor: FOXCONN dmi.board.version: 0A dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080014:bd05/26/2008:svnFOXCONN:pnRS690M2MA:pvr0A:rvnFOXCONN:rnA690GM2MA/A690VM2MA:rvr0A:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: RS690M2MA dmi.product.version: 0A dmi.sys.vendor: FOXCONN To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/561301/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
