Public bug reported: Using Kubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha (latest as available via aptitude dist- upgrade). Updated my system last night (January 8, 2008) and an update to xserver-xorg-video-ati (to version 6.7.197) has resulted in X displaying a completely "garbled" display. Nothing is readable, nothing responds (even to ctrl+alt-backspace or switching to a virtual terminal). The mouse cursor still displays fine and responds to input, but nothing else works, including keyboard input.
Changing driver to fglrx in /etc/X11/xorg.conf allows X to start. So my issue is extremely similar to another bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/180343. I created a separate bug report, because I am using a different video card chipset, ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] rev 0. Troubleshooting history: " Mark Rijckenberg wrote 6 hours ago: (permalink) Hi, I confirm this behaviour in Kubuntu Hardy Heron (pre-release) on my PC. After upgrading my pc using aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday, my PC totally freezes/locks up when starting Xorg using the ati or radeon open source drivers. It directly crashes once the Xorg window appears and BEFORE seeing the kdm login window. However, when using the fglrx driver, I can still successfully start up the Xorg server and log into kdm just fine. I use an ATI Radeon 9500 AGP video card. My xorg.conf file has not changed these past few months, but since yesterday, X crashes.... New bug in Xorg? Or in ati or radeon driver? Regards, Mark Rijckenberg Mark Rijckenberg wrote 1 hour ago: (permalink) * X-configure-errors (16.9 KiB, text/plain) Hi, I went to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge Then I went to https://launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive. I added the following to my sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu hardy main Did aptitude update and then aptitude dist-upgrade. Rebooted pc. Still not working. Then I rebooted Kubuntu in recovery mode. Renamed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to xorg.confOLD. Ran X -configure to force X to create a new xorg.conf file. xorg.conf creation failed. Logfile for this is "X-configure-errors" Currently, my Xorg still only works when using the ATI fglrx drivers. I now did the following dangerous upgrade: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/downloads$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197+git20080108.fa3e2055-0ubuntu0tormod_i386.deb dpkg: regarding xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197+git20080108.fa3e2055-0ubuntu0tormod_i386.deb containing xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video-1.0 xserver-xorg-video-ati provides xserver-xorg-video-1.0 and is to be installed. dpkg: warning - ignoring conflict, may proceed anyway ! (Reading database ... 310923 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.197+git20071227.bfa22d-0ubuntu0tormod1 (using xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.197+git20080108.fa3e2055-0ubuntu0tormod_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-ati ... Setting up xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.7.197+git20080108.fa3e2055-0ubuntu0tormod) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data/downloads$ Will reboot pc and let you know if it helped. Fingers crossed ;-) Mark Mark Rijckenberg wrote 1 hour ago: (permalink) Hi, After reboot, the situation was even worse. So I used aptitude dist- upgrade again to automatically downgrade the ATI driver to xserver-xorg- video-ati 1:6.7.197+git20071227.bfa22d-0ubuntu0tormod1, which also does not work. Any other idea's? Mark Steve Langasek wrote 14 minutes ago: (permalink) Hi Mark, ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] rev 0 This is your card as identified in the X log you sent. This is a different chip than the one this bug is reported on; I would recommend that you open a separate bug report for your problem. Timo Aaltonen wrote 13 minutes ago: (permalink) Mark: the conflict is there for a purpose. Gutsy version of the driver was built against an older xserver, so it won't work with hardy which has xserver 1.4. This might be fixed upstream, I'll ask them." ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- ATI driver update causes Display Corruption on ATI Radeon 9500 AGP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181602 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
