ATI Radeon 9200 AGP bus Non-Functional Xorg driver ati

[w4ett]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

xserver-xorg-video-ati in Feisty Fawn using ATI Radeon 9200SE 64 MB AGP card broken. Xorg is unstable and crashes unless using the following:

Applicable Xorg.conf sections:

Section "Device"

Identifier "ATI Radeon 9200SE"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRam 65536
Option "BusType" "PCI"

EndSection

Without using: Option "BusType" "PCI" X crashes (freezes) at irregular intervals requiring a complete system reboot (Keyboard and Mouse Functionality frozen, Ctrl-Alt-Bkspce does not reset X). Using Option PCI X is completely stable.

This bug might be related to report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/116471

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This was the same in Edgy, wasn't it?

Can you please attach the full xorg.conf and an Xorg.0.log from running without the PCI option?

[w4ett (w4ett)]

The results are the same in Edgy. xorg.conf attached for feisty with PCI Option DISABLED.

[w4ett (w4ett)]

Xorg.0.log for Feisty with PCI Option DISABLED

[w4ett (w4ett)]

xorg.conf with PCI Option ENABLED.

[w4ett (w4ett)]

Xorg.0.log for Feisty with PCI Option ENABLED

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

w4ett said somewhere else that this is a "8X AGP RV280 64MB 9200SE". However, this line from the Xorg.0.log (running AGP):
(II) RADEON(0): [agp] Mode 0x1f004e09 [AGP 0x1039/0x0741; Card 0x1002/0x5964]
indicates AFAICS that the card is running 4X.

I would suggest trying: Option "AGPMode" "8"
in xorg.conf

[w4ett (w4ett)]

I tried using Option "AGPMode" "8" with the following results:

don@don-desktop:~$ glxgears
709 frames in 5.3 seconds = 132.843 FPS
678 frames in 5.3 seconds = 127.904 FPS
1469 frames in 5.2 seconds = 280.979 FPS
1469 frames in 5.3 seconds = 277.919 FPS
1469 frames in 5.2 seconds = 282.150 FPS
1469 frames in 5.3 seconds = 278.089 FPS
1469 frames in 5.2 seconds = 281.948 FPS
1469 frames in 5.3 seconds = 278.148 FPS
1469 frames in 5.4 seconds = 273.462 FPS
1469 frames in 5.3 seconds = 279.141 FPS

Xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log follows:

[w4ett (w4ett)]

Please disregard previous log. I mistakenly attached wrong File...Sorry.

When I tried Forcing the card into AGP 8 mode X crashed upon system start before the login screen, but after the Ubuntu boot splash screens.

[w4ett (w4ett)]

Debug file attached.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

What does it look like with ati 6.7.194 ?

[w4ett (w4ett)]

Have upgraded to Gutsy at tribe 4, and the driver seems to have stabilized my system

Glx framerate with compiz fusion running:

w4ett@w4ett-desktop:~$ glxgears
3698 frames in 5.0 seconds = 739.580 FPS
3607 frames in 5.0 seconds = 721.222 FPS
2582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 516.278 FPS
3752 frames in 5.0 seconds = 750.349 FPS
3765 frames in 5.0 seconds = 752.988 FPS
3759 frames in 5.0 seconds = 751.629 FPS
3585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 716.935 FPS
w4ett@w4ett-desktop:~$

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Great!