[rs690] radeonhd driver segfaults - edid problem on x64

[Joachim Beckers]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd

I'm trying the radeonhd driver on hardy x64 on an asus m2a-vm hdmi mobo. this board has a RS690 chip with integrated radeon x1250 gpu.

when loading the xserver, radeonhd segfaults. the log is attached.

meanwhile on the screen, it says that it cannot get any edid data. looking for information on edid, it found that there is no read-edid package for x64 systems. I'm not sure the driver would need that though. It might be another issue.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Thanks for your report. This was just now added upstream:

Added Asus M2A-VM (RS690 based) to quirks table. master
author Johann Hanne <email address hidden>
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:35:56 +0000 (14:35 +0100)
committer Matthias Hopf <email address hidden>
  Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:35:56 +0000 (14:35 +0100)
commit bb12148cbb02e93c17a03649a173d0566bbe5a4d

Please try building from git, or wait for an update on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge has the new radeonhd driver now, it's built on Gutsy but should work fine on Hardy.

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

The packages in you ppa, you mean? Those are not installable (both depend on xserver-xorg-core and try to remove it). I think because xserver-xorg-core is versioned 2:1.3.0*.0* in gutsy while in hardy it's 2:1.4.1*~2007...* and radeonhd seems to think 1.3.0.0 is bigger than 1.1.4~2007... or so

Or do you provide packages for hardy? Your ppa page lists them:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ubuntu *hardy* main

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

I only provide for Gutsy at the moment. I just checked my ppa page and I see no mention of hardy?

I will think of making Hardy packages, or make the Depends field work for both. Thanks for the hint.

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

about the ppa: that's a bug in lauchpad then. when I first get to the page it displays hardy, but when activating gutsy in the selection-thingy, it becomes gutsy (and the same for feisty)

about the hardy packages: I've built from git for now, not tested if it works yet. but packages for hardy would be cool, at last its the driver/distro of the future! ;-)

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

> about the ppa: that's a bug in lauchpad then.

That explains it. I forgot that I am using the launchpad beta, where this probably is fixed already.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Joachim, can you please attach the error messages from trying to install the gutsy version on hardy?

When I try:
 dpkg --compare-versions 2:1.3 lt 2:1.4.1~git20071212-1ubuntu1 && echo true
I get "true" as one should expect.

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

root@madkeunnen:/home/joachim/Downloads# dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb containing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd:
 xserver-xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video-1.0
  xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd provides xserver-xorg-video-1.0 and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
(Reading database ... 115584 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg 1.0.0-1 (using xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg:
 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg depends on xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (= 1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod); however:
  Version of xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd on system is 1.0.0-1.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd_1.0.0+git20071212-0ubuntu0tormod_amd64.deb
 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd-dbg
root@madkeunnen:/home/joachim/Downloads#

[Joachim Beckers (jbeckers)]

two comments:

1. crash is fixed in the latest git

2. the packages in tormod's ppa install fine now.

[duncang (duncan-rotherbridge)]

This may be the same bug as I had and also bugs 154162, 161215, 147547.

Ubuntu 7.10, Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H with ATI X1250. Could not perform graphical install, text install appears to hang after reboot. Fixed by installing latest ATI drivers (8.1 Jan 2008 ) and setting default screen resolution to 1024x768 in /etc/usplash.conf.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

duncang, if it was the same bug, it would have been fixed by the above ppa package.