ATI prop.driver on Hardy 64bit result in no screen output

[Sander Jonkers]

Hardware: Asus M2A-VM HDMI, with onboard ATI GPU: "Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics"

The installation of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 5 64-bit goes perfect. After reboot + first login, the proprietary driver is offered. After installation of that prop.driver (15MB) and reboot, the GUI screen does not appear and my monitor turns off (no signal).

I had to reboot into recovery mode to get a safe X config.

This might me related to Bug #177658, but I have too little knowledge to tell.

Possibly relevant stuff:

sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$ xrandr -q -d :0
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024 60.0*
   1024x768 85.0
   800x600 86.0
   640x480 86.0
   720x400 86.0
sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$

sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$ cat /etc/*rel*
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$

[Olexandr Zanichkovsky (ozanichkovsky)]

I confirm this bug with ATI X1300.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

To check it's not 64-bit related, I installed 8.04 hardy alpha 5 i386, with the same results: activating the ATI prop.driver ("fglrx") followed by a reboot, results in no screen output at all; the monitor on/off light goes into orange blinking mode instead of steady green light.

So: it's not 64-bit related.

Pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 results in a blinkinh, grey screen with some lines spaced by about 1 cm.

Pressing (CTRL) ALT-F7 after that, results in a low res GUI saying "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode". I can then select VESA at 800x600.

While typing this, I realize I should have saved /var/log/Xorg.0.log, which I didn't. But see below.

To repair this, on reboot I selected the second boot option ("safe graphics"?) and selected 'xfix' which brought back my 1280 x 1024. In System -> Administration -> Screen and Graphics, I *can not* see which driver is now used; all parameter boxes are empty.

After this boot, /var/log showed this:

sander@ubuntu-i386:/var/log$ ls -al Xorg.0.log*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75888 2008-02-27 06:54 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72225 2008-02-27 06:41 Xorg.0.log.old
sander@ubuntu-i386:/var/log$

I have included Xorg.0.log.old; hopefully it contains the no-output-logging.

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

or: fglrx-driver

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

To get fresh and shiny log files, I installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit), installed ssh-server, activated the prop.driver (fglrx), rebooted, and then remotely logged on to get dmesg, Xorg.0.log.old, Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf. I will at those files with the filenames below:

sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$ ls -al | grep -i no-screen
-rw-r--r-- 1 sander sander 29531 2008-02-27 20:01 dmesg.fglrx.no-screen
-rw-r--r-- 1 sander sander 20499 2008-02-27 20:06 Xorg.0.log.old---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx
-rw-r--r-- 1 sander sander 71987 2008-02-27 20:06 Xorg.0.log---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx
-rw-r--r-- 1 sander sander 1256 2008-02-27 20:06 xorg.conf---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx
sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$

First look at Xorg.0.log.old---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx shows this:

(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver

Is that the problem?

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === begin
(II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
(II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.4.0.90, module version = 0.1.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 1 card 5 func 0
(II) fglrx(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
        "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 8/8
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (8) is not supported by fglrx driver
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInitVisual failed
SetVBEMode failed
(EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
(II) fglrx(0): === [atiddxPreInit] === end
(II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
(II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Here's Xorg.0.log---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx / Xorg.0.log

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

Here's dmesg / dmesg.fglrx.no-screen

sander@ubuntu-amd64:~$ cat dmesg.fglrx.no-screen | grep fg
[ 33.230601] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 33.329257] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 3737 MBytes.
[ 33.329289] [fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[ 33.329410] [fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[ 33.330553] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.45.5 [Feb 1 2008] on minor 0
sander@ubuntu-amd64:~

[Sander Jonkers (jonkers)]

And here's xorg.conf---prop.driver-no-screen.fglrx / xorg.conf