Visual effects not supported with rs350

[phil]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

While using Ubuntu 7.10 I encountered a message upon start up that I could not display visual effects for the Ubuntu logo and loading screen. In addition, when I went to system>Preferences>Appearance, clicked on the visual effects tab and tried anything but "None", I encountered the error message "The Composite Extension is not available." As a result, I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, encountered the exact same problems.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 8 18:07:05 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: ubuntu-docs 8.04.2~hardy
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
Title: package ubuntu-docs 8.04.2~hardy failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Thanks for your bug. It's not a bug in documentation so I'm reassigning it to the compiz package.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The bug that triggered this crash report is a scrollkepper issue:

Setting up ubuntu-docs (7.10.5) ...
*** glibc detected *** scrollkeeper-update: corrupted double-linked list: 0x08052238 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7ceafed]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7cee800]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(fclose+0x134)[0xb7cd96f4]
scrollkeeper-update[0x804a335]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7c97050]
scrollkeeper-update[0x8048f91]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0804b000 r-xp 00000000 03:05 328624 /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
0804b000-0804c000 rw-p 00002000 03:05 328624 /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
0804c000-0808e000 rw-p 0804c000 00:00 0 [heap]

As for your compiz problem, could you please add the output of:
$ lspci -nn
(from a terminal window)?

Thanks,
 Michael

[phil (d0m0suka)]

Here are the results for $ lspci -nn.
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host
 Bridge [1106:0314]
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host
 Bridge [1106:1314]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host
 Bridge [1106:2314]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge [1106:3208]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host
 Bridge [1106:4314]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host
 Bridge [1106:7314]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge [1106:b198]
00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Contro
ller [1106:3149] (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT
823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Con
troller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Con
troller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Con
troller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Con
troller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 8
6)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T80
0/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235
/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] [11
06:3065] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon
9550] [1002:4153]
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (
Secondary) [1002:4173]
phil@Shiznit:~$

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks Phil,

we used to blacklist the rs350 radeon card in gutsy, but it should no longer in hardy (8.04). Could you please check (with dpkg -l or synaptic) what version of compiz-core you have installed?

Thanks,
 Michael

[phil (d0m0suka)]

I have 1:0.7.4-Oubuntu6 which according to my package manager is the latest version?

[phil (d0m0suka)]

 Hello Michael,
I am still having the same problem, and I was wondering if you would mind helping me. If you need anything more from my end please let me know, but I am new to this so bare with me.
 -Thank you in advance,
      Phil. :-)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Hi Phil. Is this still occuring for you? Have you tried Ubuntu 8.10 or the 9.04 beta?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!