M3A-H/HDMI: Kernel Panic when using surroundview (enable Hybrid-Crossfire)

[Martin Reiche]

Binary package hint: linux-image-generic

In order to use Hybrid-Crossfire with Windows I have to enable surroundview in BIOS. But if I enable surroundview and start Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64) I get a kernel panic.
So: I have two graphic-adapters in my machine (onboard and discrete hd 3470) in order to use Hybrid-Crossfire. It doesn't matter which card I set as primary adapter in BIOS as long as I not enable surroundview. Without surroundview both cards will work with linux. If I choose the onboard-graphic it will work (discrete card still in machine but disabled because sourroundview is not enabled)) and if I choose the discrete card it will also work (as long as surroundview is not enabled).
Ubuntu itself has all updates.
Maybe someone can help?

If I try to use the 8.10 live-DVD I get a kernel panic too. It doesn't matter if the DVD contains the i386- or the amd64-image.

Hmmm... to get this straight: I would like to use Hybrid-Crossfire in Ubuntu but I know that it does not work. So at the moment I would be happy if Linux would just start and doesn't do a kernel panic :-)
If more infos are needed: just ask for it :-)

[Zachary Dea (zdea)]

I also have this issue with 780g based ECS a780gm-a motherboard and an ATI 3450 gpu. On a side note I have recently upgraded my bios and I think that prior to doing so it may not have caused a kernel panic in 8.04. I would be happy to help test any solutions to this issue.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

I took a photo form my monitor as it is the only thing I think I can do at the moment. Maybe it helps even it surely is only a small part oft the kernel panic message.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

Oh. Forgot to mention that I downloaded the 9.04 Alpha 1 alternate CD-Image and the problem is the same.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

I did some further testing in trying different Live-CDs. Results:
- Opensuse 11.0 Live-CD: kernel panic with surroundview enabled in BIOS.
- Ubuntu 8.04.1 Live-CD: kernel panic with surroundview enabled in BIOS.
but
- Knoppix 5.1 Live-CD: NO kernel panic with surroundview enabled in BIOS!
So with a kernel 2.6.19 (Knoppix) it seems to run without kernel panic.

I hope that helps.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

Further testing:
I added acpi=off to grub in Ubuntu 8.10 and: No kernel panic! So... what to do know? Does that mean that this is no kernel-problem but instead an ACPI-problem?

[Zachary Dea (zdea)]

Any one contact you about this Martin? I wonder how long it takes people to assign/notice that this issue has been logged.

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

I compiled the latest stable kernel and the problem still persists.
So my question is: what can I do so someone will look at the problem? I read at kernel.org that it would be helpfull to compile kernel with serial-console support and that one can even use a parport-printer to send the output from screen to. I have a parport-printer but no idea how to set it up to work with serial-console. So maybe someone can help?
The bug was also reported here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12352
It looks like it does not help to send pictures of what one can see on screen so it may be helpfull to set up this serial-console-thing but how?

[Martin Reiche (grimsrud)]

Problem seems to be fixed in Ubuntu 9.04 :-)
How to close this report?

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This is not a bug in the linux-meta package, moving to the linux package.

[Jim Lieb (lieb)]

This bug was fixed in Jaunty with the patch for bug #292619. If this is not the case after testing with current Jaunty updates or Karmic, please file a new bug against the latest, still failing kernel.