[X1400] "[fglrx] ASIC hang happened" - crash on switching to AC power

[Upayavira]

Intermittently, plugging power into my laptop crashes it, with the screen being corrupted (best described as all pixels on the screen moving a few to the left or right).

I have attached a snippet from /var/log/messages which seems relevant.

This is on a Thinkpad T60 running Ubuntu 8.10, 32 bit.

uname -a says:
Linux urgyen 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 15 11:03:58 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Linux-restricted-modules is at 2.6.27.7.11.

Let me know if there is anything else I should provide.

Upayavira

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2015]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 [1002:7145]
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:2006]

[Lars Gjesse (larsgjesse)]

I think this is the same problem as described in the forum:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6301778

I had the same problem on my Thinkpad T60, but the suggested solution did not work for me. Instead, the command:

sudo aticonfig --acpi-services=off

helps.

I have reported a bug (#312735) for the same problem.
I wonder if this problem only exists on Thinkpads?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi uv,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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[Upayavira (uv)]

Can't see how it might be relevant - my battery was at 31% capacity. I've just replaced it with a new one. Don't know if that is in any way.

[dead bear (fireescapefire)]

I have the same problem, on a machine with that yields the same lspci info.......

If it helps, In my syslog file these lines always occur together and only with the hang, which follows immediately mostly, but sometimes as late as [ 78.712010].......

Jan 28 19:29:13 dea kernel: [ 47.899724] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
Jan 28 19:29:13 dea kernel: [ 47.899733] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:7fb7000, size:44000
Jan 28 19:29:13 dea kernel: [ 47.899736] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:7ffb000, size:5000
Jan 28 19:29:14 dea kernel: [ 48.711630] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason b1 on CPU 0.
Jan 28 19:29:14 dea kernel: [ 48.711645] You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus.
Jan 28 19:29:14 dea kernel: [ 48.711650] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

The last three lines never happen on a successful boot.

[dead bear (fireescapefire)]

a complete example of several attempts example

[nathan (ferrisn)]

Same thing happening to me on a T60 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X1300. I'm running the latest version of the ATI drivers (8.58.2)

[nathan (ferrisn)]

Here's the relevant lines from /var/log/messages from when my machine hung after I plugged it in

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this bug about fglrx, however the video card mentioned in this bug report is no longer supported in fglrx. ATI only supports R600 and newer chips. You'll want to focus on using the -ati driver instead for this hardware.