glxinfo and fglrxinfo both hang

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

mesa-utils:
  Installed: 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 7.0.3~rc2-1ubuntu3

xorg-driver-fglrx:
  Installed: 1:7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.16-23.56
  Candidate: 1:7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.16-23.56

When I run glxinfo, it displays one line of output and then hangs indefinitely:

    exarkun@boson:~$ glxinfo
    name of display: :0.0

^C can interrupt it. Similarly, fglrxinfo displays no output and hangs indefinitely. It can also be interrupted by ^C.

lspci has this to say about my video card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R600 [Radeon HD 2900 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at fe8e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fe8c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
                Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
                Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
                Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
                Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                Device: RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Port 0
                Link: Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch-
                Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x16
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000

X is configured to use the fglrx driver on two heads and xinerama is enabled.

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

Once I switched from Xinerama to "Big Desktop", these tools began to work (as did other GL applications). I'm not sure if that makes this an invalid or a wont-fix ticket.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Official support for Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" has ended. If this issue still occurs on Ubuntu 21.04 please run ubuntu-bug to file a new bug report so that we can get a fresh set of log files and system info.