Once installing ATI drivers in Radeon HD3200, the screen not longer turns off

[Victor Marin]

Once installed the privative ATI drivers, the screen not longer turns-off despite it's so set up after a specific time of not activity (it only still works the screensaver).

Hardware: Laptop HP 6735b, AMD TurionX2 Ultra ZM80, 2Gb / 160Gb, ATI Radeon HD3200.
Software: Ubuntu 9.04.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi vms368,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`, and attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (and maybe Xorg.0.log.old) file from after reproducing this issue. If you've made any customizations to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please attach that as well.

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[Victor Marin (vms368)]

Hi Bryce,

And sorry for the late response.

Here goes the requested output for lspci -vvnn, while I attach you the Xorg.0.log, Xorg.0.log.old and /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

~$ lspci -vvnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30e3]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 64
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
 Memory behind bridge: 96300000-964fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000080000000-000000008fffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:9604]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
 Memory behind bridge: 95200000-962fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090000000-0000000090ffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
 Memory behind bridge: 94200000-951fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000091000000-0000000091ffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (...

[Victor Marin (vms368)]

Hello,

I've installed the recently updated ati-driver-installer-9-5-x86.x86_64.run and this problem is gone. Now, the screen turns-off as expected.

So, this problem was originated from the previous ATI drivers, instead from Ubuntu.

Indeed, as far as I know, Ubuntu 9.04 works like a Swiss clock and it is -finally- the default entry in my GRUB bootloader.

Regards,
Victor

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -fglrx driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get fglrx 8.620 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Victor Marin (vms368)]

Hi Bryce,
And Thanks for your reply with new fglrx.

But, as I said, I installed the updated ATI drivers from its website and the problem was solved. It seems
that it was not a Ubuntu problem.

Otherwise, some time later I had an unrecoverable crash waking up the laptop. I've filed a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/390827).

Finally, I had to format the HD and re-install the OS. This time I've installed Kubuntu 9.04.

Kind Regards,
Victor Marin

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Ah okay, thanks for letting us know the issue is resolved.