3D-"company-owned"-ATI-driver used for ASUS AH3450

[hal_ifax]

Got an automatic crash-report, agreed to submit information to the developers, but really can't tell You, what went wrong . . .
(K)ubuntu 9.10 alfa6's X-server did NOT crash, when I activated Composit-Type "OpenGL" and 'effect for window-change'="3D-window-gallery" (sorry - translation from german setup), but so far, I didn't see any "Windows"-pile . . .

cheers
hal_ifax

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 30 15:17:51 2009
Disassembly: 0xd21d3f: Cannot access memory at address 0xd21d3f
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: kdeinit4:\ krunner\ [kdeinit]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: kde4libs
Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00d21d3f in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
 #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
 No symbol table info available.
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: kdeinit4 crashed with signal 7
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? ()
?? ()

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, apport's automatic crash report didn't yield the information required for us to properly handle this bug. Please go ahead and submit a new crash report if it crashes again with the latest available version of the package. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

'til now there was no other crash, but system is a bit unstable in a way:
My i865( with P4-2,8GHZ-HT) got a "TT-budget DVB-S2 3200"-pci-card, using
Kaffeine with it, sound, while receiving DVB-S2 channels(Eins Extra HD
showcase), is interrupted und vanishes sometimes. Restarting the PC I can be
lucky to enjoy Kubuntu-HD-TV with fluent picture- and sound-stream via INTEL-
sound-chip. (It's nearly like using XP's "DVB Viewer") - CPU-loads of No.0 and
No.1 reach to 100%, but not at a time.
After next restart things may have changed . . .

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE AGP [Radeon HD 3450]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
03:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)

Am Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009 14:14:24 schrieb Jonathan Thomas:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, apport's automatic crash report didn't yield the
> information required for us to properly handle this bug. Please go ahead
> and submit a new crash report if it crashes again with the latest
> available version of the package. Thanks in advance for your cooperation
> and understanding.
>
> ** Changed in: kde4libs (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The automatic report apport submitted was about a krunner crash. I guess we can change this into an xorg crash, but please don't assign me to bugs I'm not actually working on.

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

Dear Mr. Thomas,
I'm sorry for that.
I did not intend to give You any inconviniance. But, as You know, there still
is a lot of work to do for the (K)ubuntu-developers.
Thank You for Your efforts

Manfred Braas
Germany

Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 00:25:44 schrieben Sie:
> The automatic report apport submitted was about a krunner crash. I guess
> we can change this into an xorg crash, but please don't assign me to
> bugs I'm not actually working on.
>
> ** Package changed: kde4libs (Ubuntu) => fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
> Status: In Progress => New
>
> ** Changed in: fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) => (unassigned)

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

http://www.dvbviewer.info/forum/index.php?s=0aa93fabb890e20dbc6652bb59226844&showtopic=35482&st=15

http://forum.kubuntu-de.org/index.php?topic=12721.msg88940

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

manfred@P4:~/Dokumente$ grep -n MSI P4_fglrx_dmesg_2.6.31-13.45-generic
631:[ 19.582714] [fglrx] Could not enable MSI; System prevented initialization

. . . hopefully this is NOT

Micro
Soft
Interface

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

.

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.5&lang=English

. . . libamdxvba1_8.661-0ubuntu1_i386.deb is missing libstdc++5, which is NOT supported anyway !????
It's not installable for "unresolved dependencies" . . .

What a pity !

cheers

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

. . . but libstdc++6 exists, so

 sudo dpkg --force-depends --install ./libamdxvba1_8.661-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

does the job !?

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libstdc++5/download

 . . . perhaps should be integrated into the ubuntu-tree ?

After installation of libstdc++5, libamdxvba1 can be installed successfully.

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

. . . but does it work correctly?
As next I tried the "proprietary-driver" from AMD's web-site(latest version: Nov.4 2009):

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.5&lang=English

"sh ati-driver-installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic" compiles

fglrx-installer_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.changes
fglrx-modaliases_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
xorg-driver-fglrx_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
fglrx-amdcccle_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
fglrx-kernel-source_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
libamdxvba1_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
xorg-driver-fglrx-dev_8.671-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

If "Pulse-Audio"-sound is installed correctly and chosen as primary-HDMI-sound-device(system-settings -> Multimedia),
Kaffeine is able to display fluent DVB-S2-video(Eins Festival HD 1280x720) with at most times fully stopped HDMI-sound-stream(sound is NOT! muted via pulse-audio-mixer), but system is not locked by this anymore since CPU-load is "only" 70% in average now!!!
So using "Pulse-Audio" boosts system-performance, although there is no sound for my HD-TV yet, when watching DVB-S2.

Excerpt from current dmesg-output of P4-system:

[ 20.314707] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 20.387224] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1885 MBytes.
[ 20.387527] [fglrx] vendor: 1002 device: 95c6 count: 1
[ 20.388587] [fglrx] ioport: bar 1, base 0x3000, size: 0x100
[ 20.389435] [fglrx] Kernel PAT support is enabled
[ 20.389481] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.67.4 [Nov 4 2009] with 1 minors
[ 47.762595] [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f004a1b (hardware caps of chipset)
[ 47.762604] [fglrx] [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f004b1a
[ 47.762698] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
[ 47.762734] [fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f004312 (selected caps)
[ 47.778730] [fglrx] Setup AGP aperture
[ 47.934443] [fglrx] Could not enable MSI; System prevented initialization
[ 47.935538] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 2112
[ 49.625684] [fglrx] Gart cacheable size:875 M.
[ 49.625693] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
[ 49.625697] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:fe03000, size:1f8000
[ 49.625701] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:fffb000, size:5000
[ 1277.960273] [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f004a1b (hardware caps of chipset)
[ 1277.960282] [fglrx] [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f004b1a
[ 1277.960374] fglrx_pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode
[ 1277.960411] [fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f004312 (selected caps)
[ 1277.970257] [fglrx] Setup AGP aperture
[ 1278.127075] [fglrx] Firegl kernel thread PID: 8123
[ 1279.839342] [fglrx] Gart cacheable size:875 M.
[ 1279.839352] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, size:1000000
[ 1279.839356] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:fe03000, size:1f8000
[ 1279.839360] [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:fffb000, size:5000

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[hal_ifax (mmueller44)]

Installer no longer crashes, but vaapi-support is still not funktional for fglrx even with 'natty'.
. . . but where to put the tag for it ???

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Marking invalid, since Karmic is no longer supported and the error no longer occurs.