ubuntu karmic beta - ATI video failure on boot with kernel 2.6.31-13

[Jim Leinweber]

keyboard still can do CTRL-ATL-F1 & CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, but we don't get any sensible video in either X or VTY modes.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jiml 1956 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xf8700000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200 HDA:10ec0268,1179ff0a,00100003'
   Controls : 13
   Simple ctrls : 8
Date: Sun Oct 11 23:56:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=432c60c1-3881-4942-8860-9544153fb858
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite A215
Package: linux-generic 2.6.31.13.24
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=05901643-0aa2-4cf2-bd9e-649e5ccb464c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.21
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:

XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1990): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1990): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2137): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2124): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 1.80
dmi.board.name: SB600
dmi.board.vendor: ATI
dmi.board.version: Rev 1
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: AMD
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr1.80:bd08/04/2008:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteA215:pvrPSAFGU-05F01D:rvnATI:rnSB600:rvrRev1:cvnAMD:ct1:cvrNone:
dmi.product.name: Satellite A215
dmi.product.version: PSAFGU-05F01D
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Jim Leinweber (jiml-mail)]

ATI Video OK with kernel 2.6.31-11.38; fails with; fails with 2.6.31-13 updated on Friday 2009-Oct-09. I'll try to correct the title.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Which video driver are you using on your system? The open source ati driver or the proprietary fglrx driver? Thanks in advance.

[Jim Leinweber (jiml-mail)]

Booting Karmic on the Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic kernel with working video, karmic beta is using the Xorg driver.
Excerpted from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:
-------------------------------
...
II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.6.3, module version = 6.12.99
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.6.3, module version = 6.12.99
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets:
        ATI Radeon Mobility X600 (M24) 3150 (PCIE), ATI FireMV 2400 (PCI),
        ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M24) 3152 (PCIE),
...
------------------------------

lspci -vv shows:
------------------------------
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
 Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1a
 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: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
 Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 Region 2: Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Region 4: I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
 Region 5: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: radeon
-----------------------

So I'm going to nominate this as a real regression.

[Jim Leinweber (jiml-mail)]

The xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5 version installed 2009-10-13 seems to fix the regression. I get video on both the 2.6.28-13.45 kernel from last week, and the 2.6.31-14.46 kernel from this week.

[Jim Leinweber (jiml-mail)]

Sorry, make that the 2.6.31-13.45 kernel from last week (cut & paste error by me from some dpkg -l output).