random crashes with free driver, but not fglrx (ATI Radeon HD 4350)

[Greg A]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

ATI Radeon HD 4350 Graphics. Under Lucid.

The crashes happen with no warning and nothing I can see in the logs (but I wouldn't really know what to look for and where). The screen goes blank and audio playing (in Banshee) loops a few seconds worth.

Since changing to the fglrx non-free driver I have had no such crashes. The crashes started after updates on the 10th April.

There is a forum thread, however there appears to be a number of different issues there.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1450961

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 12 11:35:17 2010
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.723.1, 2.6.32-20-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100217)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell DXP061
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-20-generic root=UUID=6136e36a-180b-4aec-9e52-a9cb5f7a3c68 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
dmi.bios.date: 11/22/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.5.3
dmi.board.name: 0WG855
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.5.3:bd11/22/2007:svnDellInc.:pnDellDXP061:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0WG855:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Dell DXP061
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-20-generic

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

Please note my current logs will show I am using fglrx. But the issue is in the free drivers.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This bug report was not filed properly. Attachments provided were for -fglrx rather than -ati, and issue was described as a crash but no backtrace was provided.]

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

Just for the record I am not (correctly) refiling this bug because it appears to be fixed now.