ATI Xpress 200M full-screen corruption

[Vasily]

Binary package hint: xorg

After installing the recent updates to Maverick, I can no longer get working display, only full-screen corruption. At August 22nd everything worked ok, so it looks like the problem is caused by the updates installed at August 23rd.

The only thing that shows normally is the mouse pointer.

== Regression details ==
Discovered in version: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu2
Last known good version: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-1ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17.23-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1024x768 800x600 848x480 720x480 640x480
 edid-base64: AP///////wAyDAAAAAAAAAAPAQKAHhZ4CnSwlldUiyglUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZBkAQEEAJjAYiDYAMOQQAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gBMR1BoaWxpcHNMQ0QKAAAA/gBMUDE1MFgwOC1UTEEyALI=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Tue Aug 24 09:15:38 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 062a:0102 Creative Labs Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Combo [MK1152WC]
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c518 Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite L100
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-17-generic root=UUID=1f376818-23c9-47bb-83fb-f78085068bd2 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 01/11/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V3.20
dmi.board.name: Satellite L100
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV3.20:bd01/11/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteL100:pvrPSLA3E-02S01CRU:rvnTOSHIBA:rnSatelliteL100:rvrNotApplicable:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite L100
dmi.product.version: PSLA3E-02S01CRU
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.35-17-generic

[Vasily (vasily-aa)]

Attaching a photo of the screen.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Is it still an issue with the final version of maverick ?

[Eugene (gene-81)]

I have the same problem with my notebook with an ATI Xpress 200M videocard. The only difference is - my screen corruptions are coloured.
Sometimes I see this bug when I am watching a video with an Gnome MPlayer and switching to another window (or just moving a cursor), sometimes it happens when I use a Firefox with a flash and with NoScript turned on. Sometimes this bug happens as soon as I log in. So, I don't know the reason of it and I can't tell you the steps to reproduce this issue.

Ubuntu 10.10 amd64, updated from 10.04 LTS. All available updates are installed, including the latest video drivers from Ubuntu x-swat PPA.

[Eugene (gene-81)]

One other thing - when this bug happens, I can switch to another terminal (by Ctrl+Alt+F1, for example). So, I can kill a process from there. Sometimes I have to kill a Firefox, sometimes - a video player. After that I get a working system with no screen corruptions. Until the next time, unfortunately.

[czatan (dplucinski)]

Sorry for my bad English
I also have a ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] on a laptop and have the same troubles.
However, as I turn the additional effects that require efficient desktop graphics cards still have about 60 FPS on the current desktop. If he switches to the second desktop is my card gets a "kick" and I have about 1200 FPS. I'm waiting, maybe someone will get the idea to the contrary.

The same problem encountered on Fedora 14th

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Vasily, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-ati REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]