Display artefacts with Radeon 7200 graphics card

[Radim Luža]

Release: Ubuntu 11.10
Card type: Radeon 7200
Xorg driver: r100

Sometime appears a corruption in drawed windows. It looks like a color noise. In dmesg there also appears following message multiple times:

[ TIMESTAMP] APPLICATION:PID freeing invalid memtype HEX_NUMBER_FROM-HEX_NUMBER_TO

Example of such messages:
[ 6530.755570] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f4272000-f4282000
[ 6530.755601] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f4282000-f4292000
[ 6530.755633] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f4292000-f42a2000
[ 6530.755665] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42a2000-f42b2000
[ 6530.755697] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42b2000-f42c2000
[ 6530.755728] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42c2000-f42d2000
[ 6530.755760] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42d2000-f42e2000
[ 6530.755792] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42e2000-f42f2000
[ 6530.755823] unity_support_t:15451 freeing invalid memtype f42f2000-f4302000

Installed hardware:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 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 Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
03:0a.0 Communication controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp (w/Handset) Modem (rev 01)
03:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
03:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
03:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
03:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08)

With NVidia Quadro NVS 140M on different compter this issue doesn't appear.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can you please run in a terminal
apport-collect 943253
Thanks
fabio
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[Radim Luža (radimluza)]

Of course. During weekend I will post it here. I realized that I forgot the 'nomodeset' option appended to kernel parameter list. When I removed it, 'freeing invalid memtype' message doesn't seem to appear. And corruption appears less frequently, but it still sometimes appears.

[Radim Luža (radimluza)]

Hmm... apport-collect gives me following exception:

test@zvejk:~$ apport-collect 943253
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-cli", line 416, in <module>
    if not app.run_argv():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 570, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 421, in run_update_report
    if not self.crashdb.can_update(self.options.update_report):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 471, in can_update
    bug = self.launchpad.bugs[id]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py", line 950, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 943253

It's the same when I lauch apport-collect under sudo. This exception is probably not the output you need. How should I call apport-collect to get correct output? Sorry about inconvenience.

[Radim Luža (radimluza)]

I could't solve the problem witch apport-collect. Is there any other way to provide you necessary informations?

[Radim Luža (radimluza)]

Ok - which informations do you need? I can probably gather them manually.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Radim Luža (radimluza)]

Hm, it is difficult to maintain this bug active when there is almost no communication from developers :-(