xorg.conf overwritten by booting system
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Alberto Milone | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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High
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Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
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== SRU Request ==
There is a regression in the gpu-manager that causes it to revert user changes right before the first reboot after enabling the fglrx driver or the nvidia driver on a system with hybrid graphics (Intel+AMD or Intel+NVIDIA). This causes the gpu-manager to remove the current xorg.conf and to switch to Mesa.
[Impact]
* This regression makes it almost impossible to use binary drivers on systems with hybrid graphics.
[Test Case]
* Make sure to be using a hybrid system with Intel+AMD or Intel+NVIDIA GPUs.
* Make sure that the gpu-manager is not disabled (only necessary if you disabled it manually).
* Remove all fglrx and nvidia drivers (keep the nvidia-common and the nvidia-prime packages):
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-331
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-331
sudo apt-get --purge remove fglrx
sudo apt-get --purge remove fglrx-updates
* Install ubuntu-
* Restart the system.
* Install the binary driver (either fglrx or nvidia, according to the available discrete GPU), reboot, and check that the binary driver is enabled (attach your /var/log/
- Expected: the (AMD or NVIDIA) discrete GPU is enabled.
- Bad behavior: the system switches back to the intel driver and the discrete GPU is not used, despite the fact that the system was configured properly.
[Regression Potential]
* Low. Systems that currently work will keep working as usual, the ones that currently fail should finally work.
[Other Info]
* N/A
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Hello,
I am using a notebook with a quadcore AMD A10 and hybrid graficcard AMD/ATI Radeon HD 8650G / AMD/ATI Sun XT Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M.
After installing fglrx I generated the xorg.conf in the terminal with 'sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial' and it looked pretty good. Up to this point I was able to switch between the cards with the commands 'sudo aticonfig --px-dgpu' for the discrete card and 'sudo aticonfig --px-igpu' for the intigrated card to save power.
After rebooting I realized that I was no longer able to switch between the cards and found that the xorg.conf will be overwritten whenever I modified it and reboot the system. The new (by boot) generated xorg.conf contains not the relevant information for switing between the cards.
I attached both configuration in one file (xorg.conf.
Edit: I fixed the error --> "AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/
Regards,
Uwe
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 21 08:43:29 2014
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 13.350.1, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Richland [Radeon HD 8650G] [1002:990b] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1985]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1985]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-20 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/26/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde
dmi.bios.version: F.22
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 1985
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 01.13
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+
version.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Mon Apr 21 08:29:06 2014
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:
open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/
AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
xserver.
no longer affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Milone (albertomilone) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | removed: ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Please find attched the ati system info generated by ' sh /usr/share/ fglrx/atigetsys teminfo. sh'.