Freeze on X startup with Mobility Radeon HD 3650

[Mathias Weyland]

I installed fglrx 8.600 using jockey on a current jaunty 32bit installation. After shutting the system down and starting the laptop (hp elitebook 8530p) again, I get a black screen instead if GDMs login screen. The laptop freezes; it's not even possible to log in via ssh from remote. I tried to alter xorg.conf using aticonfig, but I keep getting this black screen.

Graphics card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic

I'm attaching my xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, kernel.log and messages (something seems to happen with the kernel module) of a failed attempt.

Side note: This black screen appeared with every fglrx release from ati.com released after Intrepid. (I didn't try those before). The only release working on this laptop I know of is the "beta" (or whatever this was, for 1.5 ABI compatibility) release for Intrepid. Thus I'm also adding an Xorg.0.log from my working Intrepid setup. Of course, this is with a different fglrx version.

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

I found these maybe-related bug reports on phoronix and in the Unofficial ATI Linux Driver Bugzilla:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15215
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

I tried it on amd64 - same problem. I installed alpha6, upgraded all of the packages, ran jockey, installed the proposed driver, shut the computer down and started it again and ran into the very same black screen.

[Michaël Vanderheeren (michael-vanderheeren)]

Duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usplash/+bug/346028

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

Hello Michael

I don't agree that this is a dup of #346028 because of mismatching symptoms. However, it's none of my business how duplicates are handled and I'm leaving it up to the maintainers.

However, I'm quite confident that this is a duplicated of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/346372

And just for the record: The problem is described here as well:
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15082

[Mathias Weyland (launchpad-weyland)]

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. I was referring to this bug instead:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/314600

In my opinion, this bug should either be marked as duplicate of #314600 or #314600 should be somehow linked to this group of bugs (which I don't agree with, as stated above).

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

I agree that this is a dup of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/314600 and NOT of https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346028 to which this is currently linked.