Fglrx regressions

[sourchier]

Binary package hint: fglrx

The standard fglrx driver in Lucid works OK, at least for a while. When trying to play a 3D game the entire box hangs. I can restart the computer using the magic Screen alt + printscreen + (X, S, E, U, I, K, B) keys. Before installing the driver I can mount USB sticks and USB hard disks automatically. However, after the fglrx install, I can only mount them by hand. In Jaunty the hypermemory for my card worked however it is no longer being detected. I checked the logs, and it seems that these hangs are leaving no error information.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 12 10:02:55 2010
DkmsStatus: fglrx, 8.723.1, 2.6.32-22-generic-pae, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA770T-UD3P
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic-pae root=UUID=6413e46f-534b-4a4e-bae3-40ebad267503 ro nomodeset quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
dmi.bios.date: 04/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F7
dmi.board.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF7:bd04/14/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA770T-UD3P:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA770T-UD3P:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-MA770T-UD3P
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic-pae

[sourchier (sourchier)]

I „fixed“ the crashes for a little while with changing to the open source radeon driver. It ran almost perfectly however with all the artifacts and undrawn shadows it was unplayable.

A few days later I cobbled together a fix.

Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
 Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
 Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
 Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "glx"
 Load "dri"
 Load "drm"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
 Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
 Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Driver "fglrx"
 Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
 Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS"
 Option "NoRandR"
 Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
 Option "UseFastTLS" "2"
 Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
 Option "mtrr" "off"
 Option "no_accel" "no"
 Option "DRI"
 Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no"
 Option "backingstore" "true"
 Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
 Option "BusType" "PCI"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
 Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 DefaultDepth 24
 SubSection "Display"
  Viewport 0 0
  Depth 24
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
 Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
 Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

grub.conf

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset vga=795 iommu=noaperture"

And this worked for a few hours until it hung again. I have already also done a memory test and a hard disk test. (Using „memtest“ and „MHDD“ respectively) Everything seems to be in order but my box still locks up.

[sourchier (sourchier)]

Purging the fglrx driver and installing the 10.2 drivers for my card fixes this. I now only need vga=795 and nomodeset to be end the hanging. I wish that ubuntu could do this out of the box.