[6480g A4 APU] Display Shuts off when running any fullscreen game in wine.

[Matthew]

With the latest catalyst driver from AMD all games run on wine are impossible to start. The whole backlight and everything shuts off. Amd Radeon 6480g A4 APU.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic-pae 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell,dbus]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Fri Mar 30 16:10:53 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-21-generic-pae root=UUID=0df0e4c6-9840-498d-941d-2e7215202c9d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.45
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 169B
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 18.1A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 5CG2110HSB
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.45:bd12/21/2011:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliong6NotebookPC:pvr0690130000204610000620100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn169B:rvrKBCVersion18.1A:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 0690130000204610000620100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu8
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

"everything shuts off" suggests a crash, but there's no evidence of such a thing in the logs you provided.

Elaborate your description so we understand what problem you're seeing. Exactly what steps do you do, and what are the specific results?

[Matthew (ruinairas1992)]

To reproduce the problem you can use a AMD Graphics Card (Not sure if it's the APU series only or not) install the graphics driver as you normally would, restart the computer. If you are lucky you will get into Ubuntu, or in some cases it will get stuck at "Checking Battery State". If you did get into Ubuntu and install wine try to run any game, I myself tried Scarface (It started off normally, but when the actual game begins it crashes) after that I noticed most games wont even start at all. They all work on my computer with a Nvidia Geforce 8400gs so I know it's something to do with the AMD Drivers.

[Filip (wattos-o)]

Im running into a very similar issue. Im trying to use Wine to play any of these games:

- Left 4 Dead 2 (this game I somehow managed to run once)
- Mass effect 2
- Mass effect 3
- Fifa 12

All of these games start and "run" with the open source drivers. The performance of the open source drivers is not good enough. After installing the ATI propriety drivers (I tried the range 11.12 - 12.3) the games crash on start up and have to be killed. Some games manage to run the intro e.g.
- Left 4 Dead 2 shows the menu and crashes during loading
- Mass effect 2/3 crashes on start up
- Fifa 12 crashes after the language selection dialog.

It seems something goes wrong with the ati driver and wine. Could you please tell me which logs should be appeneded?

Note: Im running this on 12.4 Kubuntu.