Screen keeps blinking after boot up

Bug #1069064 reported by Ashish
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned
xorg (openSUSE)
Won't Fix
High

Bug Description

Hi,

I tried installing ubuntu quantal on my acer 5002 laptop with sis card. But on boot from usb screen keeps flickering with only mouse pointer shows up on whole screen.

I tried xubuntu as well and result is same.
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: i386
DistroCodename: precise
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
Package: xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
Tags: precise ubuntu
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
UnreportableReason: Please work this issue through technical support channels first.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected precise ubuntu
description: updated
bugbot (bugbot)
tags: added: xubuntu
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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

Just tried Ubuntu 12.04.2 and the the same problem occurs there, though in 12.04 this issue was non existent.

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

I spent time in downloading xubuntu raring beta 2 over 4kbps line and result is same. Is there anyone who cares abiut it? Or is becoming Microsoft who don't care about old hardware and want users to buy new hardware even if they have to sell there kidbeys for it?

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → New
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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

Now I tried openSUSE 12.3 and same issue crops up there. It surely looks like a kernel bug to me now in driver for sis graphics card.

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In , Ashish (ashishyadav21) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/25.0.1364.160 Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22

Hi,

I tried installing openSUSE 12.3 on my acer 5002 laptop with sis card. But on boot after install screen keeps flickering with only mouse pointer shows up on whole screen nad switches between console screen.

The same bug is in Ubuntu as well

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1069064

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openSUSE 12.3
2. Reboot
3.
Actual Results:
No desktop comes up but screen keeps switching between modes of console and xorg

Expected Results:
Desktop should come up.

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In , Ashish (ashishyadav21) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=535551)
Video showing the screen blinking after boot

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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

Video uploaded at open SUSE website showing screen blinking. All Ubuntu versions mentioned in this bug shows the same behavior.

http://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=535551

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In , Sndirsch-u (sndirsch-u) wrote :

Apparently sis driver no longer works. You could uninstall xf86-video-sis package so X falls back to fbdev or vesa driver.

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In , Ashish (ashishyadav21) wrote :

Yes after removing xf86-video-sis it did showed up the desktop. But it's not coming in proper resolution.

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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

I tried removing xserver-xorg-video-sis from live usb but it failed. Still after that a switch to ctrl+alt+f7 did showed the desktop in basic resolution.

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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :

It's a clear indication that the bug is in sis driver, but is it going to be fixed?

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In , Ashish (ashishyadav21) wrote :

It's a clear indication that the bug is in sis driver, but is it going to be fixed?

Changed in xorg (openSUSE):
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → In Progress
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In , Sndirsch-u (sndirsch-u) wrote :

I don't know, which resolution your panel needs. It might be possible to chose the right framebuffer mode. Try this

# hwinfo --framebuffer

Use the appropriate mode hexnumber (16bit mode recommended) as vga boot parameter.

Example:
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits

--> vga=0x317

To be honest:
It's unlikely this ever been fixed. Nobody is still working on the sis driver upstream, the SiS company is no longer active in this area, and the driver is no
longer building against the latest Xserver.

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In , Ashish (ashishyadav21) wrote :

Thanks for help, I tried vga= but got message that it is deprecated. Using gfxpayload did helped a lot.

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Ashish, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xorg <replace-with-bug-number>

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :
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In , Sndirsch-u (sndirsch-u) wrote :

Product is no longer supported. In case the issue is still reproducable on a maintainerd product (at that momement: openSUSE 13.1 or later), feel free to reopen.

Changed in xorg (openSUSE):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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