After resumnig from sleep, playing videos doesn't work

[zzarko]

This started a few weeks ago, after some update I guess. When my machine resumes from sleep, if I try to play video in any player I have installed (vlc, smplayer, totem), all I get for a picture is a black screen. Sound is going, just there is no picture. I can get very flickering and unwatchable picture if I choose some OpenGL-based renderer (in smplayer). Sometimes, if I turn on or off second monitor, playing works for a while. The only way to enable playback is to restart X (logout/login or computer restart), which is geting quite tiresome because I need to close all my programs and open them again.

I'm not sure if this is xorg, Unity or driver bug, but it really bugs me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-45.74-generic 3.13.11-ckt13
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-45-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Feb 3 19:51:32 2015
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DpkgLog:

ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280] [1002:679a] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:0424]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-02 (185 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
LightdmGreeterLog:
 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:9174): WARNING **: Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/lubuntu/wallpapers/lubuntu-default-wallpaper.png': No such file or directory

 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:9174): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/zzarko/.face': No such file or directory
LightdmGreeterLogOld:
 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1810): WARNING **: Failed to load background: Failed to open file '/usr/share/lubuntu/wallpapers/lubuntu-default-wallpaper.png': No such file or directory

 ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1810): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/zzarko/.face': No such file or directory
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-45-generic root=UUID=b677df99-e917-4360-b8b5-13b8db6712cf ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/08/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.00
dmi.board.name: Z68 Extreme4 Gen3
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.00:bd07/08/2011:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnZ68Extreme4Gen3:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20141104-0ubuntu1
version.fglrx-installer: fglrx-installer N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.56-1~ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Feb 3 19:48:59 2015
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:
 AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
 AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
 AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.6
xserver.video_driver: fglrx

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

I updated the BIOS today, please give me a few days for testing.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

Besides fancier icons in BIOS, the only visible change is that wired network card isn't working after wake-up. I tried a couple of times, same thing (ifconfig lists only lo after wake-up). Also, now, trying logout and login after that locks up the system (at least I can Ctrl+Alt+Del from terminal).

As this is much worse problem than being unable to play videos (at least, for me), I'll try to revert BIOS to previous version. Also, most of my video material is on a network storage, so non-working network card can't be a solution.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

Hmm, besides "We don’t recommend users to update the BIOS if their system is already running normally" (which I have read before upgrading), the official site also says "Please only flash newer versions of BIOS in the future". Also, version of BIOS that I had isn't available for download. Now what?

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

My internal sound card also doens't work anymore...

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

I found a fix for network and sound card. There have been several kernel updates in the past week or two, but all things combined gave nothing to initial problem.

After resume from suspend, videos often show just black, with sound playing (using xv output). gl output gives picture but it flickers all the time between video picture and black screen. This is the same for mplayer, totem and vlc. The only video output that usually work when all do not is x11 without xv.

Additionally, when this starts to happen, Google Chrome browser window is flickering like mad, and becomes unusable. The same happens with Steam client. The only solution so far is to restart X (either logout/login or restart computer). But this defeats the purpose of going to sleep...

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

Sorry, I forgot to include that, here is the output:
P2.30
06/29/2012

[penalvch (penalvch)]

zzarko, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the result?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

As I'm using catalyst drivers and they aren't included in the image, I guess, is there a way to install them and run them solely from the live environment? And since this is my work machine also, I don't think that I would stray from LTS for now.

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

In the last month, almost after each update, the system would behave differently. Sometimes I could go through several sleep/resume cycles without hitting the bug, sometimes it occurs every time after resume from sleep (which is the current situation).

[zzarko (zzarko-gmail)]

Two weeks ago I switched from Unity to Gnome Classic (with Metacity) because this got too annoying for me, and for now I didn't encounter the video bug. But, more testing is needed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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