compiz/DRI crashes on Xpress200M/AMD64 [1002:5975]

[der_vegi]

Binary package hint: xorg

When I boot the live CD, everything works fine till the login screen. There I hit enter to login, but after loading several seconds, X crashes and after a black screen (one second or so) I get back to the login. When I just leave the computer, it tries to login after 30 seconds, crashing, trying to login again... Sometimes I see gnome's menu bar for a second.

I cannot even change to tty, I still see the frozen login screen until I go back to tty9 hitting "strg + alt + f9". Shutting down the computer works fine, too.

I am using a Dell Inspiron 1501 with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M and Athlon64 using amd64 architecture.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Could you attach the output of 'lspci -vvnn'?

[der_vegi (m-may)]

'lspci -vvnn' gives me (on my Feisty)

[der_vegi (m-may)]

If this informations helps: I have already noticed this behaviour in 20070914, but then I thought it was due to the burning errors because of the ISO being bigger than my disc.

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Still there on Gutsy daily-live 20070929. Sometimes I can even get a glimpse on the background image...

Using Gnome-failsafe session works, though. But when I shut down the computer, I cannot see the message telling me to press "Enter" to halt.

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Here are the logs.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This sounds like compiz causing a DRI crash. Try disabling "Desktop effects" or add
 Option "DRI" "off"
to the Device section of xorg.conf

However I also saw some garbage in your log:
II) RADEON(0): v_active: 800 v_sync: 802 v_sync_end 808 v_blanking: 823 v_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): CD516154W01
(II) RADEON(0): .>LWz折


(II) RADEON(0): EDID (in hex):

[der_vegi (m-may)]

The garbage seems to be normal, as it is exactly the same in my Feisty installation.

Adding "DRI" "off" does the trick, I can now login with a normal Gnome session. However, the Desktop panels don't appear, I can only see the "Install" and "Examples" icons. The X session is now not on tty9 any more but on tty7 and I can also see the message telling me to press enter when I shut down the computer.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

compiz ought to be blacklisted on your card (ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5975]).

For the missing panels, this can be the bug where gnome picks the screen size from a not-existing screen. Can you attach the output from
 xrandr --verbose
please?

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Okay, here the output. This time I saw the panels, but didn't see the shutdown-message.

Compiz is blacklisted for my card? Some months ago I got it working under Feisty, but deactivated it again after a while...

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

You had compiz working, using the ati driver?

[der_vegi (m-may)]

Yeah. Using the driver from the ATI website.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Well, the driver from the ATI Inc. web site is the "fglrx" closed-source driver. I meant the open-source "ati" (radeon) driver.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

I had a similar problem on my HP Compaq nx 6325 - livecd crashed and repeatedly got back to login screen.
The workaround was using safe graphics mode.

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 30b0
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
        Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 6000 [size=256]
        Region 2: Memory at d4300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at d4320000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

I guess all Radeon Xpress IGP should be added to blacklist.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Przemysław, can you please give the output from:
 lspci -vvnn|grep "VGA compatible"

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] [1002:5975] (prog-if 00 [VGA])

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

And I have a 32-bit Ubuntu, even though I have a 64-bit CPU (Turion X2)

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

I keep looking at those PCI IDs: do the RS485 and RS482 share the same ID? Anyone knows the difference between them?

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Like in bug #139241, which probably is the same issue, it seems that the PCI ID names have been updated.