Xorg freeze
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Neither the proprietery nor the open source driver work well for my ATI graphics card.
The OS driver is the better choice, as it crashes about twice a day and that's it ...
Crashes = strange patterns filling the screen plus X crashing (Keyboard combinations don't have effect anymore I think ... tried to quit my code editor with alt+f4 which should have closed all sourcefiles I was working on, still some of them were scrambled after reboot)
The proprietary driver works well for some time, then brings on all kinds of artifacts, displaying old (buffered) parts of windows where they aren't etc., for example on mouse scrolling ... unusable really
The Troubleshooting guide says something to check and by trial n error fix this in the BIOS by trying all AGP APERTURE SIZE settings ... well, I ain't got no AGP, I got the new stuff (ahemmm ... forget the name ...)
Also, I read it doesn't work with the new kernel of Ubuntu Wily ... so I guess I'm in luck I switched back in time.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-lowlatency x86_64
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnred
CompositorUnred
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 26 12:42:14 2015
DistUpgraded: 2015-10-23 23:59:32,729 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: wily
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingI
GpuHangFrequency: Several times a day
GpuHangReproduc
GpuHangStarted: Since before I upgraded
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X/360] [1002:6658] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:7260]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-21 (338 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
MachineType: ASUS All Series
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
SystemImageInfo: Error: command ['system-
Title: Xorg freeze
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-24 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/13/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2001
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: H97I-PLUS
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: All Series
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Mon Oct 26 12:28:10 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
xserver.
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Johannes Neugschwentner, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
As per https:/ /www.asus. com/Motherboard s/H97IPLUS/ HelpDesk_ Download/ an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2604). If you update to this following https:/ /help.ubuntu. com/community/ BIOSUpdate does it change anything?
If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https:/ /help.ubuntu. com/community/ ReportingBugs# Bug_reporting_ etiquette .
Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.
Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New. Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.
Thank you for your understanding.