[intrepid] Xorg fails to start xserver-xorg-video-radeon (CD_INVALID_OPCODE)

[Artem Popov]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-radeon

Since I have fully updated my Intrepid system yesterday, Xorg did not start after a reboot.

The failsafe mode dialog showed up instead with the following message:
(EE) RADEON(0): ParseTable said: CD_INVALID_OPCODE

Reconfiguring X with the same dialog didn't help (X chooses "radeon" if not specified, anyway), but I managed to start X successfully with the experimental "radeonhd" driver after editing the configuration file.

I'm attaching the failsafeX-archive with current configuration and log, reproduced by specifying "radeon" again in the Device section. Hope this will get fixed, since I have little hope that proprietary driver will work in Intrepid, anyway.

My system is ASUS F3Ka laptop, equipped with Radeon Mobility HD 2600.
Earlier version of Intrepid have been running okay with the "radeon" driver for X.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you also attach the output of lspci on your computer? Thanks.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Here it is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Graphics Port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
08:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
08:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
08:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
08:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
08:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Set CRTC PLL success
Set CRTC Timing success
Not using RMX
scaler 0 setup success
Set CRTC 0 Source success
(EE) RADEON(0): ParseTable said: CD_INVALID_OPCODE
(II) RADEON(0): Query for AtomBIOS Exec: failed
Output DIG2 setup failed

Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x79) [0x80c3069]
1: [0xb7f85400]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a39d41]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a396be]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a38730]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a39928]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a3d51e]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a3af08]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a3b070]
9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a512c1]
10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a52304]
11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a32a38]
12: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86CrtcSetMode+0x5da) [0x80eb41a]
13: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SetDesiredModes+0x1af) [0x80eb7cf]
14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a15f12]
15: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(AddScreen+0x19f) [0x80713ef]
16: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(InitOutput+0x206) [0x80aa596]
17: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x279) [0x8071b89]
18: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7ba5685]
19: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8071171]
Saw signal 11. Server aborting.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Also noticed this warning in the above tarball:

(II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
(II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600" (ChipID = 0x9581)
(WW) RADEON(0): R600 support is mostly incomplete and very experimental

Also, debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472252 might be related to this somehow...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'm not sure 472252 is related, since that involves a configuration where both -ati and -radeonhd are used simultaneously, which is quite different from your config.

The next step for you is to collect a full backtrace. Directions for doing this are available at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing. That should give us a clearer view into where it's failing.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Hello!
Here's the backtrace, as collected by gdb with "logging on".

The following lines in the logfile appear before "backtrace full" command:

Starting program: /usr/bin/Xorg -keeptty -dumbSched
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7b7a6b0 (LWP 7204)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb7b7a6b0 (LWP 7204)]
0xb7ab56ef in CailWriteATIRegister (CAIL=0x8ea8990, idx=19789, data=3959875633)
    at ../../src/radeon_atombios.c:2061
2061 ../../src/radeon_atombios.c: No such file or directory.
 in ../../src/radeon_atombios.c

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

Hi, thank Артём Попов for this link to this bug ! (excuse me but i don't know how to pronounce your name :$ :shame:)

I've managed to start the desktop live cd by adding "Driver "radeonhd" in the xorg then by starting X "startx" !
So i didn't have the small popup that say to reconfigure xorg / xserver like in previous build ..(i used the 4th october one)... so as my linux knowledge are quite thin...i don't know how to report the xorg error!
But i can't past my "lspci" here:
<<<<
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
08:00.0 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller (rev 01)
09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
>>>>

My laptop isn't very different from yours ! I have a X53Sa (but the ...

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

The latest driver upgrade from yesterday (xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2)) does not fix this problem yet.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Here's another backtrace, now with the latest driver version. It looks like "gdb | tee" gives better output, than gdb's builtin logging...

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

And here's a stack trace as well.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hmm, the one change that occurred prior to your 9-23 update was a patch to enable dithering on certain cards. Let me build you debs omitting that particular change so we can isolate if that's what caused the regression.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've built some debs with the dithering patches disabled here. Please install the appropriate one(s) for your system; I suspect they'll make the issue go away, in which case we'll want to adapt the patches so they don't trigger the issue on your system:

http://bryceharrington.org/ubuntu/AtiDithering/ *~nodither*deb

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Yes, the ~nodither debs did the work! Attaching Xorg.0.log below...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Alex upstream is working on a big fix that should cover this case without needing my dithering patch. Stay tuned.

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

Hi. While waiting for the fix, just a quick heads up:
I have the same onboard AMD RS690 as Артём Попов. I've been having issues with:

- Ubuntu Alpha 5 (I think) livecd - black screen at X start, I gave up then to wait for the beta
- Ubuntu Beta x86 livecd - same thing
- Kubuntu Beta x86 and x64 - could boot into it, but no text (I then figured out it was the huge fonts, actually)
- Kubuntu x64 alternate - could install,but after login I got to splash screen, which was then covered by portions of huge letters.

I tried getting the latest updates from console, an I did get some ati and radeon drivers among them. After that, I got to the LiveCD situation: I reached KDE desktop, but saw no text and it seemed to freeze when clicking anything.

I finally made it work by using the radeonhd drivers, as suggested, but they seem a bit sluggish.

Sorry for the long message. I hope it helps. Please let me know if you need any details.

Thanks
Sorin

[Peter Zijlstra (a-p-zijlstra)]

Hi,

I just upgraded to intrepid and ran into the same issue as mentioned above, a black screen when starting X.

root@twins:~# lspci | grep ATI
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon HD 2600 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV630/M76 audio device [Radeon HD 2600 Series]

http://programming.kicks-ass.net/sekrit/xorg.conf
http://programming.kicks-ass.net/sekrit/Xorg.0.log

I tried xserver-xorg-video-radeon_6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu3~nodither_i386.deb from the one above, but that doesn't seem to help.

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

I can't even start Intrepid now.(i've updated again from 8.04.1 to 8.10 with update-manager)..even if i change Xorg to radeonhd or ati. It lead me to a "No screen found".

I linked the logs here.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

RC livecd still fails to boot successfully.

RadeonHD is also missing from the livecd, so manual installation of radeonhd is required prior to starting X and the installation.

I think either radeon-nodither or radeonhd (by default) ought to be included before the release, otherwise there's going to be a lot of unhappy users.

Or at least this bug should be mentioned in the release notes (known issues).

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

+1 for that...

[Zaunpfosten (zaunpfosten)]

I think this is the same in my case

I have an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400

 * 8.04 worked fine out "of the box" even with the live CD
 * 8.10 alpha got worked if I added (Driver "radeonhd") manually during install
 * since 8.10 beta I am not able to start X. The driver radeonhd (which worked very well) can't be loaded, radeon does not work, neither does vesa

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

I put a +1, this is a big issue :S

Zaunpfosten > You have to download the packages of radeonhd manually (on packages.ubuntu.com) then install them on commandline and then to add manually radeonhd on xorg :/

Nevertheless, that what i did, and it worked...but that's not a nice way for easy-to-use user ^^

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

Hadrien Dussuel: Do you mean that radeonhd is not even in the repositories now, so you can't get it with apt-get? That would be really bad for us users, as we would have to download it manually from console (?)

One other option is to install fglrx (I did), but for that I think you would have to manually edit sources.lst from console, so again not user friendly.

I think this is a big issue, and it obviously affects quite a few people. Many more might just get a blank screen from that LiveCD that was supposed to "just work", so they conclude that Ubuntu s#$%^ and go on with their Windows lives ;)

(Sorry for the rant)

[Zaunpfosten (zaunpfosten)]

I opened a thread on ubuntuforums.com about this issue (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964587).

In short:
 * the radeonhd drivers _are_ in the repository but _not_ on the CDs (I checked Kubuntu Alternate + Live)
 * the Live CD does not work at all
 * One is able to install the system from the Alternate, but you are not able to get to the desktop
 * The workaround involves putting the .deb on a pen-drive, mounting it from console, installing it with dpkg and editing xorg.conf with vi

Summarized it should be impossible for 95 % of the standard users

[Hadrien Dussuel (dbkblk)]

Sorin Enache: Yeah hm sorry, i forgot to mention that i had only a wifi connection and i didn't manage to make it work in commandline mode (..at least i tried), so i've downloaded the package with another pc ! ...but as Zaunpfosten said, the packages are in the repository but not on the cd ...

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Guys, if the ~nodither deb above does *not* solve the issue for you, then you don't have this bug, but some other unrelated bug that just shares similar symptoms. So in this case you should file a new bug report.

Also, I've written up some troubleshooting/workaround documentation for startup failures at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution and http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Resolution.

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

OK, I applied the nodither patch (amd64) and reverted to using radeon(instead of fglrx) driver to test.
It worked great getting to the desktop, using it now.
However, I didn't notice first because I had set automatic login, but I still have the issue with huge fonts on the gdm login screen.

I found this old bug, could it be related?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/151689

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Uploaded to intrepid-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

You uploaded to intrepid-updates, not -proposed; please reupload.

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Is the updated driver in any repositories yet?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

Didn't make it to the mirrors yet, but I've downloaded debs by hand from launchpad-librarian - everything works as expected, even seems better in 2D than the proprietary driver :) Thanks for the fix!

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

Sorry for the noob question (but I am one ;)
Will it completely replace the -nodither patched version of the driver? And how can I tell it did, after I install the update?
Thanks

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Спосибо, Артём! However, this is a very intrusive patch which needs testing on lots of different hardware to make sure it didn't regress. What's your card model?

[Artem Popov (artfwo)]

2 Sorin, I guess not. We have:
xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu3~nodither
xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1

Thus, ~nodither is going to prevail, unless ubuntu3 without "~" is released (which will supercede the "~" AFAIK). You should manually choose the right version in Synaptic (Package->Specify version...)

2 Martin, my card is listed in the bug description and further comments. For the record, it is
ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
(ChipID = 0x9581)

This is certainly not a regression (at least on my hardware), since I could not even start Xorg with the previous driver version, as described in the first post as well. But I agree, that the update needs broader testing. Shall I revert "verification-done" to "verification-needed"?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Артём Попов [2008-11-14 13:52 -0000]:
> ATI Technologies Inc M76 [Radeon Mobility HD 2600 Series]
> (ChipID = 0x9581)

Thanks.

> Shall I revert "verification-done" to "verification-needed"?

Already done.

[Sorin Enache (darkbulb)]

I can confirm it working for me, too. My card is: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series] (It's the 690G onboard video, desktop version).
It also seems faster for me too, at least in some flash games I tried.

@ Артём Попов: Thanks for explaining that. It didn't show up as an update, probably because I had the "newer" 3 version, so I removed the package and reinstalled it from -proposed.

Thanks everyone for the efforts.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu3

---------------
xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add 103_dithering_rework.patch: Complete, correct fix for dithering
    issues we'd initially worked around in patches 101 and 102. Those
    patches also appear to have introduced regressions on certain hardware,
    which this rework addresses more elegantly. This patch essentially
    includes all of upstream's work up to commit 435cf7da, except that it
    drops commit 0975e007 (rename radeon_memory to radeon_legacy_memory)
    which is unrelated to the dithering problem.
    (Closes LP: #274234, #284346)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:38:53 +0000

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

This bug was found in the Intrepid development cycle; removing regression-potential and marking as regression-release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xserver-xorg-video-ati - 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1

---------------
xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add 103_dithering_rework.patch: Complete, correct fix for dithering
    issues we'd initially worked around in patches 101 and 102. Those
    patches also appear to have introduced regressions on certain hardware,
    which this rework addresses more elegantly. This patch essentially
    includes all of upstream's work up to commit 435cf7da, except that it
    drops commit 0975e007 (rename radeon_memory to radeon_legacy_memory)
    which is unrelated to the dithering problem.
    (Closes LP: #274234, #284346)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:44:59 -0800

[spbrereton (simon-brereton)]

sounds like I just ran into this upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic Alpha 6