screen corruption and segfaults with radeon m6 ly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
After an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 (which was interrupted as a result of bug 404331), several new problems have appeared. Font rendering in Abiword shows a grid pattern which alters as each character is added to text; certain applications and windows (reliably System Monitor and the NetworkManager 'connected' pop-up) instead of ordinary contents display a pattern that I can best describe as tartan (although the attached images aren't in tartan colours); with DRI on, when a window goes out of focus is it often corrupted; and (also only when DRI is disabled) when creating a large window (e.g. for Thunderbird), Xorg segfaults, part of the left hand of the screen appears on the right and I am returned to the GDM greeter.
Nevertheless, this problem does not occur when running from Karmic live CD alpha-4. (see 404331 for additional info). (Since these problems are new in Karmic, and the upgrade was not at all smooth and required some recovery, I suppose they could be the result of corrupt packages.)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CurrentDmesg:
[ 119.832047] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -156359368 ns)
[ 134.069580] ndiswrapper (iw_set_auth:1585): invalid cmd 12
[ 135.005185] ADDRCONF(
[ 145.624053] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Date: Mon Aug 31 10:13:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Viglen LX
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git200908
libdrm2 2.4.12+
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 08/07/02
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R1.16
dmi.board.name: Almador System CLEVO:4200-000
dmi.board.vendor: CLEVO Corporation
dmi.board.version: None
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: LX
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Viglen
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.28-15-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: karmic |
summary: |
- [karmic] screen corruption and segfaults with radeon m6 ly + screen corruption and segfaults with radeon m6 ly |
tags: | added: corruption |
tags: | added: jaunty |
Well, we probably should start by ruling out the not-smooth upgrade. Would you mind booting the alpha-4 livecd again, updating it to latest karmic, and restarting X (log out / log in should do it)? Or alternatively, alpha-5 will be out in a couple days if you'd like to wait and test that.
If you find you can't reproduce it like that, then the next question would be to see if some packages got messed up. You could do this by purging and reinstalling mesa, xorg-server, and -ati. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/X/Troublesh ooting/ FglrxInteferesW ithRadeonDriver for an example of the commands to do this (even though you didn't have -fglrx installed, the procedure for resetting -ati should be similar.)