Display blanking/freezing using PCI/AGP ATI 9250
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-driver-ati |
Fix Released
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High
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xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
Occasionally (estimating after 10-30 minutes) while logged in and actively working, my display will go black. Ctrl+alt+F1, etc, won't switch to a new display, ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't kill the xserver, and it will seem as though the machine is hung. I can still ssh into it from a different machine however: top shows xorg spiking the cpu, and Xorg.0.log shows a large number of messages repeating:
(EE) RADEON(0): RADEONWaitForId
(EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
(**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (16/16)
This occurs with a Radeon 9250 128mb AGP card, as well as a Radeon 9250 128mb PCI card, freezing within 30 minutes or so. It works fine however with a (much) older Rage II PCI card, at the same resolution/
The machine has been working fine since dapper was in beta (including a month experiment running compiz + xgl/aiglx), failures started last week some time (sorry I can't be more specific, had other things on my mind).
It seems to be tied to interactive use somehow (it doesn't crash overnight), and I'm not running any 3d apps (although the open gl screensavers are installed; again, this occurs as I'm typing, so I don't think it's screensaver related).
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
importance: | High → Unknown |
Changed in xserver-xorg-driver-ati: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
Radeon 9250 PCI,
AMD Sempron 2400,
1 gig memory
Occurs with ubuntu's vanilla 386, 686 and K7 kernels, as well as a 2.6.17.ck patched kernel, all of which ran fine before, and fine now with the older video card.
Quite a few windows open in the session (Firefox's session recovery is a wonderful thing)