[PowerPC] [Lucid] [LiveCD] Blank screen; R128 "Idle timed out, resetting engine"

[TJ]

Apple iMac G3 (PPC 750, 500MHz, PowerMac2,2 NewWorld, 768MB RAM).

The system was previously successfully running Jaunty and later Karmic as dual-boot with OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Attempting to install Lucid 10.04 from the PPC Live CD there is a lot of audible CD access activity but a dark blank screen after the plymouth splash.

I was able to switch to VT1 and check the logs. I found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: (DEBUG) CCE idle took i = 1025
(EE) R128(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...

In /var/log/syslog:

Apr 21 03:26:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 722.894086] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device
Apr 21 03:26:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 722.925480] aty128fb 0000:00:10.0: Invalid ROM contents
Apr 21 03:26:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 722.992024] vgaarb: this pci device is not a vga device
Apr 21 03:26:37 ubuntu kernel: [ 723.148330] platform r128_cce.0: firmware: requesting r128/r128_cce.bin
Apr 21 03:27:11 ubuntu gdm-simple-greeter[2919]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.0/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow
Apr 21 03:27:13 ubuntu gdm-simple-greeter[2919]: WARNING: Unable to write to login cache file: /var/lib/gdm/.cache/login_frequency.cache
Apr 21 03:27:13 ubuntu gdm[2937]: ******************* START **********************************
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: 0x0fe8d8e4 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #0 0x0fe8d8e4 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #1 0x1002d568 in ?? ()
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #2 0x1002d650 in ?? ()
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #3 <signal handler called>
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #4 0x0eff1c10 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #5 0x0eff1af8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #6 0x0eff1abc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]:
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: Thread 1 (Thread 0x4803c580 (LWP 2919)):
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #0 0x0fe8d8e4 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #1 0x1002d568 in ?? ()
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #2 0x1002d650 in ?? ()
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #3 <signal handler called>
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #4 0x0eff1c10 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #5 0x0eff1af8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #6 0x0eff1abc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: No symbol table info available.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: A debugging session is active.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]:
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: #011Inferior 1 [process 2919] will be detached.
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]:
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
Apr 21 03:27:17 ubuntu gdm[2937]: ******************* END **********************************

The display controller is an ATI Rage 128 PR/PRO:

0000:00:10.0 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PR/PRO AGP 4x TMDS [1002:5052]
 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PR/PRO AGP 4x TMDS [1002:5052]
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 255 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48
 Region 0: Memory at 94000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 0400 [size=256]
 Region 2: Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Expansion ROM at 90020000 [size=128K]
 Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
  Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
  Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
 Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
 Kernel driver in use: aty128fb

[TJ (tj)]

/proc/cpuinfo:

processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 32-35 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 500.000000MHz
revision : 131.2 (pvr 0008 8302)
bogomips : 49.93
timebase : 24967326
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerMac2,2
machine : PowerMac2,2
motherboard : PowerMac2,2 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 66 (iMac FireWire)
pmac flags : 00000014
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory : 768 MB

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

​​​​this driver has been removed from Ubuntu, closing the bugs