Actually I think we have enough info now to do a quirk.
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I'm starting this new report on behalf of what Bryce Harrington said
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OK, first things first:
What happens?
Nick, can you please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Quirks#ATI%20AGP%20Mode%20Quirk and post the
required information here? You probably have given most of the
information already, but since this bug report has gotten so long and
untidy it would be nice if we could get just the needed information in
I have the same problems with a
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon
9600 M10]
I have not yet tested the AGPMode 1 option.
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Hi Bryce and all,
I'm very sorry that I am reporting so late on this but I didn't have the time
to upgrade to Intrepid on my Thinkpad.
Now that I did, I am sorry to report that the freezing problem still exist.
BUT there is a workaround for anyone who's affected (pointed ou to me by Alex
Deuche
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Just wanted to report that my problem ( which was similar to this one,
but not the same) went away in Intrepid and I am now enjoying Compiz on
my ATI Radeon 9600 without any problems. So thank you to all the
contributers who are ironing out the ATI issues! I am enjoying my Linux
more and more!
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realthor, please see
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Hi,
I have just found this bug as until now my ati t60 worked perfectly with
ubuntu/compiz. Today I installed Intrepid and I was pretty shoked to
find that after I enabled compiz it froze completely in a few minutes of
working. No ctrl alt del or ctrl alt backspace would work only a button
shutdow
Hi Nick, it's been some time since we last heard from you - are you
still interested in this bug? If so, it'd be great if you could re-test
it against intrepid, and provide the info mentioned above. Otherwise,
we'll close this as expired; the bug report has wandered a bit from
topic so would be n
Interestingly, kede's Windows XP uses AGP x4 (and even FastWrites
enabled). One might start to suspect there is a bug in Xorg AGP
handling, even though upstream so far says it's a hardware setting
incompatibility (card vs bridge).
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Thank you very much!
I happened to install Windows XP and used this opportunity to check the graphic
card with the tool "powerstrip".
Here are the readings:
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kede, a quirk for your setup to use AGPMode 1 is included in
1:6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-2ubuntu1.
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Model: Acer Travelmate 4001lmi.
Replaced Parts: Removed one 256MB Ram Module and inserted a 1GB one (1GB +
256MB).
Flashed Bios some years ago.
Information from Bios Setup:
System Bios Version: 3A10, Build Time: 10/12/04 22:25:09
VGA Bios Version: ATI M11-008.018M.017.001
Hi revanb,
Depends a lot on what your interests are. There's a ton of info
available off of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment, although it
might be intimidating. Feel free to email me directly if you're
interested in working on X stuff and need more direction (also see
http://wiki.ubuntu
By the way, I am currently looking for ways to contribute to linux. I
can program and have a computer related degree, I just don't know the
linux development scene yet, so If anyone can point me in the right
direction I'll be happy to try and help find a fix to this bug!
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I have exactly the same problem as billythegates describes. (see qoute
below)
I found that when I uninstall the fglrx driver (by unselecting it in the
proprientary hardware drivers dialog) then the default driver is better.
It unfortunately still freezes occasionally...I hope this mobility
radeon
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Based on the description of the symptoms, it sounds like (at least for
some reporters) this might be caused by an incorrect AGPMode setting,
which is used when DRI is enabled. If you're seeing a hang, you should
test if changing this makes the issue go away. In your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf set AGPMode
@kede, your issue is not this bug. Report it separately; don't simply
pick one that sounds similar and add comments to it.
Still awaiting word from Nick, so keeping as Incomplete.
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The issues in your screen captures are reported in bug #245849 and bug
#243682
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I pressed the power button before.
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I'm not sure if this is the same problem...
I tried Intrepid Alpha 4 but I'm still unable to use the desktop installation
cd. I tried several times.
- System freezes a few seconds after x starts.
- System freezes a few seconds after x starts but I can move the mouse-cursor.
- System freezes a few
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OK, first things first:
What happens?
>From Alex's reply on the upstream bug, it sounds like these freezes are
common symptoms of a variety of independent bugs - the best default
settings for EXA, AGP, etc. etc. are extremely hardware specific. Thus,
each of these issues needs to be treated as a separate bug.
So what I'd like to do i
Hmm sees that I posted this in the wrong place. Sorry.
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My random freezes continues and I guess that's the problem for others
also. Should I give up the LTS version until next comes out in 2-3
years?
Does anyone know what the plan is for the future of this release. I
understand that it seems like a very difficult problem but something
that works perfec
I think for me it was two causes of my freezes. First it was ati fglrx
drivers that made it freeze when I used effects and so on. But have now
changed to the open gl drivers and doesn't have any freezes when using
the computer heavily. Now my computer only freezes when I don't use it.
If I leave my
Update:
News from Alex Deucher
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-June/000585.html
Lets hope it can be expected in Hardy 8.04
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switching from XAA to EXA solved my problems with an ATI Mobility Radeon
X700 (RV410 - M26). I don't get any freezes with Compiz enabled any more
even if I try to run more 3d Applications simultaneously. I have tested
it for about two weeks before I post here.
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
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I may have the same problem with acer travelmate 4001lmi (mobile radeon 9700 /
64mb).
I disabled compiz, but as soon as a access the screensaver applet or any other
3d apliccation (glxinfo, glxgears...) the system freezes.
This started during 08.04 alpha (even the live / install-cd was affected)
> How do I override the blacklist and enable Compiz on this laptop?
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/compiz && echo SKIP_CHECKS=yes >>
$HOME/.config/compiz/compiz-manager
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I have a laptop with a radeon mobility 9600, and I would like to check
to see if the "Option 'AccelMethod' 'EXA'" workaround works over here.
How do I override the blacklist and enable Compiz on this laptop? I am
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Hi Bert,
I have the same ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)], the only
value which is different is the BusID"PCI:5:0:0".
I dont't want to mess up anything, so please could you take a look at my bug
#227936 if "EXA" would be appropriate in my settings. Were the outputs similar
That is just excellent Bryce!
I have not experienced freezes on Hardy Final since I applied the "EXA" change
3 days ago. (had crashes since Gutsy)
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]"
Driver "ati"
BusID
One upstream reporter says that his issue disappeared by flipping on
EXA.
Section "Device"
...
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
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If it freezes when switching from one window to another that's a known
bug in compiz that will be fixed in hardy-updates. Otherwise I can't
think of any change between 0.6 and 0.7.4 that would make it freeze on
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I know this isn't exactly helpful, but I still have not had any freeze
problems with my ThinkPad T40 (Mobility 9000) running Fedora 8. Like I
said before, the only difference I can find between this and my freeze-
prone workstation running Ubuntu 8.04 (ATI X600) is the Compiz version
(0.6.2 in Fed
Oh and btw, I tried to use the open source ati driver by configuring
xorg.conf, but it fails ! X freezes, and can't display anything... (just
the mouse cursor in the right resolution).
Well I was disappointed by Ubuntu 7.10, and I was waiting for 8.04
because it's a LTS, but it's even worse... I t
I have the same problem on my laptop until now :( I have an Acer Aspire
2026 with an ATI mobility radeon 9700.
I must use the vesa driver but the display is not correct : 1024x768 and my
screen is 1280x800...
If I use the ATI drivers the screen resolution is correct but the computer
freezes just
I started comparing packages on my Hardy workstation (ATI X600, randomly
freezing) and my Fedora 8 ThinkPad (Mobility 9000, no freezing), and the
only difference I could find was in Compiz. The Hardy machine is
running Compiz 0.7.4 and the ThinkPad 0.6.2. Both are using the 6.8.0-1
-ati drivers.
I have a T42 with a Mobility Radeon 9600 as well. I'm using the testing
.deb that Bryce suggested. The lockup only seems to occur for me when
I'm using OpenOffice + compiz. Don't know if anyone else has experienced
that. I also have the problem with restarting the xserver--if I logout
or Ctrl+Alt+B
OK, Alex suggests the same thing (see fd.o report) -- how would I be
doing it in Ubuntu?
I git cloned xf86-video-ati as well as mesa/drm
Then I did a build-dep for xserver-xorg-video-ati
So far so good, but what packages do I have to remove before I install
those two? xserver-xorg-video-ati and li
I know this isn't exactly helpful in resolving this bug, but I tried
running `etracer` on my ThinkPad (a 9000, not a 9600) on this Fedora 8
install and it functions perfectly. I still wonder if this is not, in
fact, an issue with the -ati driver (Fedora uses the same version
6.8.0-1). Unless, of
Okay thanks. If you get feeling ambitious, a next step would be to
build and test the current git head of the -ati driver. If it works
properly there, then perhaps there is another patch we could pull in.
Bryce
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:40:42PM -, Nick Bauermeister wrote:
> Bryce, I just i
Bryce, I just installed your packege(s) and tried 'etracer' ("extreme
tux racer", see above) after a reboot. Sadly, it froze immediately like
before.
I don't have the time to do a backtrace right now, because I have to
got. Maybe tomorrow.
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Note that I said "particularly" on newer cards. There are also register
mismap issues on older cards as well and the .deb has a few fixes for
r100/r200 class hw as well, just that *most* of its patches focus on
newer cards.
Regarding whitelisting of older ati cards, you'd need to take that up
wit
So, if this lock ups affects newer cards, why Bug #201330 has been marked as
"won't fix", since compiz has ALWAYS worked nice for older cards? (cards that
are not supported by proprietary driver).
It would be nice to whitelist them, no lock ups reported...
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I talked further with Alex about this bug and the mis-mapped registers.
He gave me a list of patches he felt that would be high priority for
addressing the various issues that may cause Compiz to lock up,
particularly on newer 3xx architecture cards. I've packaged up these
fixes into a deb to make
After posting my success with Fedora 8 on the freedesktop lists (linked
above), I did discover a similar bug on Red Hat's bugzilla indicating
problems with the 6.6.3-1 ati driver. It's an older bug, and I have
still been unable to duplicate the problem with the newer 6.8.0-1
drivers. It makes me
> it seems that this bug could be just ubuntu related
Nope. I already tested Debian unstable as well as Arch Linux and they
are both affected too.
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from a mail on the ati driver list it seems that this bug could be just
ubuntu related and that some user decide to try other distributions with
success (no freeze for 3 weeks)... I'm pretty sure that it's too late
for Hardy to have a solution for this problem. It's too bad and can be
very damaging
just one thing...
on my card (radeon7000/VE) all worked fine with the driver 6.6.3 from 7.04.
it's freezing with 6.7.195 from 7.10.
also, i bought specifically my card at the time because ATI developped free
drivers (it was a while back). at the time they gave NDA docs and paid some
people to de
Not sure why this got beudbeud - assuming that's accidental; if not, please fix.
Setting milestone to Ubuntu:Later; this should be set to Ubuntu:
Intrepid-alpha-1 once that has opened.
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I commented on the upstream bug, and will do so here. I showed this bug
to Alex Deucher; he hadn't seen this particular bug but has an idea what
the underlying cause is. When -ati was developed they did not have
access to the Radeon register documentation so made a lot of guesses,
that have been
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Importa
Will this be fixed in the final version of Ubuntu Hardy? I'd like to get rid of
the Windows crap ASAP!
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Forgot to add : My problem only occured since kernel 2.6.24. On gutsy
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Hi,
I also a problem with my ati card : X hangs shortly after login, with our
without compiz. I solved it by adding
Option "AGPMode" "1"
in my xorg.conf. However, it's not good, as it really slows graphics display. I
reported a bug here :
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi
I have a desktop system running an ATI X600 that previously exhibited
the all-but-mouse freeze, I'll run the debugger on that system to see
if it produces anything different than the ThinkPads.
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Perhaps is it related not only to ATI but also to Thinkpad. The
majority of people touch bit it does have a laptop from thsis brand.
(Mine is a Thinkpad Z60m).
I know that you cannot install on windows the ATI catalyst version but
you have to use the Lenovo one's...
ps: by the way I saw exactly
Some more testing, this time with 'extremetuxracer' (3D game from Ubuntu
sources).
This game works fine on my desktop machine (Radeon 9600 XT) with the open radon
driver.
On the Thinkpad the game appears to freezes after 2-5 seconds. The music
continues, though.
The backtrace is similar to the
Kris, thanks for taking the time to work on this.
Like I said in the upstream report I filed over at fd.o
(http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15096) this issue is not limited
to Compiz but 3D apps in general.
I tried your suggestion and I do not have the same problem with the Braid
scr
Just a heads-up: I filed a similar bug (at Bryce's suggestion) at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
ati/+bug/206845
I'm running a similar setup (ThinkPad with ATI Radeon Mobility 9000),
but I'm getting some different output in the backtrace. I've also
discovered that
Bryce,
thanks for looking into this.
I did have xserver-xorg-core-dbgsym installed by the time I did the backtrace.
Now I installed xserver-xorg-core-dbg (instead) as well as xserver-xorg-
video-ati-dbg
$ dpkg -l | grep dbg
ii xserver-xorg-core-dbg 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubu
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