[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-13 Thread David García
Hi, I'm now running kernel 2.6.29.3 in Kubuntu Jaunty and the problem is definitely gone. To try it, just download and install (with dpkg -i) the following packages: linux-headers-2.6.29-*_all.deb, linux-headers-2.6.29-*_i386.deb and linux-image-2.6.29-*_i386.deb from:

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-13 Thread David García
** Attachment added: I forgot to say that I'm using EXA acceleration - Anyway, here's my xorg.conf file. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26685440/xorg.conf -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-11 Thread haneya
Hi , am facing the same freezing issue with video, and with compiz (using fusion-icon) after some time Restarting X , if going back to xorg 1.5 will solve the problem and i can use fglrx I will do it . Does upgrade the kernel fix this . ati X1600 ( tried to install fglrx before but I purged it

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-11 Thread Rolf Leggewie
related to bug 363238? That one is also about EXA vs. XAA -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-11 Thread Schreiber
Hi, after updating to Kubuntu 9.04 Kernel 2.6.28-11-generic using driver radeon or fglrx I cannot even get my X-Server up and running. After starting kdm there was only black sceene. (Ati Mobility Radeon HD 3400 series). I can only use the vesa-driver. When I go back to my last Kernel

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-09 Thread Pépou
Same problem on my computer. I have a dell inspiron 6400 with an ATI radeon mobility 1400. I have the radeon driver as fglrx is no longer develop for non HD graphic card. Uname -a : laptop 2.6.28-12-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:27:06 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux My computer freezes sometimes

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread zeroathome
Running on following hardware using the radeon driver: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M66-P [Mobility Radeon X1700] I noticed that the freezes aren't random, mostly they are happening when minor windows are being opened, e.g. the progress bar when installing a new

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Wiesauer
I can confirm zeroathome's observation.It always happens when opening minor windows. It is strange that disabling desktop effects and also switching to another kernel does not work for me. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread Adam Niedling
Is this bug only for Kubuntu? I'm using Ubuntu and have random freezes during playing 3D games. (Urban terror) Also the performance is very poor compared to fglrx that I was using with Intrepid. Is the performance better with the new kernel? I have Mobility Radeon X1600 and I don't have compiz

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread Florian Hofmann
Switching to 2.6.28-12-generic from jaunty-proposed doesn't help. Also i think i can confirm zeroathome's observation too. System often freezes when opening kopete chat windows. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread jtholmes
Could one or more of you switch to the mainline kernel 2.6.28 at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ if you know how to install one and see if that makes a difference, or for those that are really brave could you use the 2.6.29 mainline and report back. Thanks in

Re: [Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread Florian Hofmann
Ok ... i tested both (2.6.28 and 2.6.29, the latest mainline versions). WARNING: the 2.6.28 version messed up my ecryptfs home directory ... But there were no blanking problems with either of them. 2009/5/6 jtholmes j...@jtholmes.com Could one or more of you switch to the mainline kernel

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-06 Thread Lafa
This seems related, a into looks like it fixed the freezing problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/368049 -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-05 Thread aya
I have Radeon Mobility x1600 and had the same problems with freezing. After installing kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.29.2/ and all freezes with compositing on are gone. It is working. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-05 Thread jtholmes
Aya makes a good point, and a great suggestion, thanks aya. However, many of you reporting this but may not be familiar with getting/installing a mainline kernel, so if you aren't then I would suggest you try the Ubuntu proposed kernel which is 2.6.28-12.43. That kernel cured the problem for

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-05 Thread jtholmes
Believe this bug is very similar or a dup or 368461 and possibly 351990 -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-04 Thread Andreas Wiesauer
Hi, I have the same problem on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with a Radeon Mobility X1400 GPU. It happens with both radeon and radeonhd drivers. So in my opinion it is not a problem with graphics drivers. Maybe Jason is right, it could be an Xorg problem, I will try the downgrade later on. Turning DRI

Re: [Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-04 Thread David García
Hi, You could try to just disable compositing instead of DRI. Add or edit this section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Extensions Option Composite Disable EndSection That's the only change I have applied to avoid this bug at the expense of losing desktop effects. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-03 Thread Thomas Ohms
It's possible I have the same problem on my Asus F5V with X2300 installed. According to http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/plain/README my card is still supported, but with fglrx I cannot even get my X-Server up and running. As soon as KDM is starting it freezes X with

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-03 Thread ibex_rider
Hi all, not sure I experience exactly the same bug, but I do think there are issues with radeon driver ... I recently upgraded 8.10 to 9.04 on a Dell D610 (lspci | grep VGA says 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]). All was okay but googleearth

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-03 Thread Jason Scurtu
hi ibex_rider, yes this there is a problem... you can downgrade to Xorg 1.5.2 on jaunty, just use these packages that i pointed to more up in this bug report http://www.davidfaure.fr/2009/xorg_debs.tar.bz2 Installing Xorg 1.5.2 fixes this.. Jason -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-05-02 Thread David García
Hi, I'm also affected by this bug in Kubuntu Jaunty with a Radeon X1600PRO: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600] The system freezes whenever I turn on compositing, with either EXA or XAA. Package versions: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 2.6.28-11.42

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Scurtu
So maybe some of you already read on dfaure's blog, not sure thats why ill post some info here.. just take a look here: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942 He actually recompiled X.org 1.5.2 for jaunty and offers the packages as a download and mentioned that it solved the problem. Proof that

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Scurtu
So maybe some of you already read on dfaure's blog, not sure thats why ill post some info here.. just take a look here: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942 He actually recompiled X.org 1.5.2 for jaunty and offers the packages as a download and mentioned that it solved the problem. Proof that

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Scurtu
So maybe some of you already read on dfaure's blog, not sure thats why ill post some info here.. just take a look here: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942 He actually recompiled X.org 1.5.2 for jaunty and offers the packages as a download and mentioned that it solved the problem. Proof that

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-30 Thread Jason Scurtu
So maybe some of you already read on dfaure's blog, not sure thats why ill post some info here.. just take a look here: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3942 He actually recompiled X.org 1.5.2 for jaunty and offers the packages as a download and mentioned that it solved the problem. Proof that

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-30 Thread David Taylor
should this bug be marked as a duplicate of bug #351990? No, bug #351990 was logged later and has less subscribers and they have come to the same conclusion (with the kernel) so if anything 351990 should be closed as a duplicate of this fault, at least thats my tuppence worth. --

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-27 Thread juhuu
hi should this bug be marked as a duplicate of bug #351990 ? Problem seems to be very similar except that jason scurtu describes freezes beeing persistent with composite disabled, where in the other bug report freezes wont occour with compositing disabled. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-25 Thread juhuu
I can confirm that the problem is gone with kernel 2.6.29 - 1 and that re-appears in kernel 2.6.30 RC3... -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-25 Thread Malte S. Stretz
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-25 Thread Cédric D .
I confirm this bug on ATI X600 Mobility (M24 chipset). Disabling composite (Option Composite Disable) does NOT solve the problem. Switching to XAA acceleration (Option AccelMethod XAA) does NOT solve the problem. Disabling DRI (Option DRI off) DOES (seem; no freeze in ~150 minutes) to solve

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-25 Thread Alexander L.
Sergio is right - in 2.6.29.1 and 2.6.30-rc3 problem is gone ATI x1300 PRO (RV515) -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-25 Thread humufr
Indeed I don't have any freeze with the 2.6.29.1 kernel. But there are still some problem with plasma. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-24 Thread Florian Hofmann
I can confirm this bug on a Inspiron 6400 running a Radeon Mobility X1400. Switching off composing effects 'solves' the problem. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-24 Thread sergio.callegari
Apparently not a bug in the xorg ati driver but in the kernel. Kernel 2.6.29.1 from the mainline ppa fixes the bug for me. Now my radeon 9600XT works smoothly and it is notably faster at many things than the proprietary driver. Pre-built mainline kernels are a truly wonderful innovation!!!

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-24 Thread humufr
Are you sure sergio? Because the bug is back in 2.6.30rc3 in this case at least with a X300 card. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-23 Thread Tobias Krais
Hi together, I had the same error. When I removed the fglrx packages, the failure was gone. Greetings, Tobias -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-23 Thread sergio.callegari
Confirmed with ATI Radeon 9600XT on an older Athlon XP PC. After a few minutes with composing (effects) enabled either: 1) screen and keybord freeze; or 2) the above with the screen also going black; or 3) the above with the screen going black but a cursor present in the last case (and only in

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril BUQUET
Confirmed on my system with Mobility X2300 (M64-S) If i disable kwin composing, no Freeze -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-22 Thread Jason Scurtu
Good news, at least for me... Now with the latest Jaunty bugfix updates and using kernel 2.6.29.1 from the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel repository my system now runs with DRI and Kwin Composite enabled... This did not work before... Allthough using the 2.6.28.XX Kernel from Jaunty still fails.. Can

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati I am not able to use Jaunty with my Radeon 9000 RV250 Graphicscard.. When leaving the default settings after install it takes only a few minutes or somtimes seconds then X freezes or goes Black.. Default means EXA and

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-13 Thread Jason Scurtu
yes its me again :-) Now a friend gave me a different card for testing, I now have a ATI Radeon 9600XT .. I first thought hey, it all works now,... but after about 45min it went black :-( ... This bug still remains also with other ATI cards.. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Scurtu
I was curios and look'ed at other Distributions that are also still in development, as they are simular to Ubuntu (Xorg,Kernel) so I ran thier LiveCD's. And I found that they all had the same problem, so this is not a Ubuntu issue only!! ... I Tested: Fedora 11 Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 --

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Scurtu
** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Fedora) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Mandriva) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-09 Thread Yves Glodt
More info: I tried with the 2.6.28-10 kernel, and the situation was the same, instability-wise. Can anyone point me to the upstream bugreport of this issue? It really makes ,y system unusable as soon as I turn on DRI, I had 3 freezes in 20 minutes of time Correction to my post #5: I only put

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-09 Thread Yves Glodt
False alarm... Now even with dri off I had another freeze, and I suspect the iwlagn driver on my system, as seen here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/linux/+bug/276990 Sorry for the noise -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-06 Thread Sugus
I only disable kwin effects without change the xorg.conf and the system is stable. -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-05 Thread Yves Glodt
I experience freezes quite often as well over the last 2 weeks +/-, probably since the moment the radeon driver supports acceleration. I use jaunty/amd64, and my hardware is 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series Today I turned off acceleration

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-04 Thread Jason Scurtu
This bug is really killing me... I am trying out so many things and it just aint getting better... ( I tried out new updatet drm, mesa, dri from https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa + updated radeon drivers from tormodvolden.. this bug still remains.. I tied Kernel 2.6.29 I did

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-04-01 Thread Sugus
Same problem to me. ATI radeon x2300 (M64-S) -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-03-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Scurtu
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24326047/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: LsHal.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24326048/LsHal.txt ** Attachment added: LsMod.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24326049/LsMod.txt ** Attachment added: LsPci.txt

[Bug 348332] Re: [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Scurtu
Okay... now after I put the NoDRI option in my xorg.conf, I have no more Freezes. and naturaly still no Desktop effects. hmmm -- [RV250][JAUNTY] X Freezes with Radeon driver EXA/XAA Composite https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348332 You received this bug notification because you are a