Bug 555056

Summary: radeonhd [Xpress 1250] severely corrupt screen
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: James Ogley <riggwelter>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Egbert Eich <eich>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: Kris.Kaiser, resler, sndirsch
Version: Final   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
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Attachments: Xorg.0.log

Description James Ogley 2009-11-12 21:28:43 UTC 
Created attachment 327253 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Upgraded my wife's laptop to 11.2 from 11.1 - tried both a fresh install and then installing 11.1 and upgrading and the same happened - in the case of the fresh install it was after the first reboot during install, in the latter case when zypper dup had finished and I rebooted:

When X starts, the screen just goes a mixture of black and white eventually being fully black - it was fine in 11.1.

I tried upgrading to the latest drivers in X11:Drivers:Video but it made no difference.

Will attach Xorg.0.log along with hwinfo --gfx.  If it helps, I've put a photo of the screen at http://jamesthevicar.com/images/jpg/radeonhd-corrupt.jpg

hwinfo --gfx follows:

rabbit:~ # hwinfo --gfx
25: PCI 105.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_7942
  Unique ID: ul7N.ns4ZFNHGmS9
  Parent ID: vSkL.nzdltcNgfQ3
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:05.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Radeon Xpress 1250"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x7942 "Radeon Xpress 1250"
  SubVendor: pci 0x144d "Samsung Electronics Co Ltd"
  SubDevice: pci 0xc034 
  Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x9000-0x9fff (rw)
  IRQ: 18 (2 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00007942sv0000144Dsd0000C034bc03sc00i00"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #25
Comment 1 Kris Kaiser 2009-11-19 00:19:44 UTC 
Not only Radeon-Problem. Different Notebooks and Graphics

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 548328 ***
Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2009-11-22 08:44:44 UTC 
reverting mess up by Kris Kaiser.
Comment 3 Egbert Eich 2009-11-23 18:26:40 UTC 
James, any /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Comment 4 James Ogley 2009-11-23 18:38:03 UTC 
It's on the initial report (Comment 0 I guess).

Incidentally, the laptop in question in my wife's and since she needs to be able to use it, I've re-installed 11.1 on it.  I can test anything you need but it'll need me to have the time to upgrade and then possibly revert to 11.1 if it fails.
Comment 5 Jaroslav Resler 2009-11-23 21:23:45 UTC 
The similar problem on notebook HP Compaq 6715b (AMD Turion 64 X2, ATI Xpress 1250). Radeonhd driver was working quite well in openSuse 11.1 but it is broken in OpenSuse 11.2. The screen flicks every few seconds (like broken old TV). It makes notebook almost unusable and AMD stopped the development of fglrx drivers for these chips some time ago.
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2010-08-14 16:16:31 UTC 
Still the same issue with openSUSE 11.3 (add boot option 'nomodeset')? What are the results on 11.3 with radeon driver instead (without boot option 'nomodeset').
Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2010-09-11 12:01:52 UTC 
Still waiting for a response for four weeks now. Please reopen once you can provide the requested feedback. Thanks.