suddenly "Fatal error during GPU init" during boot - radeon

kilmister · 2012-06-21 16:10:58

Hi,

after a rather abrupt shutdown my system doesn't boot correctly anymore.
I have an Asus laptop with an ATI radeon HD 2400 (so the sticker on the laptop says - I'm not really a hardware guy)

Before:
While booting, the kernel/console output had bigger, somewhat non-high-resolution letters. Halfway in, the letters changed into a smaller, higher-defined font which was more "beautiful".
Sorry, I don't know what mechanism that is, so I had to describe it that way.

After:
This doesn't happen anymore. Rather, I get this message during boot (this is a copy out of /var/log/errors.log):

Jun 21 17:59:55 localhost kernel: [ 4.081919] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
Jun 21 17:59:55 localhost kernel: [ 4.082998] radeon 0000:01:00.0: no bo for sa manager
Jun 21 17:59:55 localhost kernel: [ 4.083059] [TTM] Trying to take down uninitialized memory manager type 1

I already tried the following:
- reinstall xorg and xf86-video-ati
- sections "Enable KMS" and "Troubleshoot KMS" from that wiki entry:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
- scream and slightly hit the side of the laptop

Nothing worked. Could anyone tell me where to continue searching? I'd hate to reinstall a 1-week old system.

Thanks in advance,
Alex

Potomac · 2012-06-21 18:48:17

you can try adding some kernel boot options in /boot/grub/menu.lst:

noacpi noapic ( and maybe nolapic )

these options will disable acpi and apic functions, sometimes it can help on laptop

Last edited by Potomac (2012-06-21 18:51:21)

ConnorBehan · 2012-06-21 21:12:30

1. You can find out what video card you have for sure with the "lspci" command.

2. Switching from low resolution to high resolution letters is what happens when the the radeon module with KMS support gets loaded. The vga console is replaced by a framebuffer console.

3. Before and after what? Did you upgrade something?

The issue is with KMS. I'm pretty sure you could avoid it by disabling KMS but this is not recommended because UMS support is being dropped. What happens if you blacklist the radeon module so that it does not load on boot and later load it yourself with "modprobe radeon"? Try older kernel versions. There is probably one that works and when you find out, you could report the bug on freedesktop.org.

rowdog · 2012-06-22 00:34:41

It sounds like your "abrupt shutdown" might have mangled your filesystem a bit. Maybe try reinstalling linux-firmware and rebuild the initrd as described on the ATI wiki page you linked to. Also, keep an eye out for other "strange errors" that may have to do with corrupted files.

stopka · 2012-06-23 16:32:30

I have now exactly the same problem. During boot it shows this:
radeon 0000:01:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
radeon 0000:01:00.0: no bo for sa manager
[TTM] Trying to take down uninitialized memory manager type 1

After boot the X server does not start. There is a message "No screens found" in Xorg log.
Please, what helped you with this problem?

When i uninstall xf86-video-ati, gnome starts, but it blinks a lot (i don't know what driver it is using instead, but not a proper one)
It stopped working after ordinary system update.

ConnorBehan · 2012-06-24 00:29:24

I thought I had damaged my video card recently, but it turns out that I just had to unplug my computer and take the battery out for a few hours. Have you tried this? Also: code tags would be great.

stopka · 2012-06-25 22:23:13

Please help, still have no solution. Graphic card is OK, i can normaly boot windows from another partition. But it looks like open driver problem. I have no idea what to try next. I tryed to reinstal xf86-video-ati with all packages on which it depends on. No result. Only when i completely uninstal xf86-video-ati, system runs X in a very strage way (do not know what drivers it is using instead). I this state is everything blinking and is unusable.

Terminator · 2012-06-25 23:27:25

If you remove the ati drivers, the mesa-drivers are used I think.

Since the open source drivers don't work, you should try the closed source drivers (ATI Catalyst) from the AUR. Installing this is a bit of a hassle. The catalyst driver does not support Xorg 1.12, so you have to add a repository for Xorg1.11 and downgrade (see the wiki page). Then, you should install either catalyst-utils and catalyst-hook from AUR (as described in the wiki) or catalyst-total (which combines both and is also mentioned in the wiki).

See the Catalyst Wiki for all information.

Catalyst Utils in AUR
Catalyst Hook
Catalyst Total

edit: I just read the wiki. It seems like there is an easier way to install things now: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … repository

Last edited by Terminator (2012-06-25 23:32:39)

stopka · 2012-06-27 07:22:46

Thanks for advice.
Yes, I know about posibility of instaling catalyst. I would rather use open drivers. The problem is: i am using gnome 3. Will gnome 3 be working on Xorg 1.11?Everything was working fine until the update came. So my graphic car is (or was) supported with open driver. Why it stopped to work suddenly? Do you thing, this is a bug in the driver, or the update has broken some configuration in my computer? Should i report it as a bug?

ConnorBehan · 2012-06-27 19:12:55

Stopka, your error has nothing to do with Gnome or X server versions. It's because of the "Fatal error" you see during boot and probably in your "dmesg" output.

If it was ever working before, you can probably make it work again by downgrading the kernel. Find a kernel version that doesn't give you this "Fatal error". Then graphics will work and you can report a bug to the radeon developers.

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