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soulrider

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From: Uruguay

Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 7

ATI Card causing freezes

Hello everyone.

For the past few months I've been having trouble with my ATI card. My system has been crashing, as far as I can tell randomly. Because of the logs it seems to be related to my video card, but I have no idea of how to fix it.

As I said, it seems to happen randomly. Sometimes my screen freezes (I can hear audio playing though) and after a few seconds my monitors turn off, stay off for a few seconds and then turn on showing a garbled screen with white and black vertical lines. Sometimes I am able to move my mouse (I also see it as a square of black and white lines), and sometimes I'm not. Audio also stops. SSH-ing and restarting/killing both Slim and X does nothing. SysRq + REISUB also does not work. These freezes can happen after 10 minutes of use or after hours, there's no telling of when they an happen.

I have tried seeing if it's a specific application that causes it, but it seems to happen when everything is closed too.

Here is some package information:

local/linux 3.12.8-1

local/xorg-server 1.15.0-5
local/xf86-video-ati 1:7.2.0-2

local/mate-common 1.6.2-2

local/slim 1.3.6-3

10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

20-radeon.conf

Section "Module"
        Load "dri2"
        Load "glamoregl"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Radeon"
        Driver "Radeon"
        Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection

I've managed to copy the X server log after a crash:
http://pastebin.ca/2591754

And the output of dmesg:
http://pastebin.ca/2591757

My card is a Radeon 7770 Core Edition. I do not get these types of crashes on Windows.

Any help would be much appreciated!