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SuperDuck

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Registered: 2014-06-25

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] X crash with dual screen enabled/radeon driver[Radeon HD4290]

Hi all,
I'm experiencing a issue with my new computer.
My system become unstable when I activate dual screen. Indeed, when I enable the dual screen, it works, but as soon as I do a text drag and drop for exemple from Firefox my X server crash (and my screens turns black (ctrl+F1..8) doesn't do anything)) , same result when I scroll down too fast inside PCManFM and sometimes even when I don't do anything, on it's own after 5 or 10 minutes.

I've got nothing serious on my journalctl but this error : XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" (but often there is nothing logged).

There is no way to have any display back and the only thing that I can do is to press the power button of my computer, which launch the poweroff process (1 second after pressing the buton i've got my displays back to show me the power down process).

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Here my X.org log :

- grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    77.103] Current Operating System: Linux arch.local 3.15.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 09:32:20 CEST 2014 x86_64
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    77.126] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[    77.189] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[    77.190] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    77.190] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)

- grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    77.117] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[    77.121] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[    77.121] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[    77.125] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[    77.189] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[    77.190] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[    77.190] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa

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- lspci | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4290]
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- Command that I use to activate the dual screen :
xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --output DVI-0 --auto --right-of VGA-0

- I also tried to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf file :
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "VGA-0"
    Option      "Primary" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DVI-0"
    Option      "RightOf" "VGA-0"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "HD_4290"
        Driver  "radeon"
        Option "ColorTiling" "on"
        Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
        Option  "EXAVSync" "on" #default is off, otherwise on. Only works if EXA activated
        Option  "EXAPixmaps" "on"  #when on icreases 2D performance, but may also cause artifacts on some old cards. Only works if EXA activated
EndSection

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FYI :
- xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
   1680x1050     59.88*+
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02 
   1280x960      60.00 
   1152x864      75.00 
   1024x768      75.08    70.07    60.00 
   832x624       74.55 
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25 
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00 
   720x400       70.08 
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 521mm x 293mm
   1920x1080     60.00 + 119.98   109.95    99.93    59.94 
   1680x1050     59.88*
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02 
   1440x900      74.98    59.90 
   1280x800      59.91 
   1152x864      75.00 
   1024x768      75.08    70.07    60.00 
   832x624       74.55 
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25 
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94 
   720x400       70.08 
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- driver used :
extra/ati-dri 10.2.1-2

- archlinux version :
Linux arch.local 3.15.1-1-ARCH

- window manager (and desktop environment) :
openbox 3.5.2-6

Thank you for any help!!

Last edited by SuperDuck (2014-06-30 20:50:18)

SuperDuck

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Registered: 2014-06-25

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] X crash with dual screen enabled/radeon driver[Radeon HD4290]

Here my last log...

org.a11y.atspi.Registry[13603]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
org.a11y.atspi.Registry[13603]: after 1625 requests (1625 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
org.a11y.Bus[554]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.

SuperDuck

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Registered: 2014-06-25

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] X crash with dual screen enabled/radeon driver[Radeon HD4290]

Yes! I found it..
My graphic card is embedded and inside the bios I previously set it with only 32MB. I've upgraded it to 512MB (I will try to reduce later...) and since now I don't have any crash.
Hope it will help