[radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

zyon · 2009-04-14 21:03:11

Hallo ArchCommunity,

I have a ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics card, it's work work with the radeonhd driver. All works fine, but sometimes my screen goes black. Just for one/two seconds but this is not funny for me this happen mostly when I have many activity on may desktop for example when any command (find / -name "*") produced a lot of output.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this may have happened? I would really appreciate any help people can give. Thanks!

zyon

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier        "Xorg Configured"
    Screen            0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice        "Keyboard0"
    InputDevice        "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"

    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "xtrap"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "extmod"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "drm"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "freetype"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "False"
    Option        "AutoEnableDevices" "false"
    Option        "DontZap" "False"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver        "keyboard"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "de"
    Option        "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Serial Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "USB Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#    HorizSync    24.0 - 82.0
#    VertRefresh    48.0 - 76.0
    Identifier    "Monitor0"
    VendorName    "HP"
    ModelName    "HP w2207"
#    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Card0"
    Driver        "radeonhd"
    VendorName    "AMD"
    Option        "AGPMode" "4"
    Option        "EnablePageFlip" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier        "Screen0"
    Device            "Card0"
    Monitor            "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes         "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode        0666
EndSection

zyon · 2009-04-20 10:44:45

Nobody!? *push*

hb · 2009-05-17 16:52:47

hi.
i had some problems with radeonhd (with a hd3300), but my problem was that dpms shut off my monitor after 1-3 minutes of inactivity, regardless of video playback or timeout settings.

Perhaps dpms is a problem here, too. Have you tried to disable it (e. g. with 'xset -dpms')?
I think it `s enabled per default if you don`t define otherwise in xorg.conf...

dan.boff · 2009-05-17 19:53:48

have you tried you the normal "radeon" driver, or do you need hdmi output?

jarav · 2009-05-19 06:19:48

This has been happening to me too lately. I have an Nvidia card (GeForce Go 7300). A dmesg|tail gives :
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec

This is either the cause or the effect. I have read elsewhere that disabling hpet through a grub option may prevent this sort of freeze. Can anyone confirm this?

milaan · 2009-08-09 09:03:23

I have also these weird freezes, with both free and non-free nvidia driver. I have also a geforce 7300.

jarav, did you solve your problem since then?

jarav · 2009-08-09 11:18:44

No. The freezes still continue.

milaan · 2009-08-10 17:26:58

That is not cool... :'(

chaseadam · 2009-08-30 13:33:28

I agree with hb. There appears to be a problem with DPMS in the radeonhd driver (module version = 1.2.5) where the screen will shut off after short periods of time, even with activity.

ATI Radeon HD 3200

Andrwe · 2009-09-01 12:03:16

Please try the git-version of radeonhd if this doesn't solve your problem have a look in the bugtracker https://bugs.freedesktop.org/.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-04-14 21:03:11

[radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#2 2009-04-20 10:44:45

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#3 2009-05-17 16:52:47

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#4 2009-05-17 19:53:48

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#5 2009-05-19 06:19:48

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#6 2009-08-09 09:03:23

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#7 2009-08-09 11:18:44

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#8 2009-08-10 17:26:58

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#9 2009-08-30 13:33:28

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

#10 2009-09-01 12:03:16

Re: [radeonhd] sometimes screen goes blank

Board footer