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blue_tiger300

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2018-03-19

Posts: 6

X won't start with latest xf86-video-ati 18.1.0-1

Today I upgraded my packages which included "xf86-video-ati(1:18.1.0-1).
After a reboot X would no longer load. Just got a blinking cursor.
I was not able to get into a console and had to use an external box to downgrade to xf86-video-ati(1:18.0.1-2).
My graphics card:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430] [1002:68e1]
	Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Caicos [Radeon HD 5450] [174b:6000]
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
	Kernel modules: radeon

Coredump info:

           PID: 14503 (Xorg)
           UID: 0 (root)
           GID: 0 (root)
        Signal: 6 (ABRT)
     Timestamp: Thu 2018-09-20 19:46:35 CEST (22min ago)
  Command Line: /usr/lib/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{37b4c9f4-17a0-46b9-b926-e753acfa25fd} -background none -noreset -displayfd 20 -seat seat0 vt1
    Executable: /usr/lib/Xorg
 Control Group: /system.slice/sddm.service
          Unit: sddm.service
         Slice: system.slice
       Boot ID: 4c2f3239592f45279ade3caf51fa3898
    Machine ID: a0b459db32584e02935351983d1f29c4
      Hostname: rohan
       Storage: none
       Message: Process 14503 (Xorg) of user 0 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 14503:
                #0  0x00007f3c1c449d7f raise (libc.so.6)
                #1  0x00007f3c1c434672 abort (libc.so.6)
                #2  0x0000561bf4374cca OsAbort (Xorg)
                #3  0x0000561bf4374dbf FatalError (Xorg)
                #4  0x0000561bf438234e n/a (Xorg)
                #5  0x00007f3c1c449e00 __restore_rt (libc.so.6)
                #6  0x00007f3c18cf9582 n/a (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so (deleted))

Anybody else having the same problem?
Thanks

boschlobes

Member

Registered: 2018-09-24

Posts: 1

Re: X won't start with latest xf86-video-ati 18.1.0-1

Edit (a day later): I might have been wrong. After a day of no artifacts, I'm getting them again. Probably aging hardware.

Yes, it caused problems for me. I did a full sync and upgrade yesterday, had some pixel glitches I thought were the monitor's fault, and today noticed bigger problems -- offset horizontal lines, then jiggling, and going blank black when a window with sufficiently-complex contents appeared (large browser window, small browser window with images, small window full of icons). This is with no hardware acceleration (that always gave me errors and a corrupt picture) on a Radeon 4000 series ATI.

I downgraded back to xf86-video-ati 1:18.0.1-2 and everything looks fine.

If it helps to have more data on this issue, here's the card's lspci output:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 27
        NUMA node: 0
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at fe8f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq- AuxPwr- TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
                LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s (ok), Width x16 (ok)
                        TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported
                         AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS-
                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled
                         AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn-
                LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
                         Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
                         Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
                         EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 00000000fee04004  Data: 4024
        Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
        Kernel modules: radeon

Last edited by boschlobes (2018-09-25 00:21:31)