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kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

[solved] amd64 random bootup crashes

laptop asusX51rt,
graphics: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M],
hdd: sata
cpu: intel dual core
default instalation, default kernel, opensource ati driver,
i don't use kdm or gdm, or any other startup manager
i'm not using testing repository, but use AUR.

2 weaks ago, i installed amd64 on asusX51rl. Since, then, system randomly crashes at startup (when it boots up, i never had a crash)
there are 3 bootup times, when it hangups
  1) at startup beginning, when initrd finishes load (at that moment, when resolution of konsole changes)
  2) when everything has loaded, and all load info disapears, and konsole changes to login mode (i think that it crashes at this moment)
  3) when i try start X
   
all this is happing randomly. I tried to restart laptop about 5 times, and usualy, i hangs up. Often when i turnoff computer, after hangup, it hangups once again. Though, it never crashed 3 times in row.

At all 3 times, there is some video activity. So does this is graphics problem?
the most mysterious place, is whet system hangups, in 2 place.

i have arch32 on other laptop, with intel graphics, and it works fine.

When i open  *faillog* and *lastlog* with vi after crash, i see only "^@^@" (is it corrupted?)

#uname -a

Linux skaistykla 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 10:03:24 CEST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

#rc.conf

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal alsa)

#lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 5a31 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
08:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
08:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
08:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
08:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

#errors.log

Oct 30 22:20:12 skaistykla kernel: ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
Oct 30 22:20:12 skaistykla kernel: ACPI: I/O resource piix4_smbus [0xb00-0xb07] conflicts with ACPI region SMB0 [0xb00-0xb0f]
Oct 30 22:20:12 skaistykla kernel: [drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size] *ERROR* Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)

Last edited by kenshis (2009-11-01 14:59:10)

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: [solved] amd64 random bootup crashes

I had a similar situation trying to boot larch on my laptop - also with an ATI graphics card. The crashes always happened at your point 1) . What solved it was to add "nomodeset" to the kernel line in grub.

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kenshis

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Registered: 2008-12-16

Posts: 52

Re: [solved] amd64 random bootup crashes

After i added "nomodeset" to grub, i had no crash till tried start X, but *5 times in row my computer crashed when starting X*...

i downgraded to
ati-dri-7.4.4-1 (this definetly fixed)
xf86-video-ati-6.12.2-2 (dont know if this is relevent)

and now my system boots up without random craches