[SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

countercraft · 2009-11-01 14:31:49

Hi all, I'm experiencing an annoying problem with Arch. I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, and in KDE 4.3.2, with compositing enabled, everytime I open a new window of any program and already having other window opened (for example, opening konsole and then opening chromium), X dies and goes to KDM login. I've made some tests and figured out that this occurs only when ati kernel modesetting is disabled and KWin's compositing is enabled. But when I enable modesetting, 3D compositing turns very slow. Is this problem ocurring with anyone else?
Everytime X dies, this message appears when I run dmesg:

[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[drm] Num pipes: 4
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs

Here's my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"                        
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"     
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0          
EndSection                                    

Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      330   210     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"             
        VendorName   "AUO"                  
        ModelName    "8174"                 
EndSection                                  

Section "Device"
        Option     "AccelDFS"           "true"
        Option     "AccelMethod"        "EXA"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by countercraft (2009-11-12 03:32:48)

kcr · 2009-11-01 19:24:55

Hi to everyone..
i have the same problem with the same error from dmesg.. my videocard is a radeon x1900xt with the last xf86-video-ati driver, xorg and mesa.. i did the -Syu this morning.. i toggled off kms because it was too slow and now because of this error i turned off the kwin 3D effects..

thanks in advance..

Last edited by kcr (2009-11-01 19:25:23)

countercraft · 2009-11-12 03:30:46

It's a bug in Mesa. Ubuntu has solved this with two patches: 109_revert-dma-reuse.patch and 108_fix_scissors_regression.patch (http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs … /changelog)

The patch is here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-x@li … 91092.html

You must rebuild mesa, libgl and your DRI driver with that patch.

Last edited by countercraft (2009-11-12 03:31:10)

jerik · 2009-12-01 17:48:00

This applies for me too. And my whole system became remarkably slower after I updated. How about you?

countercraft · 2009-12-02 03:12:22

It's slow only when KMS is enabled. Otherwise, it runs normally.

Mad Max · 2009-12-02 12:08:30

countercraft wrote:

Hi all, I'm experiencing an annoying problem with Arch. I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, and in KDE 4.3.2, with compositing enabled, everytime I open a new window of any program and already having other window opened (for example, opening konsole and then opening chromium), X dies and goes to KDM login. I've made some tests and figured out that this occurs only when ati kernel modesetting is disabled and KWin's compositing is enabled. But when I enable modesetting, 3D compositing turns very slow. Is this problem ocurring with anyone else?

Hi, I have extactly the same problem. Have you already rebuilt those patched mesa, libgl, and ati-dri?
This problem is really annoying, not least for coming so unexpected. But, as for me, I don't have time (and to be honest, any desire) to rebuild those with some cryptic patches. I just wonder, how such a big failure made into a mesa package?

[EDIT]: I reinstalled the KDE packages yesterday, I didn't encounter this problem in GNOME.

Last edited by Mad Max (2009-12-02 13:12:29)

countercraft · 2009-12-02 16:35:53

I rebuilt mesa, libgl and ati-dri with the patches, and it works normally. This problem only happens with KDE.

Mad Max · 2009-12-07 02:31:11

countercraft wrote:

I rebuilt mesa, libgl and ati-dri with the patches, and it works normally. This problem only happens with KDE.

Well, since there is still no patched mesa yet, I have to deal with it myself (like you did). Can you tell me, how do you patch those with this debian patch? Do you incliude it to the sources and then build? Because I tried those mesa-git, libgl-git and ati-dri-git versions from AUR (and from the GIT-server accordingly), but the problem persisted.

Thanks!

TheCycoONE · 2009-12-21 23:59:47

This affects me too: Radeon X1400 (r500), during most/all kwin effects. Has anyone filed a bug yet?

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#1 2009-11-01 14:31:49

[SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#2 2009-11-01 19:24:55

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#3 2009-11-12 03:30:46

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#4 2009-12-01 17:48:00

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#5 2009-12-02 03:12:22

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#6 2009-12-02 12:08:30

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#7 2009-12-02 16:35:53

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#8 2009-12-07 02:31:11

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

#9 2009-12-21 23:59:47

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg crashes with radeon xpress 200, KDE and no KMS

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