Bug 461727

Summary: Radeon R430 broken experience (modesetting, X)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Danny Baumann <dannybaumann>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: Dave Airlie <airlied>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: rawhideCC: mcepl, xgl-maint
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Xorg log including crash backtrace
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dmesg output of modesetting oops
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dmesg output with kernel from comment #2
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Dmesg output
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Xorg log none

Description Danny Baumann 2008-09-10 08:55:42 UTC
Created attachment 316291 [details]
Xorg log including crash backtrace

Description of problem:
- Using kernel modesetting, the kernel oopses (see attached crash_dmesg.txt)
- 2D in X is unusably slow, no matter if compositing is used or not
- Trying to enable compiz leads to an X server crash (see attached Xorg.0.log.old)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Rawhide as of 09/10/08

How reproducible:
Always.

Comment 1 Danny Baumann 2008-09-10 08:56:30 UTC
Created attachment 316292 [details]
dmesg output of modesetting oops

Comment 2 Dave Airlie 2008-09-11 06:43:51 UTC
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/airlied/task_819391/

contains a kernel with a test patch against the nvidia agp driver please see if it lets modesetting start if not attach the dmesg from it please.

Comment 3 Danny Baumann 2008-09-13 13:55:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/airlied/task_819391/
> 
> contains a kernel with a test patch against the nvidia agp driver please see if
> it lets modesetting start if not attach the dmesg from it please.

Twofold results:
- No kernel oops anymore.
- As soon as the radeon module is initialized, the monitor attached to the DVI port doesn't get any signal anymore.

Comment 4 Danny Baumann 2008-09-13 13:56:59 UTC
Created attachment 316667 [details]
dmesg output with kernel from comment #2

Comment 5 Danny Baumann 2008-09-25 06:03:17 UTC
As of today's Rawhide (kernel 2.6.27-0.352.rc7.git1.fc10.i686, drv-ati 6.9.0-14.fc10.i386)

- X has somewhat reasonable speed
- kernel modesetting makes the screen go blank, but bootup continues

dmesg excerpt:
ATOM BIOS: RADEON X800XL                                                               
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=262144K, accessible=262144K, BAR=262144K
[drm:drm_agp_bind_ttm] *ERROR* AGP Bind memory failed
[drm:drm_ttm_bind] *ERROR* Couldn't bind backend.
[drm:drm_buffer_object_validate] *ERROR* Failed moving buffer.
[drm:radeon_alloc_gart_objects] *ERROR* failed to allocate ring - most likely an AGP driver bug

Comment 6 Danny Baumann 2008-10-06 13:58:27 UTC
Update for today's rawhide (kernel .391, drv-ati -21):

- Modesetting works fine
- When modesetting is used, X is broken - it shows a random gibberish background with a mouse cursor which can be moved for a short time and then hangs completely)
- VT change is not possible at this point
- X works just fine without kernel modesetting

Will attach current dmesg and Xorg.0.log

Comment 7 Danny Baumann 2008-10-06 13:59:08 UTC
Created attachment 319560 [details]
Dmesg output

Comment 8 Danny Baumann 2008-10-06 13:59:44 UTC
Created attachment 319561 [details]
Xorg log

Comment 9 Matěj Cepl 2008-10-08 22:15:52 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464896 ***