Bug 508594 (Kiboney)

Created attachment 349718 [details]
Xorg.log with FGLRX

Description of problem:

When I install FGLRX from the official ati website http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.36&lang=English , after reboot the whole system hangs on the fedora logo once it has completed - never goes to gdm. I could not reset the X server using ctrl+alt+backspace ( I did activate it on Fedora 11 ), and I could not use alt-f2, nothing.

I was able to to reboot into init 3, copy the log files, uninstall fglrx successfully and reboot back to the GUI without any crashes. After reproducing the problem several times, I played with xorg.conf and even told it not to load fglrx on startup, but no success. I tried installing the older, 9.5 version of the driver - screen turned black and halted on boot after the fedora logo.

Every time I boot back to the GUI, it reports me that the kernel has crashed. I copied the report somewhere, I will post it as soon as I find it.

I also found another person on the linuxquestions.org forums with the exact same problem - s/he also has HD 4850 and Fedora 11.

Kernel versions tested were 2.6.29.4 and 2.6.29.5, i586

I used to have Fedora 10, and the ati drivers from the official ati website worked perfectly.

After comparing the logs with fglrx and the logs without fglrx, I found some lines that may or may not be essential to solving this problem.

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Xorg.0.log

Most notable lines with fglrx

...
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.62.4
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.62                                 
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: May 20 2009 16:45:27
(II) Loading PCS database from /etc/ati/amdpcsdb
(WW) This ATI Proprietary Linux Driver does not guarantee support of video driver ABI higher than 2.0
(WW) Video driver ABI version of the X server is 5.0
(--) Chipset Supported AMD Graphics Processor (0x9442) found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
(II) AMD Video driver is running on a device belonging to a group targeted for this release
(II) AMD Video driver is signed
...
(==) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
(II) Loading sub module "xaa"
(II) LoadModule: "xaa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so
(II) Module xaa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.6.1.901, module version = 1.2.1
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(==) fglrx(0): NoDRI = NO
(==) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x00000000
(==) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000000
(==) fglrx(0): cpuFlags: 0x8000001d
(==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
...

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dmesg.log

...
uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
irq 22: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
Pid: 1200, comm: ifup-ipv6 Not tainted 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 #1
Call Trace:
 [<c04691d8>] __report_bad_irq+0x33/0x74
 [<c046930b>] note_interrupt+0xf2/0x14f
 [<c0468486>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x61/0x69
 [<c0469895>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x93/0xb9
 [<c0405a31>] do_IRQ+0x92/0xad
 [<c040452c>] common_interrupt+0x2c/0x40
handlers:
[<f8822666>] (azx_interrupt+0x0/0x109 [snd_hda_intel])
Disabling IRQ #22
firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 001320000079331f, S800
...




Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install v. 9.5 - 9.6 of ati driver from official website;
   with HD 4850 and F11
2. Reboot.
3. Attempt to fix by uninstalling from init 3.
  
Actual results:

The Fedora logo fills up, parts of the screen flickers a bit, then it freezes with the filled up Fedora logo

Expected results:

Fedora logo fills and gdm shows up seconds later.

Additional info:

I am quite new to posting bug reports, debugging linux and linux itself, so I may not get the whole concept of this.