Bug 533315
| Summary: | KMS:RV280:Radeon 9200 PRO Display is randomly blanked when system is not idle | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-ati | Assignee: | Jérôme Glisse <jglisse> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | bugzilla, mcepl, pur123, steven.chapel, vedran, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-06-11 19:51:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Michal Jaegermann
2009-11-06 02:18:46 UTC
I was thinking a bit what happens. I have no idea if that is a real mechanism but what I see in "Steps to Reproduce" _looks_ like a series badly synchronized screen updates, making a picture jump like from a broken movie projector, followed by a switch to an absolutely empty off-screen buffer where we stay for a while before switching back. A presence or absence of 'nomodeset' in a boot line does not make much difference. It seems to me that without 'nomodeset' the situation is even worse, i.e. a screen picture disappears more frequently. As another datapoint - booting without 'nomodeset' makes a screen saver NOT to turn off a display. That means that a display goes "black" but it is still going full blast. A display becomes only a dark gray instead of turning off and a power light on a monitor is lit up all the time. That after leaving a machine not touched by over an hour and a half. After booting the same configuration but _with_ 'nomodeset' a screen, after an expected while, really turns off and a power light starts slow blinking. When a display goes away inadvertentently it has a tone of something turned off but not one of "grayed out" by a not entirely functioning screensaver. I tried to play with "AccelMethod" and "EXAVSync" radeon driver options. They do not seem to influence visible outcomes in any way. i'm one of the bug#501601 "it was never fixed for me" users. i have radeon hardware. it's possible this is now a radeon specific issue. now running F12 and the problem is SEVERE. as soon as the monitor comes back from DPMS sleep it blanks every few seconds until I reboot. again, this is only the DVI panel. blanks are also exactly 3 seconds long (manually timed so += a few tenths each time). recommending severity be boosted. even if this only hits a few users, it's extremely severe when it does hit (i.e. makes system unusable) Please attach also your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if you have any), and output of the dmesg command to this bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance. no xorg.conf (fresh F12 install) dmesg will be attached momentarily... Created attachment 372402 [details]
dmesg output from affected system
Any update on this issue? It looks like I am having the same issue even with the latest update on Fedora 12. I have radeon 3450 hardware. Please help. Let me know if you need additional logs I no longer see this problem, and it could be related to the following configuration change: In Gnome: System -> Preferences -> Screensaver -> Power Management -> Display Put display to sleep when inactive for: 1 hour After having changed this, I have not had the random blanking a single time. Since then I haven't changed anything or done any other experiments. I have more kerneloops logged... sorry, mistaken bug, please remove. I replaced the card with another radeon (ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro]) which I happened to have around and it looks like that a display nastiness stopped. It become practically impossible to use a machine before that switch. That replacement card has only 64K of memory on it. Created attachment 389853 [details]
Xorg.0.log with a replacement video card
I haven't seen this problem for months. Tonight, I mistakenly created a huge tar file (over 10 GB) while my laptop was unplugged. While tar was causing lots of disk activity, the display kept dimming and then restoring, and my computer was nearly unusable. When I stopped the runaway tar command, all the dimming symptoms disappeared. This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Improving summary. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers [This triage is part of collective effort done by students of University of Rijeka Department of Informatics.] as far as i can tell, this does not happen in a fresh F13 install. consider fixed from my perspective... Thank you for reporting back. |