Bug 742102

Summary: Display broken at boot, fixed on suspend/resume (Radeon Xpress 200M)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Clymer <david>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-atiAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description David Clymer 2011-09-29 05:02:23 UTC
Description of problem:

When booting, the display gets corrupted when switching to graphics mode. The background is black with many vertical colored lines. Once in this state, the computer is virtually unusable. It boots normally, proceeding to the X login (I can hear the audio "ready for login" prompt). I can even type in my password and log in, blindly. However none of these things are displayed on the screen. Ctrl-Alt-Function keys do not get me to a terminal. The pci=nomsi kernel parameter seems to have no effect. All I can see is the vertical colored lines.

However, if I suspend or hibernate the computer, I can then resume and reliably get a working display.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I frankly don't know if this is a kernel bug, or an X driver bug, so I've supplied both below.

Linux mandarb 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Aug 30 14:43:52 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Name        : xorg-x11-drv-ati
Arch        : i686
Version     : 6.14.1
Release     : 2.20110525gitfe5c42f51.fc15


How reproducible:

Invariable. The display is always b0rk3d on boot, and always fixed on suspend/resume.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Boot laptop with default kernel parameters
2. Screen is black with vertical lines
3. Suspend/Hibernate
4. Resume
5. Display is fully functional.
  

Additional info:

I have installed Fedora Core 15 (Lovelock) on my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. It has an AMD sempron 3200+ processor, an ATI Xpress 200M GPU, and 2GB of RAM.

lspci:
 
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 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
00:12.0 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
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-09-30 23:41:20 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, relogin, and attach (if necessary after suspend/resume cycle)

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log*; check with grep Backtrace /var/log/Xorg* which logs might be the most interesting ones, send us at least Xorg.0.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.

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