Description of problem: Following recent updates (unfortunately not sure exactly which ones caused this) my machine no longer has any display when using the radeon driver. The machine boots, I see the first boot, then the virtual terminal, but I never see the X login prompt, at this point I am unable to switch to a VT, so I assume that the machine has locked hard at this point. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I've listed most of the xorg rpms (minus inappropriate drv rpms) xorg-x11-twm-1.0.1-3.1 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2 xorg-x11-xkb-utils-1.0.2-2.1 xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.1-2.1 xorg-x11-utils-7.1-2.fc6 xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2 xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-15.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6 xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-4.fc6 xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.2.1-4 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.2-3.1 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2 xorg-x11-drivers-7.1-3 xorg-x11-apps-7.1-3.fc6 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2 How reproducible: Every time :o( Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install of FC6 (no upgrade and no ATI fglrx binary drivers ever installed) 2. X with the radeon driver works 3. update to the latest errata with "yum update -y" 5. Reboot and watch X fail to start Actual results: No x display using the radeon driver. It is possible to get a display using the vesa driver, but it does not support the resolution of my widescreen monitor. Expected results: Should have a display. Additional info: will attach xorg logs, lspci and anything else that could be useful.
Created attachment 142664 [details] xorg log with no display
Created attachment 142665 [details] display working with the vesa driver
Created attachment 142666 [details] dmesg output
Created attachment 142667 [details] lspci output
Forgot to mention: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6 Am going to try updating xorg-x11-drv-ati from rawhide (plus deps) Will also try rawhide kernel if still no change.
Have updated the packages listed below from rawhide: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: xorg-x11-drv-ati i386 6.6.3-1.fc7 development 345 k xorg-x11-server-Xorg i386 1.1.1-54.fc7 development 3.0 M No rawhide kernel available at this time.
Created attachment 142676 [details] modified xorg.conf with some radeon specific tweaks to try and make things work Still no joy with the rawhide packages, uploaded modified xorg.conf that I'm currently using and xorg log file.
Created attachment 142677 [details] xorg log file with rawhide rpms
Installed following packages from rawhide: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: xorg-x11-drv-ati-debuginfo i386 6.6.3-1.fc7 development-debuginfo 2.0 M xorg-x11-server-debuginfo i386 1.1.1-54.fc7 development-debuginfo 39 M Final test reboot with debuginfo packages in place, will post log files etc.
Created attachment 142678 [details] xorg.conf file as used to generate the recent log messages
Created attachment 142679 [details] latest xorg.log generated with debuginfo rpms in place
Take a look in your /var/log/messages for avc messages, or try disabling SELinux with system-config-securitylevel.
Apparently, SELinux wasn't enabled. I asked for the radeon DRI to be disabled, adding the line: alias radeon off to /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting
[root@luggage ~]# sestatus SELinux status: disabled [root@luggage ~]# It's not selinux, and from the look of it, an aborted lockup has this footprint in /var/log/messages Dec 3 10:58:03 luggage smartd[2798]: smartd version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Dec 3 10:58:03 luggage smartd[2798]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Dec 3 10:58:03 luggage smartd[2798]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Dec 3 10:58:03 luggage smartd[2798]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Dec 3 10:58:03 luggage smartd[2798]: Device: /dev/hda, opened Dec 3 10:58:04 luggage smartd[2798]: Device: /dev/hda, found in smartd database. Dec 3 10:58:04 luggage smartd[2798]: Device: /dev/hda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Dec 3 10:58:04 luggage smartd[2798]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Dec 3 10:58:05 luggage smartd[2800]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2800. Dec 3 10:58:06 luggage pcscd: winscard.c:219:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found Dec 3 10:58:06 luggage last message repeated 3 times Dec 3 10:58:06 luggage kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 Dec 3 10:58:06 luggage kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 Dec 3 10:58:06 luggage kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 on minor 0 Dec 3 10:58:07 luggage kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Dec 3 10:58:07 luggage kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode Dec 3 10:58:07 luggage kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode Dec 3 10:58:08 luggage kernel: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map Dec 3 10:58:08 luggage kernel: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode Dec 3 10:58:08 luggage kernel: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs The next line is... Dec 3 11:00:37 luggage syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Which is the first line of booting up.
Putting on needinfo re comment #13
Yup, that gets me a display. So, what has changed in the last ~4-5 weeks that would have broken DRI with the radeon driver?
Well I've ditched this hardware (never did completely solve the problem) and opened up a new bug, with widescreen displays on intel gfx hardware. Marking this bug as closed (deferred) due to no longer having the hardware to test. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226978