Bug 679912 - [RV530] [KMS:X1600M] macbookpro gnome-shell does not start on radeon mobility X1600
Summary: [RV530] [KMS:X1600M] macbookpro gnome-shell does not start on radeon mobility...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 15
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jérôme Glisse
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-23 20:28 UTC by Ralph Giles
Modified: 2018-04-11 13:49 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-08-07 16:27:59 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
xorg.conf (321 bytes, text/plain)
2011-02-25 05:07 UTC, Ralph Giles
no flags Details
Xorg.0.log (41.37 KB, text/plain)
2011-02-25 05:07 UTC, Ralph Giles
no flags Details
dmesg-output (124.09 KB, text/plain)
2011-02-25 05:09 UTC, Ralph Giles
no flags Details
messages_20110225 (317.83 KB, text/plain)
2011-02-25 05:13 UTC, Ralph Giles
no flags Details

Description Ralph Giles 2011-02-23 20:28:36 UTC
Description of problem:

Booting a LiveCD on an older Macbook Pro with an Radeon Mobility X1600 gpu, I got the fallback gnome-panel instead of gnome-shell, even though this chip supports the necessary features and has had good 3D and compositor support with the radeon driver in previous releases.

Running 'gnome-shell --replace' from a terminal window results in 'Shell killed with signal 11' and no window manager.

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

I'm using gfx_test_week_20110221_i368.iso

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot live CD with default options
2. Click 'login'
3. Observe desktop
  
Actual results:

I get a background wallpaper and a Gnome 2 panel (mis-themed) with typical menu, applets, pager, etc.

Expected results:

Shiny Gnome 3 desktop.

Additional info:

Card is ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600] [1002:71c5]

After login, gnome-panel is running, gnome-shell and nautilus are not.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-02-24 23:38:31 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, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.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.

Comment 2 Ralph Giles 2011-02-25 05:07:05 UTC
Created attachment 480921 [details]
xorg.conf

There was now /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This file was the sole entry in /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/ as 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf

Comment 3 Ralph Giles 2011-02-25 05:07:53 UTC
Created attachment 480922 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 4 Ralph Giles 2011-02-25 05:09:42 UTC
Created attachment 480923 [details]
dmesg-output

Comment 5 Ralph Giles 2011-02-25 05:13:10 UTC
Created attachment 480924 [details]
messages_20110225

Copy of /var/log/messages

Comment 6 Dave Airlie 2011-03-19 08:51:16 UTC
can you retry with a later CD, it should be working fine, I think the detection sw was broken.

Comment 7 Ralph Giles 2011-03-21 22:46:35 UTC
I tried with 'Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso' sha1 9d8bbb62fc9fc3e497cd00fe3134521ef0ef4f7c and got fallback again.

There's a note in .xsession-errors:

gnome-session[1454]: WARNING: Had to kill '/usr/libexec/gnome-session-is-accelerated' helper

Running /usr/libexec/gnome-session-is-accelerated manually from the terminal after start-up promptly returns '0' (true).

Was there a newer image I should try?

Comment 8 Jérôme Glisse 2011-03-29 21:26:30 UTC
Can you try one from feb 25
http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/15-Alpha/Live/i686/

It works here on X1950, thought maybe the fact that this is a mac and with no atombios or buggy one might come into play here

Comment 9 Ralph Giles 2011-03-29 21:59:42 UTC
The Alpha Live CD from February 25 (Feb 26 at the link you give) is the one I used in Comment 7.

$ sha256sum *.iso
7e53e4b9ad58f996a8c0e8ab890b58def77070b5ddafd63648dfd6190644d4e1  Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso

which matches http://download.fedora.devel.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/15-Alpha/Live/i686/Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-CHECKSUM

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