Bug 818728 - KMS with ATI card (TURKS) fails to boot
Summary: KMS with ATI card (TURKS) fails to boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-03 19:57 UTC by Ben Boeckel
Modified: 2014-02-05 11:57 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-05 11:57:49 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dmesg output (3.83 KB, text/x-log)
2012-05-17 17:55 UTC, Ben Boeckel
no flags Details
dmesg output with drm.debug=4 (96.78 KB, application/octet-stream)
2012-06-14 17:43 UTC, Ben Boeckel
no flags Details

Description Ben Boeckel 2012-05-03 19:57:42 UTC
Description of problem:
With the following card, booting fails if KMS is enabled. Passing nomodeset on the kernel command line allows vesa to work at least. When booting, the screen(s) come up with corruption with some of the buffers from the last boot on the screen tiled. What appears to be dmesg output is also there, paused. No keyboard input seems to be accepted. Ctrl+Alt+Del does trigger a reboot though. Don't know if it's a regression; never tried F15 or F16.

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Turks [AMD Radeon HD 6500]

Will try with the newest kernel version (kernel-3.3.4-3.fc17.x86_64) soon.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.3.2-8.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Comment 1 Ben Boeckel 2012-05-17 16:47:13 UTC
The last message in the output seems to be "Loading TURKS microcode". This is with the latest Rawhide kernel (3.4.0-0.rc7.git1.1.fc18.x86_64).

Comment 2 Ben Boeckel 2012-05-17 17:55:46 UTC
Created attachment 585285 [details]
dmesg output

dmesg output after booting with nomodeset and then running:

rmmod radeon && modprobe radeon modeset=1

Comment 3 Ben Boeckel 2012-05-17 17:59:11 UTC
The machine still runs and chugs along just fine but the monitors are getting no signal.

Comment 4 Ben Boeckel 2012-06-14 16:04:33 UTC
This also happens with Fedora 17 GA.

Comment 5 Ben Boeckel 2012-06-14 17:43:03 UTC
Created attachment 591886 [details]
dmesg output with drm.debug=4

Comment 6 Gökçen Eraslan 2012-08-13 07:45:22 UTC
Still reproducable with 

xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.14.4-6.20120602git930760942.fc17.x86_64 

and 

kernel-3.5.1-1.fc17.x86_64

Comment 7 Ben Boeckel 2013-06-13 03:42:12 UTC
This is still occurring in F18 as of a week or two ago (I'll try again when I do the upgrade to F19 on the relevant machine).

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