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I think I'm affected by this bug, got it first time with 9.04, but since
fglrx worked (installed it from console alt+f1), I didn't care much.
Only difference is that I actually can change to vt's, but it freezes if
I change back to X after being a vt.
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I have fixed this problem for me. Dell Optiplex GX-150 1gz, 512mb ram,
Intel I815 graphics card. Ubuntu 9.04
I did a gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
added to the Device: section
Option DRI off
and save
This is the only way i found fixes the problem, and yes if i take that
out of the
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fuzzyBSc, please open a new bug for your issue. This bug is closed and
the issue here was fixed in Feisty.
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In this case there is also an easy workaround available: Disable
fastwrites and adjust AGP speed in the BIOS settings and/or xorg.conf
(Those who have been running Edgy for years probably know this by now.
This issue was most critical for new installations and live CDs.)
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but edgy is still supported apparently... April 2008. if this is how
the supported for 18 months are supported then you might as well not
bother supporting them at all.
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support means more like security updates... driver updates are risky,
and the focus is always on the current development version.
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I have a Dell Dimension E310 with an Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04) and a PCI ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) I can use the Intel 915 (it only
has one output) or I can use the Radeon 7000 in Single and Dual
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Checking the src/radeon_driver.c and src/radeon_dri.c did not confirm
my suspicions. On the contrary, AFAICT, fast writes are always off (not
just by default, and whatever xorg.conf says) because of patch
102_radeon_fix_agp_fastwrite.diff. However, it seems that the default is
off (without this
Resubmitted Radeon 9250 PCI error as bug # 114520
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I have a (Club 3d) ATI Radeon 9250 PCI 128MB (in an old Dell Optiplex
GX1 with 384MB so PCI was the only option). Am running feisty with
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.3 installed. Same problem. vesa driver
works OK. ati driver gives the black screen and console freeze every
time I try. If I
Mike, you have another problem, please file a new bug. You have a PCI
card and this bug is only about AGP cards.
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I have a similar bug on my ubuntu test box with the following specs.
Specificiations
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
RevisMion history /
Initial install Dapper Drake, Upgraded From Dapper To Edgy and from Edgy to
Feisty.
CPU AMD athlon 64 3200 +
Video card Ati Radeon X800 pro.
Installed FGLRX driver.
In Feisty final, the same symptoms occur.
The only different thing is that when X fails to initialize, I somehow managed
to reach the login in tty ( I couldn't do it before).
From here I could edit the xorg.conf, and confirm that vesa driver was being
used.
Since this bug is related to ati
I'd like to add that this bug is still an issue in Feisty Final 7.04.
Downloaded Desktop AMD64 version using bittorrent, and burnt to both DVD
and CD using slow burn speeds.
AMD64 3500, 2GB RAM, Radeon X800 PCIE, ASUS A8V (I think).
No matter what I hit in the main Ubuntu boot screen, it shows
No matter what I hit in the main Ubuntu boot screen,
If it crashes with the safe graphics mode (- vesa driver instead of
ati) it means it has nothing to do with this bug. From what you explain,
it crashes before X is even started.
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I confirm this same problem in Feisty beta 7.04
My laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo PI1536, Core Duo T2300 1,66, 1Gb
RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
Neither safe mode, vga options nor noapic, nolapic makes any difference.
I can't access TTYs (there's no login), so I cannot make the trick of
Maybe a xorg vesa option could be added in the boot menu for these situations
?
The Safe Graphics Mode in the CD boot menu is supposed to do exactly that, to
force the use of the vesa driver. Anyway, since the X1?00 cards are not
supported by the ati driver, the vesa driver should
I'm not sure if it is related but during tweak testing, I've found that
the combination of setting the AGPMode and AGPFastWrite somehow
conflict. For me setting them both locks up xorg. So I leave out
AGPFastWrite which makes it default to off on both Edgy and Feisty.
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It seems like AGPFastWrite is again enabled by default in Feisty. I
installed Feisty Beta and upgraded March 31st on a friend's PC with ATI
Radeon 8500 (R200) and it would always hang after using for instance
glxgears. I added Option AGPFastWrite false and now it runs stable.
The man page says the
I have the same problem on my computer. The sceen is blank after load of
kernel. I have 2 cards on this pc :
1 pci ati and 1 agp : nvidia
Screen was pliugged only on nvidia but xorg was condigured to use ati
card. Screen was good in xorg. After edited xorg.conf and replace the
device line from
Checking the src/radeon_driver.c and src/radeon_dri.c did not confirm my
suspicions. On the contrary, AFAICT, fast writes are always off (not
just by default, and whatever xorg.conf says) because of patch
102_radeon_fix_agp_fastwrite.diff. However, it seems that the default is
off (without this
I am experiencing the same black screen with an XGI Volari card in Edgy.
In Dapper there are no issues to boot
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I think I understand now.
Either I use
feisty-desktop-i386.iso (or 64 bit version) herd 4
or
I change the bios-settings for AGP from 8X to 4X and/or disable fast writing,
then install the ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso (or 64 bit version)
and then install the fix from
Same problem. AMD 64 (3000+) / Asus moterhbord VIA chipser / ATI RADION 9800 PRO
Desktop disk (i386) should work, gave the Gnome desktop on another pc (still,
mouse didn't move, 2 X bad luck with trying Ubuntu)
If I remove splach+quit from the command line I get all the message and
no longer
homeuser, did you try Kyle's packages from comment #193?
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Same error on my machine. I try to load the latest feisty release and I
am contemplated with a black screen and a white cursor in the corner
right after the ubuntu logo disappears.
My specs are as follows:
Dell Optiplex GX260
Intel Pentium 4 1.8ghz
1GB Ram
Ati Radeon 9200
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Hi, you should file a separate bug report, as the problem you are
having is different (this one doesn't have a cursor in the corner) and
this bug seems to have been fixed in feisty.
Eric
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Same error on my machine. I try to load the latest feisty
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Sorry :
I entirely disagree with your diagnosis :
It has also become confusing because of people like you who obviously
experience a different problem but insist on posting here again and again. It
should have been painfully obvious for you from the beginning, but as it isn't,
I will point it
As can be read in the bug description, this bug is only about AGP cards.
Please don't mix up diagnosis with symptoms: a black screen can have
very many reasons, which are not the same bug. We need to pinpoint each
of these reasons in order to fix them, and this must be done in separate
bug
All this has become very very confusing ! ; can we split bug reports between
i586 machines and AMD 64 machines ; also some people about fix speak about AGP
cards but most of the new ATI video cards are PCIE can we here sort out the
types of video cards ?
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It has not become confusing because there are 32bit and 64bit reports,
nor because there are AGP and PCI-E users, and there is no need to split
the reports. Each time both groups experience the same problems.
It has become a little confusing because of people with x600 and x700
cards, who really
amd64 is here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~kyle/xserver-xorg-video-
ati_6.6.2-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
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Tormod, my bad, it doesn't incorporate those changes. I'll upload
-ubuntu6 rebuilt as soon as possible.
They'll be available in the same place.
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http://people.ubuntu.com/~kyle/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.2-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
http://people.ubuntu.com/~kyle/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb
Incorporates the fixes from the other bug. Sorry I overlooked this
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Kyle, I had applied both fd.o git
295823d0879a5b574bb79843a6acd43adb9259e5 (radeon: Default to leaving AGP
transfer mode and fast writes unchanged) and
c54a31565e3ea50f1af7b81b1bf0c0e437099f47 (radeon: fixup fastwrites to be
always off). I believe your patch was one line taken from the latter. Do
Monica/Tormod, thanks for your instructions. Before testing, I applied
Kyle's latest package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~kyle/xserver-xorg-
video-ati_6.6.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb.
- If you set the AGP speed in the BIOS from 8x to 4x, does the bug
disappear?
My BIOS only recognizes 1x and 4x AGP,
I tried the Herd 3 CD, and the bug is fixed for me as well!
(8x agp, and no freeze. no additional tweaks needed.)
Thanks to everyone who contributed :)
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Monica/Tormod, thanks for your instructions. Before testing, I applied
Kyle's latest package
ericw, why don't you leave the BIOS at auto? You said you don't have
any freezes then. Would be much better than disabling DRI.
Kyle, the problem seems to attack amd64 systems in particular. Can you
build an amd64 package for Edgy please?
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Thanks for building the package for Edgy. I tried it and still had the
same problem. The first reboot came up fine, but upon the second I got
the black screen and had to bounce the machine a few times after that
before it would start X.
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Arthur, I am not convinced you have the exact same bug. You did not
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setting.
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I downloaded the herd3 Kubuntu feisty-desktop-i386.iso and tried it as a
Live CD (not the installation). The bug is fixed. It boots up and goes
right to the KDE desktop without any intervention (no safe graphics mode
necessary, no boot parameters, no editing the xorg.conf). My BIOS is
still set to
What can I do to confirm that it is the same bug? I had filed a separate
report but it was marked a duplicate of this issue.
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As you write in your bug report https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/68497 it only happens sometimes, not
everytime, so that sounds like a different bug.
What you can try:
- If you set the AGP speed in the BIOS from 8x to 4x, does the bug disappear?
- If you comment
Arthur, set the AGP speed in BIOS to 4X, or set the 8X option in
xorg.conf. If this does not fix it, it is not so sure it is the same
bug.
Kyle, I understand your new package turns off FastWrite, but it doesn't
do anything about the AGP speed? My test package from comment #162 had
also some AGP
If the Feisty package requires an upgrade of libc6 on Edgy, I would not
recommend to use it. Try rather to recompile your own Edgy version, it's
easy if you follow the instructions I referred to earlier.
Please try to run the Feisty Herd-3 Desktop CD that probably will be
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It doesn't seem to work for me. I upgraded my edgy to feisty, (I now
have xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.2-0ubuntu6) and I still get the same
symptoms (freeze when agp speed set to 8x in BIOS and DRI enabled in
xorg.conf, no freeze if DRI disabled or AGP speed set to auto in
BIOS).
I'll try again
Edgy built deb for i386 available at:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~kyle/xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.6.2-0ubuntu5_i386.deb
Please, more data points the better.
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Thanks for building the package for Edgy. I tried it and still had the
same problem. The first reboot came up fine, but upon the second I got
the black screen and had to bounce the machine a few times after that
before it would start X.
Edgy built deb for i386 available at:
Nicely done, Kyle. Thanks so much for fixing this for Feisty and to
everyone else who contributed to resolving this issue - especially
Tormod, of course, who did all the heavy lifting.
Quash
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Quash: so the new package fixes it for you? Did you try it with the
bios speed set to 8x, dri enabled, and no Option AGPMode 8 in
xorg.conf? (which would have gaurnteed a freeze before, right)
Just curious because my preliminary test of the new package didn't fix
it, but of course it could have
How can we access these packages for test through a test repositry for Edgy ?
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You can download the Feisty packages directly, they should install fine in Edgy
as well:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/x11/xserver-xorg-video-ati
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Tormod,
ok I have checked and I can actually downoad this ati package including libc6
necessary package but the problem is that I am using fglrx driver with 3D
rendering in xorg and installation of this ati xorg package forces me to
desinstall fglrx packages including 59 other packages ! ; so
Fixed packages should be on Herd 3 cds generated this week. Please, if
you're affected by this, please test so I can start the process for
updating edgy.
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Fix is entirely done in X driver, rejecting from linux-source-2.6.17.
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
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Kyle what is the meaning of this message ! ; is the problem solved and if so
what is to be done ?
Daniel
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Fix uploaded for feisty. Should be included in Herd 3 livecd. Cloning
for Edgy.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Kyle McMartin
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu Edgy)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu Edgy)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
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For SRU: Turning on AGP Fast Writes can hang the chipset on certain
combinations of AGP Radeon cards and northbridges. The fix is a small
patch to xorg-video-ati which disables fast writes unconditionally as
they are only a (small) performance enhancement.
On Edgy, this will diff suffice to
Arthur, did you try my test package? Are you sure it is the same issue -
agp speed settings?
Jonathan, you must file a bug on the xserver-xorg-video-i810 package.
Daniel, it takes just a few minutes to build your own package. See the
howto-build.txt in my download directory.
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I just want to recall that in my case the freezing black screen no access to
console bug at boot is not systematic but once in a while and that when it
happens I just have to reboot again to go trough sometimes I have to retry
twice.
I have AMD 64 + ATI Radeon X300 PCIE
Daniel
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upstream bug. This is supposed to fix the original issue of AGP speed
mismatch. I also included the patch for bug #28925. If someone wants to
build another flavour, the patches are in the same directory:
Tormod why i386 ! I thought it was both an issue for AMD 64 bit and ATI video
card.
Daniel.
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Sorry, I don't have access to any amd64 systems, I can only build for i386
myself.
You might be right in that this bug is only limited to amd64 systems (oh no, I
have to go through the 160 comments again :) ) Anyway, if someone else can
build amd64 packages and test them, it would still be
I am having this issue with an ATI video card on a 32 bit P4.
On 1/23/07, Daniel Moyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tormod why i386 ! I thought it was both an issue for AMD 64 bit and ATI
video card.
Daniel.
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I've got the same issue, where I will try to restart X and it will black
out with the blinking cursor.
However, I have an Intel GMA 950 using the i810 driver.
Please also note I am using Ubuntu 6.10 x86-64.
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Hi I`m experiencing the same problems described for this bug, I was able to
install using the alternative cd however once the installation is completed It
runs it trouble.
When I restart my machine I get to login screen but seconds latter it crashes
either blocking and keeping the image or by
The same problem.
HW:
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT EM64T
Graphic card: Ati sapphire radeon X700 on PCI-EXPRESS x16
Mainboard: Foxconn 12/25/2004-Grantsdale-6A79DFK9C-00
Chipset: Intel Grantsdale i915P
I tried theese live cd´s:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS x86
Ubuntu 6.10 x86
Ubuntu 6.10 x84_64
Problem on all of
Forgot to mention download alternative cd install in text mode
when you restart choose safe mode option.Wait for command prompt type lspci
get the busid number for your pci graphics card mine was 01:00:0 it might list
two use the vga one.Then back at the command prompt type sudo
Still a problem as at 17/1/2006.
Nforce2 board
9250
Matrox PCI
Athlon Mobile (Clocked!!)
Black screen and sound but no Install screen after the Ubuntu loading
sequence. Many CD's both BT and direct downloads of 6.10.
I appreciate what the developers are doing regards getting the screen
config
to fix this issue start in safe mode and wait for command prompt may take
awhile then do lspci look for ati vga.Then write down pci bus number mine was
1:00:0 restart again in safe mode and wait for the command promt.Then do sudo
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg you will then see options to set up
Monika Krug's first solution worked for me.
Bug description:
Running AMD64 version of Ubuntu 6.10 LiveCD, the system hangs with a black
screen during boot (somewhere after changing the console font). The system is
totally dead: I cannot change the status of caps lock, get a console with
** Bug watch removed: Freedesktop Bugzilla #8079
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** Bug watch added: Freedesktop Bugzilla #9284
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9284
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Okay, I also get a black screen with an outlined x in the center trying to
boot up the Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Live CD. Tried everything and then came to
ByteJuggler's fix and it worked to at least get me to a desktop.
my system hangs with black screen when i try to reboot/shutdown . i am
using updated kubuntu edgy. if i disable dri from xorg.conf, then it
seems to work fine. but it happens at reboot/shutdown time, not at
bootup. do i need to start the new bug ?
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Maybe this is of interest to somebody - a different solution was shown there.
Instead of commenting out DRI or lowering the AGP speed in the BIOS, add
Option AGPMode 8
to the device section of the graphics card in the xorg.conf.
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I would do it, but I don't know what to select for version (would XOrg
6.7.0 be right?) and for Component (DRM modules?).
BTW for that bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8079 you
suggested changing the AGP speed to 8x, refering to this bug report.
However, the solution here is to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9284
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