Bug#687461: Solved: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen (fwd)
Dear Debian Community, Alex Deucher and Debian community, Sorry for the delayed response. Installing firmware-linux-nonfree solved the problem - video on the AMD E-350/Radeon HD6310 works now. Notwithstanding the conversation I started, I think you can mark this as 'not-a-bug' for the problem I reported. Thanks again for your help and support. Looking forward to working with this distribution. Sincerely, Mike Evans On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:23:41 -0400 From: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com To: Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Alex, Thanks again. So nothing is solved, only disabled. The output of lsmod was for grepping the string radeon. Do you mean, I have to install the package firmware-linux-nonfree? Because firmware-linux-free is part of the build. yes. Thanks, Mike On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:17:38 -0400 From: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com To: Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Alex, Thanks for your reply. When I boot and append radeon.modeset=0 I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe (apparently classic) mode. This I can live with. $lsmod | grep firmware gives: radeon639188 0 ttm48725 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 27227 1 radeon drm 167670 3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon power_supply 13475 1 radeon i2c_algo_bit 12841 1 radeon i2c_core 23876 5 i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules. Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a bug at all)? radeon.modeset=0 disables the driver. If you want to use the driver and have acceleration, you'll need to install the firmware. Alex Thanks, Mike -- Michael Evans ph: 301-405-8763 Department of Geology ESSIC fax: 301-405-3597 University of Maryland email: mnev...@geol.umd.edu Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120 http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/ College Park, MD 20742 skype: skype.mnevans -- Michael Evans ph: 301-405-8763 Department of Geology ESSIC fax: 301-405-3597 University of Maryland email: mnev...@geol.umd.edu Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120 http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/ College Park, MD 20742 skype: skype.mnevans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
On Mit, 2012-09-19 at 19:09 +0200, Patrice Pillot wrote: Last weekend I experienced the same problem as described by original reporter while installing wheezy on an Asus K53E with an HD6320 (please note that it is not the same card while probably similar enough according to what I could read on the internet). While during installation (squeeze base system, dist-upgraded to wheezy, then xorg et al.) the kernel modules were configured so that the radeon module be loaded (confirmed by lsmod). All of the console/CLI only process went fine and, upon wheezy install, I noticed the usual modeset display changing (thiner fonts, ...) Yet, on first X run I got the wrong screen resolution (1024 instead of 1366) as reported here and I noticed that some vesafb (IIRC) was used with a message in xorg logs about failing to load radeon module (I don't have the box at hand to check more precisely, have to wait for this week-end for this). I then stopped X and forced the use of the radeon driver by editing xorg.conf which lead me to the garbage screen on the next X run. I then added the radeon.modeset=0 stanza to my grub configuration and this seemed to make the trick. Yet there are still some very annoying (and somehow scary) side effects : Those are all due to your card not being fully supported without KMS (modeset=0). We need to focus on solving the issues with KMS. Please provide logs for the issues described above. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
Hi, Last weekend I experienced the same problem as described by original reporter while installing wheezy on an Asus K53E with an HD6320 (please note that it is not the same card while probably similar enough according to what I could read on the internet). While during installation (squeeze base system, dist-upgraded to wheezy, then xorg et al.) the kernel modules were configured so that the radeon module be loaded (confirmed by lsmod). All of the console/CLI only process went fine and, upon wheezy install, I noticed the usual modeset display changing (thiner fonts, ...) Yet, on first X run I got the wrong screen resolution (1024 instead of 1366) as reported here and I noticed that some vesafb (IIRC) was used with a message in xorg logs about failing to load radeon module (I don't have the box at hand to check more precisely, have to wait for this week-end for this). I then stopped X and forced the use of the radeon driver by editing xorg.conf which lead me to the garbage screen on the next X run. I then added the radeon.modeset=0 stanza to my grub configuration and this seemed to make the trick. Yet there are still some very annoying (and somehow scary) side effects : - no more console switching - no suspend to RAM mode : the screen fades progressively to white in a somewhat scary manner, as if somebody was pushing on all of the screen surface, inch by inch, until all of the display has turned to something whitish (don't know how to describe that better), - same fade to white on system shutdown before the system powers off, - when closing session to get back to lightdm, the left and right halves of the screen are swapped with a thin black vertical space in between them. - sometimes, after going back to lightdm and then being re-logged, the display is lightly flickering. This is what lspci says about the card : 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320] And this is the contents of /lib/firmware/radeon as requested : $ ls -l /lib/firmware/radeon/ total 576 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24096 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_mc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 BTC_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24096 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_mc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24148 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_mc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8704 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8704 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 PALM_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 PALM_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R100_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R200_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R300_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R420_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R520_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 R600_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 R600_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 R600_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 juin 12 17:13 R700_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_rlc.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 RS600_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 RS690_cp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RS780_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RS780_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV610_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV610_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV620_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV620_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV630_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV630_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV635_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV635_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV670_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV670_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440 juin 12 17:13 RV710_me.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3392 juin 12 17:13 RV710_pfp.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 13:15:45 -0400, Michael Evans wrote: Alex, Thanks for your reply. When I boot and append radeon.modeset=0 I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe (apparently classic) mode. This I can live with. $lsmod | grep firmware gives: radeon639188 0 ttm48725 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 27227 1 radeon drm 167670 3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon power_supply 13475 1 radeon i2c_algo_bit 12841 1 radeon i2c_core 23876 5 i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules. Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a bug at all)? The above doesn't really answer anything... The firmware should live in /lib/firmware/radeon/ Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen (fwd)
On Don, 2012-09-13 at 12:44 -0400, Michael Evans wrote: The live install includes firmware as follows: $more binary.packages | grep firmware firmware-linux-free 3.1 Should I see if I can compile in firmware-linux-nonfree as well? That is certainly where the required microcode is. But according to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/firmware-linux-nonfree/filelist this doesn't exist for wheezy? As the suffix -nonfree implies, it's in non-free. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I get no video, only colored snow. Boot seems OK up until X is started. The system is then unusable. (I am writing from a different wheezy install). Make sure you install the firmware package and that the firmware is available in the initrd if you are using one. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
Alex, Thanks for your reply. When I boot and append radeon.modeset=0 I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe (apparently classic) mode. This I can live with. $lsmod | grep firmware gives: radeon639188 0 ttm48725 1 radeon drm_kms_helper 27227 1 radeon drm 167670 3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon power_supply 13475 1 radeon i2c_algo_bit 12841 1 radeon i2c_core 23876 5 i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules. Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a bug at all)? Thanks, Mike On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:43:26 -0400 From: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com To: Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Dear Alex, Thanks very much for your reply. I wasn't sure whether to reply-all of not, so I didn't. The live install includes firmware as follows: $more binary.packages | grep firmware firmware-linux-free 3.1 Should I see if I can compile in firmware-linux-nonfree as well? But according to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/firmware-linux-nonfree/filelist this doesn't exist for wheezy? I'm not sure how debian packages it, but you need the firmware to use the card. If you've compiled the driver into the kernel, you'll also need to compile the firmware into the kernel. There is an initrd in the live image: $more binary.contents | grep initrd.img /live/initrd.img I grepped the build log for firmware and got the following (only warnings having to do with networking): $more log | grep firmware more log | grep firmware xorg-docs gpointing-device-settings touchfreeze xinput firmware-linux file-roller finger firmware-linux-free folks-common fontconfig Get:763 http://localhost/debian/ wheezy/main firmware-linux-free all 3.1 [10.5 kB] Selecting previously unselected package firmware-linux-free. Unpacking firmware-linux-free (from .../firmware-linux-free_3.1_all.deb) ... W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169 Setting up firmware-linux-free (3.1) ... W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 [ and 23 more similar warnings about rtl*8168*.fw for module r8169 ] In the build log these warning occur as update-initramfs is generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64. I also grepped the log for initrd and got the following: $more log | grep initrd update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 Does this mean that the firmware is included in the initrd? Excuse the simple question, but: is there a way I can pass an argument at boot to get at least a non-X terminal window to do further diagnosis? boot with radeon.modeset=0 on the kernel command line in grub. Failsafe boot gives the same problem. Maybe I will try generating a live build without X, and then maybe we can troubleshoot by adding X to that install (I do not yet know if a live-build on a usb stick can be modified this way). You can also append a non-X runlevel to the end of your kernel command line in grub to boot to a non-X environment. I'm not sure what runlevel debian uses for non-X. Alex Thanks, Mike On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:23:14 -0400 From: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com To: Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu, 687...@bugs.debian.org Cc: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I get no video, only colored snow. Boot seems OK up until X is started. The system is then unusable. (I am writing from a different wheezy install). Make sure you install the firmware package and that the firmware is available in the initrd if you are using one. Alex
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen (fwd)
Dear Alex, Thanks very much for your reply. I wasn't sure whether to reply-all or not, so I didn't at first; now am sending same message to 687...@bugs.debian.org as instructed. The live install includes firmware as follows: $more binary.packages | grep firmware firmware-linux-free 3.1 Should I see if I can compile in firmware-linux-nonfree as well? But according to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/firmware-linux-nonfree/filelist this doesn't exist for wheezy? There is an initrd in the live image: $more binary.contents | grep initrd.img /live/initrd.img I grepped the build log for firmware and got the following (only warnings having to do with networking): $more log | grep firmware more log | grep firmware xorg-docs gpointing-device-settings touchfreeze xinput firmware-linux file-roller finger firmware-linux-free folks-common fontconfig Get:763 http://localhost/debian/ wheezy/main firmware-linux-free all 3.1 [10.5 kB] Selecting previously unselected package firmware-linux-free. Unpacking firmware-linux-free (from .../firmware-linux-free_3.1_all.deb) ... W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169 Setting up firmware-linux-free (3.1) ... W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169 [ and 23 more similar warnings about rtl*8168*.fw for module r8169 ] In the build log these warning occur as update-initramfs is generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64. I also grepped the log for initrd and got the following: $more log | grep initrd update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64 Does this mean that the firmware is included in the initrd? Excuse the simple question, but: is there a way I can pass an argument at boot to get at least a non-X terminal window to do further diagnosis? Failsafe boot gives the same problem. Maybe I will try generating a live build without X, and then maybe we can troubleshoot by adding X to that install (I do not yet know if a live-build on a usb stick can be modified this way). Thanks, Mike On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:23:14 -0400 From: Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com To: Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu, 687...@bugs.debian.org Cc: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Michael Evans mnev...@geol.umd.edu wrote: Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I get no video, only colored snow. Boot seems OK up until X is started. The system is then unusable. (I am writing from a different wheezy install). Make sure you install the firmware package and that the firmware is available in the initrd if you are using one. Alex -- Michael Evans ph: 301-405-8763 Department of Geology ESSIC fax: 301-405-3597 University of Maryland email: mnev...@geol.umd.edu Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120 http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/ College Park, MD 20742 skype: skype.mnevans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon Version: 1:6.14.4-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I get no video, only colored snow. Boot seems OK up until X is started. The system is then unusable. (I am writing from a different wheezy install). Hardware: Zotac ZBox (AMD E-350 /Radeon HD 6310 graphics), VGA connector. Architecture: amd64. Memory: 2Gb. OS: Debian/Wheezy live install: created on 9/12/2012 using http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build system. Boot method: from isohybrid iso on a usb drive. Kernel: 3.2.0-3-amd64 xorg: 1:7.1+1 xserver-xorg-video-radeon: 1:6.14.4-5 According to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xserver-xorg-video-radeon this video should be supported (it is a PALM card). According to http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Debian_Open_Source this video card should need xorg driver 6.14.2. I can provide the live .iso and/or build directory if helpful. Thanks for any suggestions or help. -Mike Evans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
