Bug 23723 - crashes when switching console on ATI rage mobility p/m agp 2x
Summary: crashes when switching console on ATI rage mobility p/m agp 2x
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Branch 5.1
Classification: Distributions
Component: xorg-drv-ati (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: all Linux
: P3 major
Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: QA 5.1
URL: http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/t...
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Depends on:
Blocks: 23724
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Reported: 2010-07-04 07:46 MSD by Ivan Zakharyaschev
Modified: 2020-09-15 12:56 MSK (History)
4 users (show)

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xorg.conf (676 bytes, text/plain)
2010-12-07 10:20 MSK, Sergey Gritsenko
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Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-04 07:46:05 MSD
xorg-drv-ati, xorg-drv-mach64 in School Lite 5.0.1 on the video card: ATI rage mobility p/m agp 2x

(First off, in the installer, testing X makes the screen black, and the computer doesn't respond any more to any key combinations. So, in order to complete the installation, one shouldn't test X. 

After the installation, X doesn't start; it reports something like that there is no driver and hence no screen; the value of the driver parameter in /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty.)

So, as the first thing after the installation, we put "ati" or "mach64" into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

With "ati" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X starts (in the log, one can read that it loads the mach64 driver). But when one switches to a text linux console, after a short while, X crashes (caught signal 11).

Surprisingly, putting "mach64" straight into /etc/X11/xorg.conf causes X not to start: we get a blank screen, and can't exit this state; however, the computer does respond to key combinations, e.g., Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+O did work. (Or perhaps this was caused not by the specification of "mach64" in xorg.conf, but merely by the previous crash of X.)


Workaround so far: put "ati" into xorg.conf, and don't switch to linux text consoles.
Comment 1 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-04 08:02:30 MSD
(In reply to comment #0)

> (First off, in the installer, testing X makes the screen black, and the
> computer doesn't respond any more to any key combinations. So, in order to
> complete the installation, one shouldn't test X. 

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23724

> After the installation, X doesn't start; it reports something like that there
> is no driver and hence no screen; the value of the driver parameter in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty.)

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23725
Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-04 08:08:33 MSD
The description of the problem looks similar to https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23352 "По завершении сеанса валится Х-сервер. После чего умирает консоль.", but the driver is a different one, and the versions of the kernel and X are different...
Comment 3 Valery Inozemtsev 2010-07-04 15:56:24 MSD
проблемы бранчей меня не интересуют
Comment 4 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-04 22:51:42 MSD
Some people mention that they used this or a similar video card with older releases of ALT's distros: 

http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2009-September/655744.html (re: 4.1 was better than p5 in this respect)

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644#c3 (re 4.1)

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6473#c0 (re a much older Compact 2.3)

https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830#c7 (re the old times of linux-2.4)

So, since they don't report this problem, probably the older releases of ALTLinux (e.g., 4.1) didn't have this problem; so, one could try installing the X server or the kernel from the 4.1 branch or one of the 4.1 distro in order to get a working system on this ATI video card.
Comment 5 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2010-07-05 03:14:46 MSD
(In reply to comment #0)
> xorg-drv-ati, xorg-drv-mach64 in School Lite 5.0.1 on the video card: ATI rage
> mobility p/m agp 2x

This report concerns 

xorg-drv-ati-6.12.3-alt1.i586.rpm
xorg-drv-mach64-6.8.1-alt1.i586.rpm

, the same releases of the packages as the branches 5.1 and p5 currently have. 

(Thanks for the lists ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p5/iso/school/5.0.1/altlinux-5.0.1r1-school-lite-i586-ru-install-cd.iso.txt !)
Comment 6 Sergey Gritsenko 2010-12-05 21:28:21 MSK
Аналогичная ситуация возникла при тестировании "Нового Легкого" для школ на LXDE. Во время установки видеокарта определяется верно, после перезагрузки - в xorg.conf наименование драйвера не прописано.http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/topic,8912.msg123188.html#msg123188 и http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/topic,8912.msg122235.html#msg122235
Comment 7 AEN 2010-12-06 02:19:44 MSK
(В ответ на комментарий №6)
> Аналогичная ситуация возникла при тестировании "Нового Легкого" для школ на
> LXDE. Во время установки видеокарта определяется верно, после перезагрузки - в
> xorg.conf наименование драйвера не
> прописано.http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/topic,8912.msg123188.html#msg123188
> и http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/topic,8912.msg122235.html#msg122235
Можно приложить xorg.conf после установки и рабочий, после правки?
Comment 8 Sergey Gritsenko 2010-12-07 10:20:58 MSK
Created attachment 4691 [details]
xorg.conf

Во вложении исправденный xorg.conf. В оригинале секция Device выглядела так:
Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0|0"
	Driver      ""
EndSection
Comment 9 Maxim Knyazev 2020-09-15 12:56:26 MSK
Поддержка дистрибутива завершена. Используйте новые версии.