Bug 197123 – X server crash after starting DVB-T view in media-video/kaffeine-0.8.5 w/ ati-drivers-8.39.4

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Petric Frank 2007-10-26 10:52:23 UTC]

Starting kaffeine to view DVB-T television.

It starts to display, about a half second of sound comes and then the X-session aborts and i find myself at the KDM login dialog.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start kaffeine
2.Select dvb
3.Find himself logged out



Expected Results:  
Should display the video stream

Hardware: Core2Duo with 2x2GHz, ATI X1400
Drivers: ati-drivers-8.39.4
Kernel: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
Apps: kaffeine-0.8.5
Libs: xine-lib-1.1.8


Output from "emerge --info":

Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:00:03 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/own"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread exif ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap ipw3945 irda isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility lirc lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp2 mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 readline reflection samba scanner session slp spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x86 xine xinetd xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" LIRC_DEVICES="all" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati fbdev fglrx v4l vesa vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Petric Frank 2007-10-26 10:55:06 UTC]

Created attachment 134412 [details]
System log which may show the problem

Snippet from /var/log/messages which seem to show the problem.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-26 11:01:29 UTC]

Does this happen w/ x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati?

[Comment 3 Petric Frank 2007-10-26 11:08:35 UTC]

I can not use the ati drivers coming with xorg. As far as i know they don't support the ATI X1400 chipset.
Also i have a display resolution of 1680x1050.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-26 11:13:21 UTC]

Well, then I'm afraid you'll have to complain to ATI, because kernel folks will refuse to deal with issues caused by proprietary binary drivers and we cannot fix those anyway. You can try w/ your luck w/ 8.40.4 meanwhile.

[Comment 5 Petric Frank 2007-10-26 12:52:50 UTC]

@Jakub Moc: I interstand this fully and agree. I would prefer to have a driver delivered with xorg, but currently i have to stick with the fglrx driver.

After some debugging and searching i got a hint in the web.

Actually the DRI support of the fglrx driver from ATi seems to be somewhat problematic.

After disabling DRI the problem disappears.

Modify the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the following way:

---------------- cut ----------------
...
Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Driver      "fglrx"
...
        Option      "no_dri" "yes"
...
EndSection
---------------- cut ----------------

Hope that helps others which encounter the same problem.


I hope to get the open source ATi driver supporting the X1400 to appear in the portage tree sometime in near future.

[Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt 2007-11-26 15:51:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> @Jakub Moc: I interstand this fully and agree. I would prefer to have a driver
> delivered with xorg, but currently i have to stick with the fglrx driver.
> 
> After some debugging and searching i got a hint in the web.
> 
> Actually the DRI support of the fglrx driver from ATi seems to be somewhat
> problematic.
> 
> After disabling DRI the problem disappears.
> 
> Modify the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the following way:
> 
> ---------------- cut ----------------
> ...
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
>         Driver      "fglrx"
> ...
>         Option      "no_dri" "yes"
> ...
> EndSection
> ---------------- cut ----------------
> 
> Hope that helps others which encounter the same problem.
> 
> 
> I hope to get the open source ATi driver supporting the X1400 to appear in the
> portage tree sometime in near future.
> 

ati-drivers 8.433 is now in the tree which supports the x1400 rather well test with it please.

[Comment 7 Petric Frank 2007-12-02 18:58:54 UTC]

No change.

I had to disable DRI to get it working.

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-25 18:45:57 UTC]

Take this w/ ATI/AMD, sorry.