268136 – X server cannot be restarted using 2.6.28-r5 kernel and ati-drivers-8.552-r2

Bug 268136 - X server cannot be restarted using 2.6.28-r5 kernel and ati-drivers-8.552-r2

Summary: X server cannot be restarted using 2.6.28-r5 kernel and ati-drivers-8.552-r2

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2009-05-01 17:49 UTC by Thomas Albers
Modified:	2009-10-29 03:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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emerge --info (emerge-info,3.04 KB, text/plain) 2009-05-01 17:50 UTC, Thomas Albers	Details
Xorg.log (Xorg.0.log,41.89 KB, text/plain) 2009-05-01 17:51 UTC, Thomas Albers	Details
lspci -vv (lspci,19.74 KB, text/plain) 2009-05-01 17:53 UTC, Thomas Albers	Details
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Description Thomas Albers 2009-05-01 17:49:05 UTC

After upgrade from 2.6.27-r8 to 2.6.28-r5 kernel the X server can only be started once. When the X server is shut down and started again only a black screen is seen.

I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2 and an onboard Radeon HD3200.

Steps to reproduce:
1. startx (X server starts)
2. Ctrl-Alt-Del (X server shuts down)
3. startx (X server shows only a black screen)

Reproducibility: always


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Steps to reproduce:
1. startx (X server starts)
2. Ctrl-Alt-Del (X server shuts down)
3. startx (X server shows only a black screen)

Reproducibility: always
Actual Results:  
X server shows only a black screen

Expected Results:  
The X server should have started again, as it did before

Comment 1 Thomas Albers 2009-05-01 17:50:25 UTC

Created attachment 190052 [details]
emerge --info

emerge --info

Comment 2 Thomas Albers 2009-05-01 17:51:39 UTC

Created attachment 190053 [details]
Xorg.log

X server log from normal startup

Comment 3 Thomas Albers 2009-05-01 17:53:27 UTC

Created attachment 190055 [details]
lspci -vv

Comment 4 Andreas Nüßlein 2009-05-04 15:56:11 UTC

i have been having the same problems for quite a while now - still not fixed with current drivers (x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.593, xorg-server-1.5.3-r5).

my vga is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV710 [Radeon HD 4550]


thanks

Comment 5 Nicholas Doyle 2009-05-19 18:08:10 UTC

I am having the same problem but instead of a black screen I get a nice big long kernel panic that scrolls down the screen for a few seconds.

Comment 6 Andreas Nüßlein 2009-05-23 10:53:45 UTC

..
do you guys use 2 monitors as well?

maybe it's got something to do with that.

Comment 7 Nicholas Doyle 2009-05-23 13:10:03 UTC

This problem occurs both when I am using one monitor or two monitors. The number of monitors does not seem to be relevant.

Comment 8 Ben Kuhn 2009-06-03 21:15:39 UTC

Same problem with my HD4850...both with single and dual monitors.

Comment 9 Nicholas Doyle 2009-06-29 17:40:57 UTC

This was fixed for me in x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.6 on kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r3.

Comment 10 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-17 21:07:50 UTC

Closing fixed as per comment #9.

Thanks for the follow up.