fglrx drivers broken after upgrading to quantal with dual Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series & Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series cards
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm using a HP Pavilion G62-a014SL that switches between two ATI cards: a HD 4200 and a HD 5400. After upgrading from Precise to Quantal, the resolution is very low, no compositing is available, Unity fails to load, no window decorations are present and I just get the cursor, a wallpaper and desktop icons.
I thought that since the Radeon HD 4xxx branch is now under the new driver support model, I had to install fglrx-legacy drivers from ppa:makson96/fglrx (even if my secondary card is in the original driver support model) which also downgrades the X server, but it didn't work: I just got a black screen and Xorg segmentation faults, no matter which xorg.conf is used (I tried with Quantal's default and 'amdconfig --initial -f').
I'm using the open source ati drivers now, which suffer from overheating. I can't get more that 30 minutes of uptime.
I also have the feeling that my system can't switch between the two VGA cards (as in bug #1021024 ). That could explain the overheating that I'm experiencing since forever (though with the open source ati drivers it's gotten even worse, as I said before) or why fglrx is failing to detect my cards / load properly. As you can see, switcheroo is enabled:
grep -i switcheroo /boot/config-
CONFIG_
but I haven't got any /sys/kernel/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: fglrx 2:9.000-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
CompositorRunning: compiz
CurrentDmesg: [ 23.428471] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
Date: Tue Oct 23 22:08:10 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-10-19 19:21:19,811 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
bcmwl, 5.100.82.112+bdcom, 3.5.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
bcmwl, 5.100.82.112+bdcom, 3.5.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
fglrx, 9.000, 3.5.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series] [1002:9712] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:143c]
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] [1002:68e0] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:143c]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
JockeyStatus:
kmod:wl - Broadcom STA wireless driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use) [auto-install]
kmod:fglrx - ATI Fire GL (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
kmod:fglrx_updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP G62 Notebook PC
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
UnitySupportTest:
Error: command ['/usr/
Major opcode of failed request: 153 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServ
Serial number of failed request: 22
Current serial number in output stream: 22
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/03/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.07
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 143C
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 62.19
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.name: HP G62 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu3
version.
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
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summary: |
- Required input is missing. + fglrx drivers broken after upgrading to quantal |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- fglrx drivers broken after upgrading to quantal + fglrx drivers broken after upgrading to quantal with dual Mobility + Radeon HD 4200 Series & Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series cards |
Montblanc, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, you have unintentionally fell into at least 3 bugs at once: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ fglrx-installer /+bug/1058040 . You are welcome to go to that report and mark yourself affected.
1) Regarding your HD 4200 card in Quantal, you would be suffering from https:/
2) A bug in fglrx-* using HD 5400.
3) A bug while using two cards simultaneously.
For now, this bug report can only focus on 2) as your HD4200 has a known bug in Quantal.
Hence, could you please comment to if you have a way to disable the HD4200 card in BIOS or another method?
Regarding your overheat problem, please see https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Kernel/ Debugging/ HighTemperature s#Working_ around_ overheat .