Bug 20001

Summary:	Radeon HD 6850 freeze on startup
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tomas Escher <tomas.escher>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, marja11, rickstockton
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Tomas Escher 2016-12-21 17:34:37 CET

Description of problem:

After Installing the system freezes short after after login.
Desktop is loaded, mouse can be move for some seconds, than the system freeze.
No difference in using fglrx, free driver or vesa.

Problem is on other linux systems too. As I know, last working kernel for me is 3.8.12
With that kernel full 3d fglrx support.

Same system newer kernel same problem.

On system is a graphic board with a graphic card but i use pci-express graphic card over dvi.
graphic card is a fanless amd barts pro 6850.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia 5.1
How reproducible:
ever

Steps to Reproduce:
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Marja Van Waes 2016-12-23 20:19:47 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Marja Van Waes 2016-12-23 20:20:20 CET

Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2017-01-03 20:55:01 CET

I am not an expert in this, but try to ask intelligent questions: 

So you have one GPU on main board, and an AMD HD6850 in PCI slot ?

Which type GPU is on main board?

Which desktop do you use? KDE?

Maybe it tries some smart autoconfiguration and fouls up...?   

Hmm... have you checked if you have video output from main board?

Have you tried another, simple, desktop?

Whenever Mageia6 sta2 comes out it may be interesting to try the live iso.

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 2 Tomas Escher 2017-01-15 14:47:35 CET

Thank you for answering!

Yes. It's one on main board - a intel HD Graphics 2000/3000.
And one on PCI-E - a AMD/ATI HD 6850 fanless 1GB RAM.

I use KDE but it's the same problem with other desktops.

The videooutput from main board I have not checked so far. It's a big difference in quality.

I will test defenitely Mageia6. I think it's a problem with Kernel. Maybe I will try to compile my own.

Rick Stockton 2017-03-11 22:28:25 CET

CC: (none) => rickstockton

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2018-07-12 15:43:24 CEST

Hi Tomas,

Thank you for having taken the needed time to report this issue!

Did this bug get fixed? If so, please change its status to RESOLVED - FIXED

If it didn't, then we regret that we weren't able to fix it in Mageia 5. Mageia 5 has officially reached its End of Life on December 31st, 2017 https://blog.mageia.org/en/2017/11/07/mageia-5-eol-postponed/
It only continued to get important security updates since then, because we were waiting for the big Plasma5 update in Mageia 6, that fixed many of the Mageia 5 => 6 upgrade issues.

If you haven't seen that this bug got fixed, then please check whether this bug still exists in Mageia 6. If it does, then please change the Version (near the top, at the left) to "6". If you know it exists in Cauldron, then change Version to Cauldron. If you see it in both Cauldron and Mageia 6, then please set Version to Cauldron and add MGA6TOO on the Whiteboard.

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Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-10-07 17:04:27 CEST

No reply, so closing as OLD since Mageia 5 is no longer maintained.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD