Bug 1951 - When booting an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro card with radeon.modeset=1 , the screen displays colorful garbage
Summary: When booting an ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro card with radeon.modeset=1 , the scree...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Depends on: 3466
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Reported: 2011-06-28 17:14 CEST by Shlomi Fish
Modified: 2013-06-11 15:28 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: kernel-2.6.38.8-2.mga2.src.rpm
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Description Shlomi Fish 2011-06-28 17:14:25 CEST 
Description of problem:

When booting this machine:

    Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz CPU.
    2.5 GB of RAM.
    An ATI Radeon HD 2600 card.
    One 160 GB Hard-disk and two smaller ones of 80 GB or so.
    A 19×´ LCD Screen by ViewSonic.
    A standard built-in ACâ97 sound-card.

With Mageia Cauldron (and Mageia 1) with radeon.modeset=1 enabled, then the screen turns into colorful garbage. With radeon.modeset=0, then the system boots fine, but then moving Windows on KDE is slow, one cannot start GNOME 3, etc. Other Linux distributions on this computer seem to be fine.

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


How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot using radeon.modeset=1.
2. After the kernel says it is going to load the RV630 firmware, the screen turns into garbage.
Comment 1 Shlomi Fish 2011-06-29 08:07:40 CEST 
Hi all,

after a long amount of investigation, I found out that the problem was that the initrd.img did not have access to the radeon-firmware package. After I installed it (from the "Non-free" repository, I presume) and rebuilt the initrd using «mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.38.8-desktop586-2.mga2.img 2.6.38.8-desktop586-2.mga2», the problem was fixed.

Nevertheless, it still existed in the default install from the dual CD.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish
Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2011-09-27 18:38:44 CEST 
Note that bootloader-config --action=rebuild-initrds does *not* add the firmware.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-29 15:58:18 CEST 
Hello, sorry for the delay, what is the status of this bug?  still valid ?
Comment 4 Shlomi Fish 2011-10-29 16:13:28 CEST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hello, sorry for the delay, what is the status of this bug?  still valid ?

Well, the machine in question was decomissioned, but it may still exist.
Marja Van Waes 2011-12-21 12:54:00 CET

Depends on: (none) => 3466

Comment 5 Stefano Negro 2012-01-18 22:37:18 CET 
Bug confirmed, but on Mageia 2 Alpha 3 on first boot just after installation.

Stblack

CC: (none) => stblack

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-05 09:01:26 CEST 
Please read https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466#c67 

The packages:

drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-0.100-1.mga2
ldetect-lst-0.1.300-1.mga2

should also solve this bug and those or even better versions will go into Mga2b3, expected to be released on April 14th

Please test

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 7 Shlomi Fish 2012-04-05 09:29:46 CEST 
Hi Marja,

(In reply to comment #6)
> Please read https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3466#c67 
> 
> The packages:
> 
> drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-0.100-1.mga2
> ldetect-lst-0.1.300-1.mga2
> 
> should also solve this bug and those or even better versions will go into
> Mga2b3, expected to be released on April 14th
> 
> Please test

How should I test? Should I use the LiveCD? Is it available? Should I install a new partition on a live system? I believe I had a similar problem on my laptop with an ATI Mobility HD card, but I already resolved the problem there and now have a functional Cauldron system there.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish
Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2012-04-05 09:40:02 CEST 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Hi Marja,

> 
> How should I test? Should I use the LiveCD? Is it available? Should I install a
> new partition on a live system? I believe I had a similar problem on my laptop
> with an ATI Mobility HD card, but I already resolved the problem there and now
> have a functional Cauldron system there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Shlomi Fish

Hi Shlomi,

Preferably do the same as before you reported this bug. Did you install from LiveCD, back then? I can only see you tested with Dual later on. 

April 14th Mga2b3 LiveCD should be released, too, but I don't know the last news about the Dual iso
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:05:46 CEST 
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 10 Shlomi Fish 2012-05-27 08:21:16 CEST 
It seems to be fixed because I was able to boot from a LiveCD. Closing as FIXED ans putting in Mageia 2.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Version: Cauldron => 2
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 11 Franz Holzinger 2013-06-11 14:54:45 CEST 
I have used the 
Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
to boot and then install LINUX on the harddrive. The graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 works after booting LINUX.

CC: (none) => flink

Comment 12 Shlomi Fish 2013-06-11 15:28:41 CEST 
Hi Franz,

(In reply to Franz Holzinger from comment #11)
> I have used the 
> Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
> to boot and then install LINUX on the harddrive. The graphic card ATI
> Mobility Radeon HD2600 works after booting LINUX.

this is an old bug that was resolved/FIXED . Please don't comment on it. If you are running into a problem, then report a new bug.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish
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