Bug 666 - ATI Radeon HD 6550M not working
Summary: ATI Radeon HD 6550M not working
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anssi Hannula
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NEEDINFO
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-04-06 17:56 CEST by Olivier Durif
Modified: 2011-10-08 20:35 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: fglrx
CVE:
Status comment:


Attachments
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try using fglrx (8.89 KB, text/x-log)
2011-04-06 17:57 CEST, Olivier Durif
Details
message when installing fglrx (4.24 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-06 18:00 CEST, Olivier Durif
Details
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try using ati driver (20.25 KB, text/x-log)
2011-04-07 18:04 CEST, Olivier Durif
Details
ldconfig -p | egrep "ati|fglrx|libGL" with fglrx (9.78 KB, text/plain)
2011-04-07 18:06 CEST, Olivier Durif
Details

Description Olivier Durif 2011-04-06 17:56:12 CEST
I have a laptop (acer aspire 4820TG) with a graphic
chipset on the intel i5 processor, and a graphic card : ati radeon HD 6550M
whose does not work.

If I use only ati radeon with fglrx : XFrake gives 
(EE) Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section. 
libGL symbol link files sanity check failed

If I use only ati radeon with ati (free driver):
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.

If I use both with fglrx :
The screen goes black and the fan slows
If I use both with ati :
It works (due to intel i5)


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Olivier Durif 2011-04-06 17:57:27 CEST
Created attachment 205 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try using fglrx
Comment 2 Olivier Durif 2011-04-06 18:00:54 CEST
Created attachment 206 [details]
message when installing fglrx
Comment 3 John Balcaen 2011-04-06 18:03:37 CEST
Did you try to configure xorg with aticonfig --initial ?

CC: (none) => balcaen.john

Comment 4 Olivier Durif 2011-04-06 18:31:22 CEST
I already tried. Same error.
Comment 5 John Balcaen 2011-04-07 02:05:31 CEST
In fact after reading the xorg.log fglrx is crashing :/
could you try again with the ati driver ?
use XFdrake to configure it to use the ati driver
add in /etc/modprobe.d/ a file name ati
with options radeon modeset=1
& another file  in /etc/modprobe.preload.d/ati
with radeon inside.
The idea is to preload the radeon module with modeset enable.
Comment 6 Ahmad Samir 2011-04-07 06:05:26 CEST
Reconfigure your card with XFdrake, then post the output of:
su
ldconfig -p | egrep "ati|fglrx|libGL"
update-alternatives --display gl_conf

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannula
Source RPM: (none) => fglrx

Comment 7 Olivier Durif 2011-04-07 18:03:19 CEST
Comment 5 :
with the ati driver, at boot, black screen freezes, no access possible on a shell.
Comment 8 Olivier Durif 2011-04-07 18:04:03 CEST
Created attachment 210 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try using ati driver
Comment 9 Olivier Durif 2011-04-07 18:06:07 CEST
Comment 6 :

update-alternatives --display gl_conf return :

gl_conf - status is manual.
 link currently points to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL/ati.conf
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL/standard.conf - priority 500
 slave xorg_extra_modules: /usr/lib64/xorg/xorg-1.6-extra-modules
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL/ati.conf - priority 1000
 slave xorg_extra_modules: /usr/lib64/fglrx/xorg
 slave lib64AMDXvBA_cap: /usr/lib64/fglrx/libAMDXvBA.cap
 slave display-driver.modconf: /etc/fglrx/modprobe.conf
 slave libglx: /usr/lib64/fglrx/xorg/libglx.so
 slave display-driver.preload: /etc/fglrx/modprobe.preload
 slave libAMDXvBA_cap: /usr/lib64/fglrx/libAMDXvBA.cap
 slave xvmcconfig: /etc/fglrx/XvMCConfig
Current `best' version is /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GL/ati.conf.
Comment 10 Olivier Durif 2011-04-07 18:06:38 CEST
Created attachment 211 [details]
ldconfig -p | egrep "ati|fglrx|libGL" with fglrx
Comment 11 Olivier Durif 2011-04-12 21:21:23 CEST
I have find a solution with fglrx !
In the BIOS we need to modify Graphic mode [Discrete] in place of [Switchable].
ATI works with fglrx, but with the free ati driver I have again the same error.
However, intel chipset is disabled so the power consumption is higher.
It would be still nice to fix this problem.
Comment 12 Juan Luis Baptiste 2011-06-02 17:42:53 CEST
Exactly, this issue is due to the hybrid graphic system of your laptop. Fortunately for you you can disable the Intel card from within the BIOS, but this isn't always the case.

For the open source radeon driver there's a tool called vga_switcheroo to manually switch from one card to the other, and with the fglrx driver, the latest 8.50 driver is supposed to handle this too. I'm gonna try and report back.

CC: (none) => juan.baptiste

Comment 13 Anssi Hannula 2011-06-15 17:48:40 CEST
Several bugfixes to fglrx PowerXpress switching have indeed been made in the Mageia fglrx packaging. Does this still happen?
Comment 14 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-08 20:35:05 CEST
(In reply to comment #13)
> Several bugfixes to fglrx PowerXpress switching have indeed been made in the
> Mageia fglrx packaging. Does this still happen?

No reaction. 

Closing this bug because, according to Anssi, the probability it got fixed is very high

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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