Subject: Radeon HD 6870

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:38:14 +0200

Hello

Don't know if it's the right place to report this.

Mir testing failed with Radeon HD 6870. 13.10 beta freshly installed. Mir 
installed following web available info.

Screen with multiple vertical black unstable stripes.

TECH INFO:

(The info below is drawn from an ARCH session).

lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] 
Barts XT [Radeon HD 6870] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 3108
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 55
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at fbac0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fbaa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 
<?>
        Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
        Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
        Kernel modules: fglrx

lspci -vv
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] 
Barts XT [Radeon HD 6870] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 3108
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 55
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at fbac0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Region 4: I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fbaa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, 
L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- 
Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- 
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency 
L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- 
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ 
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, 
OBFF Not Supported
                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, 
OBFF Disabled
                LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
                         Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, 
EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
                         Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, 
EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
                         EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, 
LinkEqualizationRequest-
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 00000000fee3f00c  Data: 41d2
        Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 
Len=010 <?>
        Capabilities: [150 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- 
RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- 
NonFatalErr+
                CEMsk:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- 
NonFatalErr+
                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ 
ChkEn-
        Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
        Kernel modules: fglrx

Regards.

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From: Daniel van Vugt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:29:07 +0800

Thanks. We know about that issue. It is being discussed here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1218815

If you have any different issues in future, please report them using 
this link:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+filebug

- Daniel

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From: Daniel van Vugt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:21:42 +0800

Also, you appear to have the AMD/ATI driver "fglrx" loaded. This could 
likely prevent Mir from working properly (as it uses the "radeon" 
module). If you want to test Mir, please remove all "fglrx*" packages.

- Daniel

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From: Daniel van Vugt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:52:01 +0800

No problem. Then the bug you reported is indeed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1218815

On 10/09/13 14:50, [email-masked] wrote:
> Le mardi 10 septembre 2013 14:21:42 Daniel van Vugt a écrit :
> The info I provided comes from ARCH running on the same host after reboot, for
> the details of the card. The fglrx package is not installed in Ubuntu 13.10
> beta.
>
>

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:50:17 +0200