Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

Post by Lord Aro »

Hi,

sometimes, when i run a relatively highly powered program, e.g. WINE, or AssaultCube Reloaded, i get screen freezes which cannot be gotten out of, except with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Sometimes, even that isn't enough to reset it and i have to completely reboot (e.g. java games like minecraft just black screen on start up, and have to be killed with 'kill -9 <pid>'
However, browsers work fine, playing video with multiple tabs open with no problems

I've had a look at the logs (kern.log, dmesg) but found nothing conclusive

uname -a:

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Linux donald.mint 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:48:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 3)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Turks [Radeon HD 6570]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa90
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)
03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller
04:05.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn] (rev 01)
Any extra info can be provided

Thanks for your time,
Lord Aro
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Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
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Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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kyphi,
Lord Aro wrote: uname -a:

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Linux donald.mint 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:48:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
this is a debian kernel and i think the cinnamon freezes reported in the topic you linked above have nothing to do with this problem.
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@zerozero - please tell me how to determine that. I also run Debian. Is it the absence of Ubuntu in the description?
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Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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kyphi,
the naming (assuming we are running vanilla kernels) follows different standards
from mint maya 13

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zerozero@zerozero-Inspiron-1545 ~ $ inxi -S
System:    Host: zerozero-Inspiron-1545 Kernel: 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64 (64 bit) 
           Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya

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zerozero@zerozero-Inspiron-1545 ~ $ uname -a
Linux zerozero-Inspiron-1545 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 17:49:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
from lmde

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zerozero@deb-kde ~ $ inxi -S
System:    Host: deb-kde Kernel: 3.2.0-3-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.8.4 Distro: Linux Mint Debian Edition

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zerozero@deb-kde ~ $ uname -a
Linux deb-kde 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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Thank you zerozero for your long reply.

I can see that I strayed into the LMDE Board Index.

After using "uname -a" in a number of distros, it is as I thought: the absence of a mention of "Ubuntu" could denote a Debian kernel depending on which distro you open.
The output of "inxi -S" is far more comprehensive than "uname -a" and indeed states the distribution but this information was not supplied by the OP.

The current LinuxMint Debian Edition offers a choice of MATE or Cinnamon and the freezing issue was a Cinnamon issue.

If a moderator would like to delete the entries following the OP's posting please do so. The OP might then get an answer to his/her posted problem.
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Lord Aro

Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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so, ignoring all the posts above ( ;) )
Anyone got any ideas?
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Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

Post by zerozero »

Lord Aro :oops: sorry for going completely off-topic there
can you provide us, please, the output of

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inxi -SGxr
Lord Aro

Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

Post by Lord Aro »

Apologies for the delay:

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lordaro@donald:~$ inxi -SGxr
System:    Host donald.mint Kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Xfce Edition
Graphics:  Card ATI Turks [Radeon HD 6570] X.Org 1.11.4 Res: 1920x1080@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer AMD Radeon HD 6570 GLX Version 4.2.11554 Compatibility Profile Context Direct Rendering Yes
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import romeo backport
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Hope that's helpful to you
Lord Aro

Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

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damn my forgetfulness. Bump?
Lord Aro

Re: Screen Freezes, possible fglrx-driver issue

Post by Lord Aro »

I feel that i should confirm that whatever was causing the issue, it has now been fixed in UpdatePack5

so thanks to whoever fixed whatever :)
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