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otoomet 01-20-2012 01:09 PM

AMD E450 (Radeon 6320) stability issues
 
Hi gurus,
I have a thinkpad X121e with AMD E450 processor and integrated radeon 6320 graphics. The system seems a little unstable, with occasional lock-up of (seemingly) graphics. This has already lead to a data loss.. Currently I am running ubuntu 11.10 with 3.0.0-14 kernel (amd64). I haven't installed proprietary fglrx drivers.

Any suggestions to improve the stability? Should I try the most recent kernel? Should I tweak the kernel options/modules? Should I try the flgrx driver (although it does not mention 6320 on the webpage).

Thanks in advance!

Ion Silverbolt 01-20-2012 07:30 PM

I'm using the HP dm1z which is the same APU as yours. I have had very good luck with the open source drivers. The closed source drivers on the other hand have caused me a lot of issues with suspend to ram. I'm using a 3.2 kernel in Gentoo.

If you can, try a newer kernel before trying the closed source drivers. Especially if you want to use suspend to ram. As far as stability otherwise goes, I haven't had any graphic problems or lockups with either driver using a 3.2 kernel.

business_kid 01-21-2012 02:04 PM

Check out the latest radeon driver - I thought I saw some 6000 series fixes.

otoomet 01-23-2012 03:55 PM

Business_kid -- the radeon driver is in the kernel, right? (at least according wikipedia it is...). Compiling the new kernel now, will let you know.

Ion -- what about suspend-to-X? Here suspend-to-ram is unstable, haven't tried suspend-to-disk.

Ion Silverbolt 01-24-2012 05:18 AM

I think you will notice improvements using a 3.2 kernel. Suspend to Ram works great using the open source driver. I had issues with the closed source driver and suspend however.

I had to send my netbook back to repair faulty speakers. I never use hibernate, so I never did test it.

The latest radeon open-source driver will be in the newest kernel you have, and should pretty much work right out of the box in Ubuntu.

business_kid 01-24-2012 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by otoomet (Post 4582527)
Business_kid -- the radeon driver is in the kernel, right? (at least according wikipedia it is...). Compiling the new kernel now, will let you know.

radeon.ko is the kernel module. There's also an X driver (xf86-video-ati) which needs a recent system, and is often best compiled from git with a similar mesa. I'm out of touch because my radeon gpus are little, and nothing respectively. I'm currently stuck on the 'nothing' (rs690) and I mean to compile mesa for llvm again on it but I haven't bothered yet.

otoomet 01-27-2012 01:18 AM

Running kernel 3.2.1 now.

I havent't experienced any graphics issues more (system was hanging for some period of time), but suspend-to-ram still occasionally refuses to wake up.

Do you use any kernel boot options? Which version of xserver-xorg-video-ati do you have (1.6.14.99 here)?

business_kid 01-28-2012 03:22 AM

Hi. My versions are (standard slackware-current as of April last year)
xorg-server-1.9.5
Mesa-7.10.2
pixman-0.20.2
libdrm-2.4.23
xf86-video-ati-6.14.1

For console only, the kernel is grand. For X, you need recent versions of all this stuff. There was some significant change in xorg-server around 1.7.5; mesa has gone from 7.9.x --> 7.11.x and xf86-video-ati from 6.12.x -->6.14.99 last seen(=6.15 beta)

In a word, you would profit from a newer distro. I tried to update an older distro, and it ended with me undoing my efforts. I wouldn't recommend it.

EDIT: On the positive side, the r300 driver is pretty well sorted, so you won't have to do this again to yourself.


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