Bug#603469: xserver-xorg-video-ati: screen randomly goes black with no way to bring it back

[Julien Cristau]

reassign 603469 linux-2.6 2.6.32-27
kthxbye

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 14:32:40 +0100, lauren wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.13.1-2
> Severity: important
> 
> after some random time period my screen goes black and nothing i do short of
> rebooting can bring it back ... i have gotten quite good at switching to a new
> console and logging in and rebooting without being able to see what i'm doing
> btw
> 
> the system is still running normally but no display at all
> 
> i am using the open source ati driver with a Thinkpad T500 ... KMS is enabled
> and the DRM module is loading correctly
> 
[...]
> [  949.420558] [drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop for more than 1sec aborting
> [  949.420570] [drm:atom_execute_table_locked] *ERROR* atombios stuck executing F6D8 (len 487, WS 0, PS 4) @ 0xF719

Sounds like a kernel issue, reassigning.  Is this reproducible with
2.6.36 (available in experimental).

Cheers,
Julien
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