Bug#632772: Wheezy: KDE hangs on logout

[T Elcor]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 
Version: 1:6.14.2-1
Severity: important


Am having problems with KDE in wheezy:

1. KDE hangs on logout (Kmenu->Leave->Logout). Logging out results in a blank black screen and the system just hangs there, hardware reset is needed to reboot the system. When rebooted the system restarts and KDE works fine with the exception that it doesn't remember previous display settings (see below).

2. KDE refuses to remember display resolution settings: I set it to 1600x1200 and click the "Save as Default" button, yet after logging out (and hanging and resetting, see #1 above) KDE reverts to 1280x1024 Auto mode.

When I was upgrading to wheezy from squeeze, there were warnings that some drivers were moved to the "non-free" area but I didn't install any non-free drivers after the upgrade.

There was no problem with logging out of KDE in squeeze on this PC.


# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
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
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)


# aptitude search radeon
i A libdrm-radeon1                            - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM se
p   libdrm-radeon1-dbg                        - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM se
p   radeontool                                - utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on
i A xserver-xorg-video-radeon                 - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver   
p   xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg             - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver (deb


# uname -a
Linux srv 2.6.39-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 8 11:01:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux