Lockups with RSS-GLX screensavers

[ejs1920]

It seems every time I test one of the RSS-GLX screensavers (http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/ if they're not already packaged for your distro) with fglrx, it displays for a few seconds, but then either the screen freezes or turns off, and I have to hard reset my computer.

I haven't yet tested every one, but I've had lockups so far with lattice and skyrocket. Also, not RSS-GLX, but clicking in the fireflies screensaver (http://somewhere.fscked.org/fireflies/) locks up.

I ran through each one with mesa r300 dri, and they all worked fine, some not particularly fast, but hey, they don't lockup the system.

I have a Radeon 9550 in a AGP 4X SiS 650 based motherboard, most recently running Fedora 8 with vanilla kernel 2.6.24.2 and X Server 1.4.0.90. All recent fglrx, 7-11 to 8-2 are affected.

Can anyone confirm this? Is it limited to r300 class hardware? Or just 9550? Or just me?

[dodgy]

I'm having exactly the same problem, is also happening with UT2004, but with an X1800XT on a MSI K9N Ultra. Using 8.2 on Debian Sid/Sidux, 2.6.24.2 kernel, xorg 7.3. It was the same with 8.1, but not with 7.12 or earlier as far as I recall.

[dodgy]

After a lot of tweaking with xorg.conf and countless lockups, I've managed to stop the lockups with OpenGL apps (*crosses fingers*). It seems that using Compiz or any of the xorg.conf settings for it (Textured2D, TexturedXrender, RENDER, DAMAGE, etc) causes immediate lockups, and not disabling BlockSignalsOnLock and enabling XAANoOffScreenPixmaps causes lockups after 1-2 minutes.

Here's my xorg.conf that appears to be working:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Xorg Configured"
        Screen          "Screen 0"
        InputDevice     "Keyboard 0"
        InputDevice     "Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse� 1.0A 0"
        Option          "Clone" "off"
        Option          "Xinerama" "off"
        Option          "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option          "AllowMouseOpenFail"    "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Keyboard 0"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"              "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"              "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"             "gb,us"
        Option          "XkbOptions"            "altwin:super_win"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse� 1.0A 0"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "Auto"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Device 0"
        Driver          "fglrx"
        Option          "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
        Option          "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option          "TexturedVideo" "on"
        Option          "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
#       Option          "Textured2D" "on"
#       Option          "TexturedXrender" "on"
        Option          "UseFastTLS" "2"
        Option          "MaxGARTSize" "512"
        Option          "BlockSignalsOnLock" "off"
#       Option          "BackingStore" "on"
        BoardName       "ATI Technologies Inc R520 [Radeon X1800]"
        BusID           "PCI:6:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Monitor 0"
        ModelName       "Default Monitor"
        Option          "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen 0"
        Monitor         "Monitor 0"
        DefaultColorDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "RENDER" "Disable"
        Option          "DAMAGE" "Disable"
        Option          "Composite" "Disable"
#       Option          "XVideo" "Enable"
EndSection

[ejs1920]

I did some further testing, and it's only these 3 screensavers that lockup:

rss-glx-lattice
rss-glx-skyrocket
fireflies

I'll just stick with the open source drivers for now.

[dodgy]

I'll be joining you on that, I spoke too soon earlier - after 20-30+ mins getting massive amounts of 3D glitches (looks like a frikking laser show) and 'soft lockups', X taking up 100% CPU and needing to be killed. After starting up X again, mouse cursor animation/transparency, anti-aliasing of images and gamma on icons etc all disappeared, needing a re-install of fglrx to get them back.

There wasn't anything in the tail of the Xorg log that was any different from the current log:

Warning: LookupDrawable()/SecurityLookupDrawable() are deprecated.  Please convert your driver/module to use dixLookupDrawable().
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000001
Receive 3D performance mode message with status: 00000000

(Can't post whole log due to posting restrictions...)

I'm done with experimenting as I think another few lockups will fsck my hard drives.

In the name of science, I fired up UT2004 on my XP partition @ 1680x1050 with the graphics settings maxed out, played for an hour and everything was just fine and dandy...

[ejs1920]

Same with 8.3

Exactly the same behaviour with 8-3, bug 1061 filed at http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061 .

[karthikrg]

confirmed by me too.. catalyst 8.3 on R520 any GL screensaver freezes the computer