[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#718809: fglrx-driver: screen backlight is turned off at login, unable to turn it on

francesco.devita at mailoo.org francesco.devita at mailoo.org
Mon Aug 5 19:21:29 UTC 2013


Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 1:13.8~beta1-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I'm using an ASUS laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470. I upgraded 
the catalyst driver from 13.4 to 13.8~beta1-2 and now, when the X 
session starts, the screen backlight is turned off and I'm unable to 
turn it on. Except this, the system seems to work normally because it 
responds to keyboard commands and I can barely see on the screen that my 
KDE session is correctly loaded.

Downgrading the catalyst to the 13.4 version or using the radeon free 
driver the problem does not persist.



-- Package-specific info:
Full fglrx package list:
ii  fglrx-atievent 1:13.8~beta1 amd64        events daemon for the 
non-free AT
ii  fglrx-control  1:13.8~beta1 amd64        control panel for the 
non-free AT
ii  fglrx-driver   1:13.8~beta1 amd64        non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD 
display
ii  fglrx-modules- 1:13.8~beta1 amd64        dkms module source for the 
non-fr
ii  libfglrx:amd64 1:13.8~beta1 amd64        non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD 
display
ii  libfglrx-amdxv 1:13.8~beta1 amd64        AMD XvBA (X-Video Bitstream 
Accel
ii  libgl1-fglrx-g 1:13.8~beta1 amd64        proprietary libGL for the 
non-fre

VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
[AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]

dmesg: http://paste.debian.net/23004/

Xorg X server log: http://paste.debian.net/23006/

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
 >Section "ServerLayout"
 >    Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
 >    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
 >EndSection
 >
 >Section "Module"
 >EndSection
 >
 >Section "Monitor"
 >    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 >    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
 >    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
 >    Option        "DPMS" "true"
 >EndSection
 >
 >Section "Device"
 >    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 >    Driver      "fglrx"
 >    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
 >EndSection
 >
 >Section "Screen"
 >    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
 >    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
 >    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
 >    DefaultDepth     24
 >    SubSection "Display"
 >        Viewport   0 0
 >        Depth     24
 >    EndSubSection
 >EndSection

Please, pay attention that I'm writing this bug report using the radeon 
free driver (otherwise it would be impossible without the backlight), so 
the following outputs may differ from the situation reported above.

Bug script output from package glx-alternative-fglrx:
Diversions:
diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2.0 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so by 
glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1 by 
glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2 by glx-diversions
diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 to 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2.0 by glx-diversions

/usr/lib/mesa-diverted:
total 88
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 Aug  5 19:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 188 root root 69632 Aug  5 18:52 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 16 12:13 arm-linux-gnueabihf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug  5 19:13 i386-linux-gnu
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Aug  5 19:13 libGL.so-master -> 
/etc/alternatives/libGL.so-master
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug  5 19:13 x86_64-linux-gnu

/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/:
total 360
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  5 19:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Aug  5 19:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jul  6 13:38 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 357724 Jul  6 13:38 libGL.so.1.2.0

/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/:
total 380
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug  5 19:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Aug  5 19:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jul  6 12:46 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jul  6 12:46 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380808 Jul  6 12:46 libGL.so.1.2.0

Alternative 'glx':
glx - manual mode
   link currently points to /usr/lib/mesa-diverted
/usr/lib/fglrx - priority 99
   slave glx--fglrx-blacklists-radeon.conf: 
/etc/ati/fglrx-blacklists-radeon.conf
   slave glx--fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/fglrx/fglrx_drv.so
   slave glx--libGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fglrx/libGL.so.1
   slave glx--linux-libglx.so: /usr/lib/fglrx/fglrx-libglx.so
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted - priority 5
   slave glx--libGL.so.1-i386-linux-gnu: 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
   slave glx--libGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu: 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
Current 'best' version is '/usr/lib/fglrx'.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug  5 19:14 /etc/alternatives/glx -> 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug  5 19:13 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so-x86_64-linux-gnu -> 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug  5 19:14 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-i386-linux-gnu -> 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Aug  5 19:14 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu -> 
/usr/lib/mesa-diverted/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1

File System:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Aug  4 14:08 /usr/lib/glx -> 
/etc/alternatives/glx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     48 Aug  5 19:14 
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-i386-linux-gnu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     48 Aug  5 19:13 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so -> 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so-x86_64-linux-gnu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     50 Aug  4 14:08 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> 
/etc/alternatives/glx--libGL.so.1-x86_64-linux-gnu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431600 Apr 17 12:40 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so




-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.50
ii  glx-alternative-fglrx                  0.3.90
ii  libc6                                  2.17-7
ii  libfglrx                               1:13.8~beta1-2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]               9.1.4-1
ii  libx11-6                               2:1.6.0-1
ii  libxext6                               2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxrandr2                             2:1.4.1-1
ii  libxrender1                            1:0.9.8-1
ii  xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-12]  2:1.12.4-6

Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
ii  fglrx-atieventsd                              1:13.8~beta1-2
ii  fglrx-modules-dkms [fglrx-kernel-13.8-beta1]  1:13.8~beta1-2
ii  libgl1-fglrx-glx                              1:13.8~beta1-2
pn  libgl1-fglrx-glx-i386                         <none>

Versions of packages fglrx-driver suggests:
pn  amd-opencl-icd  <none>
ii  fglrx-control   1:13.8~beta1-2
ii  xvba-va-driver  0.8.0-8

-- debconf information:
   fglrx-driver/check-xorg-conf-on-removal: true
   fglrx-driver/removed-but-enabled-in-xorg-conf:
* fglrx-driver/needs-xorg-conf-to-enable:



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