constant freezing.

[MXIIA]

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on an AMD64 computer with an ATI Raedon x1250 graphics card.

Everything runs fine for about 3 hours, then it will randomly stop working.
Symptoms:
Mouse stops moving for 10 seconds
Screen goes white
Speakers start repeating last 10 seconds of whatever was playing
Screen goes orange or purple with lines across it and random symbols...
at that point I hardware restart my computer and all is fine again

dmesg yields the following after every crash

[ 5334.171171] [drm:edid_is_valid] *ERROR* Raw EDID:
[ 5334.171174] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171176] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171179] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171181] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171183] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171186] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171188] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171190] <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
[ 5334.171192]
[ 5334.171196] radeon 0000:01:05.0: HDMI Type A-1: EDID invalid.
[ 5334.171203] [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI Type A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID

and my computer info is as follows

mxiia@homebox:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
03:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
03:06.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)

[Jcink]

I'm also having the same issues with the same card, anyone have any ideas?

[falstart]

I have nearly the exact same problem. The only difference with mine is that my computer resets. I believe my graphics card (nVidia) is overheating and sending the processor a NMI.

[MXIIA]

This seems to be a pretty common problem, not only in this topic, but a quick google search for "ubuntu 10.04 freezes" yields MUCH more than "fedora f13 freezes"

[MXIIA]

I would like an answer/response

[MatthewAdams]

It looks to be a graphics card issue where it tries to probe a monitor that isn't there. Hard to say if it's an overheating issue....have you run any sensor programs, like KSensors, or does ATI have a utility which monitors the temp of the card?

If you're using a proprietary ATI driver, have you tried downgrading the version?

I'm a noob, just tossing around some ideas.

[MXIIA]

It looks to be a graphics card issue where it tries to probe a monitor that isn't there. Hard to say if it's an overheating issue....have you run any sensor programs, like KSensors, or does ATI have a utility which monitors the temp of the card?

If you're using a proprietary ATI driver, have you tried downgrading the version?

I'm a noob, just tossing around some ideas.

Thank you for your response.

It obviously is a graphic card issue

Mine isn't over heating, as far as I know

And, ATI discontinued it's proprietary driver forcing me to use the (obviously) unstable open sourced one, this is the source of my problems I believe. I cannot find the old version of the ATI driver and if I could I'm not sure it it'd work with 10.04, it worked with 9.04 and 9.10 is when it was discontinued.

[rdratlos]

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on an AMD64 computer with an ATI Raedon x1250 graphics card.

Everything runs fine for about 3 hours, then it will randomly stop working.
Symptoms:
Mouse stops moving for 10 seconds
Screen goes white
Speakers start repeating last 10 seconds of whatever was playing
Screen goes orange or purple with lines across it and random symbols...
at that point I hardware restart my computer and all is fine again

dmesg yields the following after every crash


and my computer info is as follows

Could you please post the complete dmesg log? There might be a fix for this problem. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/21/244. What's the name and vendor of your board?