[Scilab-users] New computer, graphics(?) crashes
Nikolay Strelkov
n.strelkov at gmail.com
Thu May 28 22:58:54 CEST 2015
I forgot to mention - I have 14.04 HWE (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Desktop-1 ) on my Ubuntu
12.04.5 LTS.
28 мая 2015 г. 22:55 пользователь "Nikolay Strelkov" <n.strelkov at gmail.com>
написал:
> Dear Tim!
>
> I did some tests.
>
> Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS i386:
>
> $ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
>
> $ lsmod | grep drm
> drm_kms_helper 55071 1 radeon
> drm 303102 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
>
> Your command works normally
> scf(0); clf; plot2d(sin((0:0.01:1) * 4 * %pi))
>
> Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS i386:
> $ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
> OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
>
> $ lsmod | grep drm
> drm_kms_helper 49282 1 radeon
> drm 249595 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
>
> Your command works normally
> scf(0); clf; plot2d(sin((0:0.01:1) * 4 * %pi))
>
> So I have no problems with A4-4000 APU.
> What exact laptop model do have?
> I understood about AMD A10. But may be there is a discrete (hybrid) card
> too?
>
>
> With best regards,
> maintainer and developer of Mathieu functions toolbox
> <http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/Mathieu/> for Scilab,
> IEEE member, Ph.D.,
> Nikolay Strelkov.
>
> 2015-05-28 18:25 GMT+03:00 <tim at wescottdesign.com>:
>
>> For what it's worth, in Lubuntu the full fglrx packages causes immediate
>> crashes, while uninstalling all fgrlx-related stuff except for fgrlx-core
>> makes it last a while before it dies.
>>
>> Also, this computer was a rush job to replace my rather old previous
>> machine which died Monday morning, and all I did to "install" the OS was to
>> use the old hard drive. As a consequence, the new machine is running in
>> 32-bit mode, not 64. I'm not sure how mature the 64-bit stuff is, or how
>> neglected the 32-bit stuff may be at this point.
>>
>>
>> On 2015-05-28 00:18, Nikolay Strelkov wrote:
>>
>>> Dear guys!
>>>
>>> I'll test Scilab on AMD A4-4000 today with Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS and
>>> 14.04.2 LTS and report back.
>>>
>>> On my laptops I successfully use Scilab 5.x on Intel HD graphics (open
>>> drivers) and old Nvidia (GTX6xx, GT425, 9600GT both with proprietary
>>> drivers).
>>> 28 мая 2015 г. 10:44 пользователь "Antoine Monmayrant"
>>> <amonmayr at laas.fr> написал:
>>>
>>> Le Jeudi 28 Mai 2015 06:54 CEST, Tim Wescott
>>>> <tim at wescottdesign.com> a écrit:
>>>>
>>>> Strike that, I'm running 12.04. Dang. Time to upgrade, I
>>>>>
>>>> guess.
>>>>
>>>> Yep, first thing to do.
>>>> And keep on digging on the videocard driver side if you still have
>>>> troubles.
>>>> Scilab tends to be a good way to detect buggy video drivers!
>>>> Getting a cheap videocard with decent drivers might be the easiest
>>>> way to solve your problem.
>>>> You might try to ask other Linux users what card they have and
>>>> whether they get graphics related crashes.
>>>>
>>>> Antoine
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 08:15 +0300, Nikolay Strelkov wrote:
>>>>> > Dear Tim!
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For me it seems that you need to use proprietary AMD drivers -
>>>>>
>>>> fglrx.
>>>>
>>>>> > Open drivers are buggy and show low-performance.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > If you want to use open driver on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise)
>>>>>
>>>> you
>>>>
>>>>> > should upgrade its HWE to 14.04 LTS (trusty).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > With best regards,
>>>>> > Nikolay.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 27 мая 2015 г. 3:22 пользователь "Tim Wescott"
>>>>>
>>>> <tim at wescottdesign.com>
>>>>
>>>>> > написал:
>>>>> > Running a Scilab algorithm that puts up a lot of
>>>>>
>>>> graphs,
>>>>
>>>>> > Scilab crashes
>>>>> > with the report below. It's only happened with
>>>>>
>>>> Scilab, but it
>>>>
>>>>> > appears
>>>>> > to be the video driver that's complaining, so I
>>>>>
>>>> don't know if
>>>>
>>>>> > this is a
>>>>> > problem with Linux or with Scilab. The processor
>>>>>
>>>> is an AMD
>>>>
>>>>> > A10 with
>>>>> > on-board video processing which is considerably
>>>>>
>>>> different from
>>>>
>>>>> > my
>>>>> > 12-year-old Dell that this computer is replacing.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Does anyone have clues for the clueless?
>>>>>
>>>> Particularly
>>>>
>>>>> > suggestions for
>>>>> > isolating, fixing, or working around the problem?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer:
>>>>> > radeon: size : 3328 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: alignment : 256 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: domains : 2
>>>>> > EE
>>>>>
>>>> ../../../../../../src/gallium/drivers/radeon/r600_texture.c:1012
>>>>
>>>>> > r600_texture_transfer_map - failed to create
>>>>>
>>>> temporary texture
>>>>
>>>>> > to hold
>>>>> > untiled copy
>>>>> > radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer:
>>>>> > radeon: size : 1280 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: alignment : 256 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: domains : 4
>>>>> > radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer:
>>>>> > radeon: size : 1 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: alignment : 1 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: domains : 2
>>>>> > radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer:
>>>>> > radeon: size : 1 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: alignment : 1 bytes
>>>>> > radeon: domains : 2
>>>>> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Tim Wescott
>>>>> > www.wescottdesign.com [1]
>>>>> > Control & Communications systems, circuit &
>>>>>
>>>> software design.
>>>>
>>>>> > Phone: 503.631.7815
>>>>> > Cell: 503.349.8432
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim Wescott
>>>>> www.wescottdesign.com [1]
>>>>> Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
>>>>> Phone: 503.631.7815
>>>>> Cell: 503.349.8432
>>>>>
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