Greetings,
My system has been running fine for several moons but just today, when I powered my monitor on to use my machine it had crashed.
Upon reboot, I noticed that I have 2 kernels installed: 4.4.0.93 & 4.10.0.37.
When I now select the latest, I am facing a weird video error. The problem is that my monitor isn’t detected and my resolution now maxes out at 1280 x 1024.
When I tried booting on the 4.4.0.93 kernel my monitor/resolution are fine (Samsung Electronics Monitor 27" @ 1920 x 1080).
dmesg states the following:
[ 0.783037] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin failed with error -2
[ 0.783038] ni_cp: Failed to load firmware “radeon/CAICOS_pfp.bin”
[ 0.783163] [drm:evergreen_init [radeon]] ERROR Failed to load firmware!
[ 0.783273] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Fatal error during GPU init
[ 0.783379] [drm] radeon: finishing device.
After having googled it out, it brought me over to the /lib/firmware folder but both folders seem to be configured the same way and have the same size:
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# ls -lsa
total 112
4 drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 .
40 drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 36864 Oct 26 18:08 …
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 3com
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 bnx2
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 bnx2x
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 e100
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 emi26
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 emi62
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 korg
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 qlogic
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 tigon
24 -rw-r–r--. 1 root root 23554 Aug 11 19:42 whiteheat.fw
8 -rw-r–r--. 1 root root 5626 Aug 11 19:42 whiteheat_loader.fw
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# cd …
root@box:/lib/firmware# ls -lsa
total 68
40 drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 36864 Oct 26 18:08 .
4 drwxr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 Jan 17 17:16 …
4 drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 4.10.0-37-generic
4 drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Aug 29 00:58 4.4.0-93-generic
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 2016 hp
12 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 12288 Jan 12 06:35 intel-ucode
root@box:/lib/firmware# cd 4.10.0-37-generic/
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.10.0-37-generic# ls -lsa
total 112
4 drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 .
40 drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 36864 Oct 26 18:08 …
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 3com
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 bnx2
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 bnx2x
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 e100
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 emi26
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 emi62
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 korg
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 qlogic
4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 19 18:20 tigon
24 -rw-r–r--. 1 root root 23554 Oct 6 15:45 whiteheat.fw
8 -rw-r–r--. 1 root root 5626 Oct 6 15:45 whiteheat_loader.fw
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.10.0-37-generic# du . -sh
1.5M .
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.10.0-37-generic# cd …
root@box:/lib/firmware# cd 4.4.0-93-generic/
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# du . -sh
1.5M .
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic#
Here’s what I have installed:
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# aptitude search ati | grep video
i xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server – AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
p xserver-xorg-video-ati:i386 - X.Org X server – AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
p xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg - X.Org X server – AMD/ATI display driver wrapper (debugging symbols)
p xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg:i386 - X.Org X server – AMD/ATI display driver wrapper (debugging symbols)
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic#
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# uname -a
Linux T-REX2020 4.10.0-37-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 6 20:20:37 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION=“17.10 (Artful Aardvark)”
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 17.10”
VERSION_ID=“17.10”
HOME_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://help.ubuntu.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy”
VERSION_CODENAME=artful
UBUNTU_CODENAME=artful
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic#
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic# lshw -c video
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Caicos PRO [Radeon HD 7450]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e20000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
root@box:/lib/firmware/4.4.0-93-generic#
Please advise,
DLS
PS: My machine worked fine yesterday using the same kernel/configuration.