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log file growing fast with below repeated error message - any help to stop this recurring message

[  1034.498] (WW) RADEON(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[  1034.498] (WW) RADEON(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
[  1034.618] (WW) RADEON(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[  1034.618] (WW) RADEON(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
[  1034.636] (WW) RADEON(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[  1034.636] (WW) RADEON(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
Terrance
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Ravikumar Manickam
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  • You best shot would be to report this as a bug here https://bugs.freedesktop.org but they would require you to add some more details probably. It is a problem with xorg/driver of your graphics card. Here is something similar: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97025 but there are many more. Have you tried with wayland instead of xorg? Or with the opensource or 3rd party driver (depending on what you use now)? – Rinzwind Feb 15 '18 at 15:44

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Please verify you are using the 7.10 radeon driver by issuing the following commands:

lshw -c video
modinfo radeon | more

If you see the following in the lshw/modinfo output, you are using the radeon driver:

Example of 1st lines of lshw:

 *-display               
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: RV516/M64-S [Mobility Radeon X2300] **or some other radeon card**
   vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
   version: 00
   width: 32 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
   configuration: driver=radeon latency=0

Example 1st lines of modinfo (kernel version may be different):

filename:       /lib/modules/4.13.0-26-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
license:        GPL and additional rights
description:    ATI Radeon

Verify that you are using the radeon driver.

If so, verify the version of xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04 you are using. Execute:

sudo apt list --installed | grep radeon-hwe

The following should be displayed:

xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04/xenial-updates,now 1:7.10.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 amd64 [installed]

This is the 7.10 radeon driver.

If all of the above is true for your machine, then this issue has a workaround:

Download the 7.9 radeon driver Ubuntu package (xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04_7.9.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1_amd64.deb) from:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04/1:7.9.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

Execute the following commands on the downloaded .deb file:

sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04_7.9.0-0ubuntu1_16.04.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04

This downgrades the radeon driver package to version 7.9, fixes dependencies, and holds the driver pkg from further updates.

Upon reboot, issue should be resolved.

A bug has been reported to Freedesktop at:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105217

The 7.9 radeon driver will need to stay held until the issue is fixed in:

xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-16.04

I believe this issue to be a duplicate of: Blank screen with only mouse pointer after 7.10 radeon driver update; display does not switch to tty7 upon lightdm start; Xorg.0.log quickly grows

Coolmott
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