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post	publish	true	Errors on Linux boot with a Radeon HD	Julien Lengrand-Lambert	jlengrand	julien@lengrand.fr	http://www.lengrand.fr	274	http://www.lengrandlambert.fr/wordpress/?p=274	2011-11-09 12:29:24.000000000 +01:00	misc	radeon radeon hd gem object ati amd debian GEM GPU	id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 102 The Don lengrand.fr@dontheduck.co.uk MjAxMS0xMi0xOCAwNjowMDozMiArMDEwMA== MjAxMS0xMi0xOCAwNTowMDozMiArMDEwMA== Nice one, thankyou very much. My problem was that after installing CrunchBang, on first boot, I had the same situation, but it kept scrolling the screen with the error message for more than 5 minutes before I reset the machine. Booted in recovery and removed 'plymouth' and the machine then proceeded to the login screen. My card is a Radeon HD 5750 Donald id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 198 Julien Lengrand-Lambert julien@lengrand.fr http://www.lengrand.fr MjAxMi0wMS0zMCAxODoyODoxMCArMDEwMA== MjAxMi0wMS0zMCAxNzoyODoxMCArMDEwMA== Cool to see that the message helped someone else ;). Still couldn't find a good way to get plymouth working though :s.

Hi all,

For the past months, I had a huge issue with My debian based system.

I got a  Radeon 5770 graphical card and here are some more information:

{% highlight bash %} [airballman@crunchbang:~]$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Juniper [Radeon HD 5700 Series] {% endhighlight %}

On startup, I would have 15/20 seconds of errors flooding my boot screen.

Here is the Error log, repeated again and again:

{% highlight bash %}

[drm:radeon_ttm_backend_bind] ERROR failed to bind 1 pages at 0x0040F000 [TTM] Couldn't bind backend. radeon 0000:01:00.0: object_init failed for (4096, 0x00000002) [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] ERROR Failed to allocate GEM object (4096, 2, 4096, -22)

{% endhighlight %}

The problem as quite annoying, even causing graphical startup failures. . . I searched a lot for a solution and asked for some help.

I tried lots of stuff, from installing new free drivers to the proprietary ati solution. The latter solved the problem, but caused mouse freezes. . .

After a lot of problems, DarthWound finally gave my the good way to solve it !

The problem was coming from Plymouth, and removing it would remove the error :

{% highlight bash %}

$ sudo apt-get remove plymouth

{% endhighlight %}

The con of this method is that you will lose your beautiful startup image. . .

Let me know if you find a better solution !

You may see the effect on my screen here :

Gem Object problems on boot

C U