A GPU lockup has once again been introduced in Mesa and / or t=
he RadeonSI
driver. As is usual with this sort of thing, the image immediately freezes =
in
place while audio stops and every form of input becomes unresponsive (inclu=
ding
the NumLock / CapsLock keyboard leds), the only option being to power the
machine off and back on. I started noticing this crash roughly a month ago
after a distribution upgrade (openSUSE Tumbleweed).
The crash only appears to be caused by 3D rendering. It's probabilistic but
very frequent. It is triggered by a variety of game engines, and I've notic=
ed
it with at least the following ones:
- Blender 3D: When opening certain scenes in Blender and going into Weight
Paint mode, the system is bound to crash in at most 5 minutes of usage.
- Second Life: Linux native viewers for Second Life also trigger this, I
believe somewhere between 5 and 30 minutes estimate.
- Xonotic (Darkplaces engine): Starting a game will freeze the machine anyw=
here
between instantly (the moment a game starts) and 30 minutes at most.
- The Dark Mod (idTech 4 engine): The same freeze will occur when playing
TheDarkMod, anywhere between instantly and roughly 10 minutes at most.
- MineCraft: The native version of Minecraft can also trigger the crash, af=
ter
at most 1 hour of playing a game especially on servers with a lot of geomet=
ry.
My OS is openSUSE Tumbleweed x64. My current Mesa version is 17.1.3, I can
confirm first noticing this in 17.1.1, but I don't know if the issue was
introduced in 17.1.0 or prior. My video card is a Radeon R7 370 (Gigabyte),
Pitcairn Islands GPU, GCN 1.0, RadeonSI. Official product page:
h=
ttp://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3D5469
Please help to address this issue soon: I am unable to use several applicat=
ions
due to the risk they pose to my computer! Logs will be attached soon.