From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
From: bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org
Subject: [Bug 93879] kernel 4.4.0 causes application lockup and unusable
interfaces with radeon hardware
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 04:10:16 +0000
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Bug ID
93879
Summary
kernel 4.4.0 causes application lockup and unusable interfaces with radeon hardware
Product
DRI
Version
XOrg git
Hardware
x86-64 (AMD64)
OS
Linux (All)
Status
NEW
Severity
critical
Priority
medium
Component
DRM/Radeon
Assignee
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter
jimmy@boombatower.com
Created attachment 121320 [details]
sh -c "cat /proc/version; ./scripts/ver_linux; cat /proc/cpuinfo; cat
/proc/modules; cat /proc/ioports; cat /proc/iomem; lspci -vvv; cat
/proc/scsi/scsi" > env_info
While running Plasma 5 on 4.4.0 the following occurs periodically:
- chromium locks up
- plasma desktop locks up
- unable to enter password on plasma lock screen
A trigger for locking chromium up seems to be to resize the window by dragging
to screen edges (top to fullscreen, left to tack up left half of screen, etc).
Otherwise, it also seems to somewhat randomly freeze over time.
Reverting to 4.3.x resolves the issues.
Environment
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Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160121) (x86_64)
Kernel version: 4.4.0-1.2 (works on <= 4.3.3-6)
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.1.0
Xorg version: 7.6_1.18.0-5.2
xf86-video-ati version: 7.6.1-1.2
DRI3 enabled
Hardware: Radeon HD 7970 ghz
output from kernel bug reporting guide attached