From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Falk Subject: Re: Need help fixing DRM locking on Alpha Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:19:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4999E666.4080309@linux-kernel.at> References: <20090210154355.GA27697@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20090211154829.GA27268@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <611416E1-0C62-40A1-9176-31AE4961495E@orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <611416E1-0C62-40A1-9176-31AE4961495E@orcon.net.nz> Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Michael Cree Cc: Matt Turner , Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, klausman@schwarzvogel.de, Jay Estabrook Michael Cree schrieb: > On 13/02/2009, at 11:15 AM, Matt Turner wrote: >> It would be great to get others to test as well. To do so, >> >> 1) patch libdrm using this patch. >> 2) rebuild libdrm, and at least mesa-7.2, xorg-server-1.5.3 >> 3) patch your kernel (-29_rc series preferably) with patch in >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10893 >> 4) startx > > Done. Applied the kernel patch and the DRM patch and installed mesa 7.3 > and xserver 1.5.3. > > Had the xserver up and going with gnome desktop on my ev67 alpha. Seems > to be working fine. > > Nice to see glxinfo return lots of info, and glxgears actually run > without locking up. But I only got 200 whatevers per second with > glxgears. I recall that it use to do 400. Makes me wonder if I am > really getting hardware acceleration. This is with a Radeon 9200 > (RV280) graphics card. Well. At least the patch applied and the kernel came up: [oliver@gosa ~]$ uname -a Linux gosa.beer.linux-kernel.at 2.6.29-0.28.rc4.git6.1axp.fc10.alpha #1 Sat Feb 14 08:07:29 CET 2009 alpha alpha alpha GNU/Linux It's headless, so quite hard to say if drm locking is fixed or not, at the moment. But it's informative for Jay, that he can try this kernel :-) If he has time... -of