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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, adaplas@pol.net
Subject: Re: Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:07:34 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108429654.12739.60.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050215002025.GQ15058@waste.org>


> Nope. No printk outputs from _set_par, _write_mode, or _engine_init.
> 
> Just to clarify: the gdm stop is done from tty1 while gdm is running
> on tty7, so I don't think it's a matter of mode switch logic.

Ohhh, this is a known bug then. When you kill X while it's not on the
front VT, it will crap on the engine. This has always been the case, I
suppose that if you didn't notice it before, it 's because you are
lucky :)

> If I do "sleep 5; /etc/init.d/gdm stop" and then switch to tty7 and
> wait for it to stop, all is fine.

Yes.
> 
> Also, I'm still seeing the LCD blooming + hang on starting radeonfb.
> It's something like 1 in 10 boots rather than every boot now though.

Does it actually hangs ? That's weird... looks like a chip crash. Can
you check if that happens with radeonfb.default_dynclk=-1 on the kernel
command line ?

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14 20:39 Radeon FB troubles with recent kernels Matt Mackall
2005-02-14 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-14 23:08   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-15  0:02     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-02-15  0:20     ` Matt Mackall
2005-02-15  1:07       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-02-15  6:06         ` Matt Mackall
     [not found] <3xVku-kH-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-02-15  3:14 ` Vincent C Jones
2005-02-15 12:46   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-15 12:50   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] <3y1SR-5K6-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <3yatk-4mE-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-02-15 15:07   ` Vincent C Jones
2005-02-15 22:02     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-16  1:53       ` Vincent C Jones
2005-02-16  2:41         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-16 14:39           ` Vincent C Jones
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2005-02-16 10:08 tvrtko.ursulin

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