From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757486AbZB1AUn (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:20:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753565AbZB1AUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:20:34 -0500 Received: from 69-30-77-85.dq1sn.easystreet.com ([69.30.77.85]:57580 "EHLO kingsolver.anholt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753487AbZB1AUe (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:20:34 -0500 Subject: Re: i915 X lockup From: Eric Anholt To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: Jiri Slaby , Andrew Morton , airlied@linux.ie, keithp@keithp.com, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20090227231207.GA4687@silver.sucs.org> References: <49A7B253.906@gmail.com> <20090227023231.76e7c65f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090227130440.GA24633@silver.sucs.org> <49A7EF52.8080105@gmail.com> <20090227231207.GA4687@silver.sucs.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-fqHtbxjeOFGstfGFGiOA" Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:20:31 -0800 Message-Id: <1235780431.6992.14.camel@gaiman> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-fqHtbxjeOFGstfGFGiOA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 23:12 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > On 27.2.2009 14:04, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:28:51 +0100 Jiri Slaby w= rote: > > >> > > >>>everytime I run X, it gets stuck. Currently running on mmotm > > >>>2009-02-26-16-58, but I think this is wider problem. I had i915 disa= bled > > >>>for a long time (until I noticed today). > > > > > >Which version of X are you using? Does it support kernel modesetting? = If > > >not, did you disable kernel modesetting in the KConfig file for i915? > >=20 > > xorg-x11-server-7.4-17.3 > > which is > > X.Org X Server 1.5.2 > >=20 > > modesetting enabled: > > CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=3Dy > >=20 > > Which X version is needed for that? >=20 > Good question. I can see that 7.4 supports GEM but I see nothing about > kernel modesetting ( > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Darticle&item=3Dxorg_74_final&num= =3D1). > I know it's enabled in the Fedora (since Fedora 9) xorgs but I have no > idea about openSUSE (which I believe is what you are using based on > package numbers). Apparently kernel modesetting can be turned off on the > kernel command line by using nomodesetting so that might be a quick > thing to try... KMS support is not a feature of the server but of your 2D driver. You want 2.6.2, or things will be bad. --=20 Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net eric.anholt@intel.com --=-fqHtbxjeOFGstfGFGiOA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmog08ACgkQHUdvYGzw6vdL8QCfX9eenavLNpZVQECSJXMV+d+f iiwAnRQNbmn+i6OdUoTS4hL0nGci3qpJ =ML6T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fqHtbxjeOFGstfGFGiOA--