Re: Deadlock on kernels > 2.4.13-pre6

[Emmanuele Bassi <emmanuele.bassi@iol.it>]

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

> > Even if it shows up to be a VIA problem, what do I have to do, to get my
> > system work properly with this chipset?
> 
> The reason I ask is VIA have had a history of weird ISA DMA hangs when doing
> certain other operations. It could be some combination of these triggering
> problems.

Considering this issue, and that everything else I've tried this far, I
beginning to think that the controller is, indeed, guilty as charged.

> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT [NV04] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> 
> Are you seeing the hangs in X11, and which X setup (one with agp loaded ?)

I see hangs in both X11 and console, but under console I use the
framebuffer device (rivafb).

This is the section about my hardware inside /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:

# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************

# Device configured by xf86config:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Creative VideoBlaster"
    Driver      "nv"
    VideoRam    16384
EndSection

+++

Just to be certain, I have an old PCI graphic card (a Matrox Mystique)
that worked nicely since three years now... If that works nice, this
should be the final proof...

> Also does it print "Activiating ISA DMA workarounds" during the boot ?

Yes.

Bye,
 Emmanuele.

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