Re: X "Hangs" with RS690 + 2.6.26

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:47:42AM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> >>I apparently have the same problem with my RS690. I noticed it after
> >>upgrading from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26, alongside xorg-server (1.4.99.904 to
> >>1.4.99.905) and Mesa (7.1-rc1 to 7.1-rc3). The ATI driver is 6.9.0.
> >>
> >>Here it always freezes in a few minutes or less than an hour.  When it
> >>happens, I'm not running any 3D application and the CPU is idle. I may
> >>be just typing something in a shell. But it works disabling DRI.
> >
> >Likewise, I'm not doing anything 3D related (at least, not consciously).
> 
> BTW, I forgot to mention that. Here the motherboard is a
> Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2. When it happens and I use SysRq to
> reboot, it doesn't post in the BIOS screen. I have to press
> reset.

My mobo is an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI and a "shutdown -r now" when X is wedged
(done over ssh) results in a clean reboot; no need to hard reset.

J.

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