Re: Linux-2.6.27-rc5, drm errors in log

Jaswinder Singh
2008-09-01T16:34:39Z

Hello Gene,

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> A re-repeat of a previous posting which has not drawn a comment. With added
> content, added CC to a patch author, and some new questions.
>

This is not because of my radeon firmware patch, my patch is still in
pipeline. Here is the list of developers who played with radeon :-

1. 4 days ago Linus Torvalds Merge branch 'drm-patches' of
git://git.kernel.org ...
2. 7 days ago Nicolai Haehnle drm/radeon: r300_cmdbuf: Always emit
INDX_BUFFER immediately ...
3. 7 days ago Jerome Glisse radeon: fix some hard lockups on r3/4/500s
4. 2008-08-12 David Miller radeonfb: fix accel engine hangs
5. 2008-08-05 Jean Delvare radeonfb: give i2c buses nicer names
6. 2008-08-05 David Miller radeon: misc corrections
7. 2008-07-24 Tony Breeds drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: notify
user if sysfs ...

> Machine is an F8 install, Athlon xp-2800 on an nforce2 motherboard, running
> an older radeon 9200SE (RV280 based) video card. No problems if I reboot
> to 2.6.27-rc4.
>
> I'm drowning in these errors:
>
> Aug 30 13:21:05 coyote kernel: [14927.850078] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:05 coyote kernel: [14927.861335] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:05 coyote kernel: [14928.060233] [drm] wait idle failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:07 coyote kernel: [14929.557075] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:07 coyote kernel: [14929.568869] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:08 coyote kernel: [14931.028882] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80036100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:08 coyote kernel: [14931.039896] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:21:18 coyote kernel: [14940.515114] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
> Aug 30 13:27:27 coyote kernel: [15310.125656] [drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80066107 0x00000000
>

On F8 machine with radeon 9200SE with 2.6.27-rc5, I am also getting
similar messages :

[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[drm] wait idle failed status : 0x83E8C13D 0x00000000
[drm] wait idle failed status : 0x83E8C13D 0x00000000
[drm] wait idle failed status : 0x83E8C13D 0x00000000
[drm] wait idle failed status : 0x83E8C13D 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x8006613B 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80066121 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x8006613B 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000
[drm] wait for fifo failed status : 0x80076100 0x00000000

Thank you,

Jaswinder Singh.