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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
	airlied@linux.ie, keithp@keithp.com,
	dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: i915 X lockup
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:47:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090228004751.96d1ea8d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A8F660.10604@gmail.com>

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:31:28 +0100 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28.2.2009 01:20, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > KMS support is not a feature of the server but of your 2D driver.  You
> > want 2.6.2, or things will be bad.
> 
> I have 2.5.0. After turning KMS off, problem seems to be solved.
> 
> Anyway, I would appreciate a version of the intel driver being in the 
> Kconfig text, otherwise it looks like: don't use this on machines with 
> installation from stone age. If one has latest stable release of a 
> distro, he doesn't even think he doesn't have "new enough userspace".
> 
> For reference, the text is:
> Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default,
> and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old
> userspaces with this enabled will cause pain.

Hang on.

The kernel deadlocked on struct_mutex, did it not?  That's a kernel bug
regardless of what userspace you're running.

Do we know why this happened?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27  9:28 i915 X lockup Jiri Slaby
2009-02-27 10:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-27 10:12   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-27 10:14     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-27 10:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 13:04   ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-27 13:49     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-27 23:12       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-02-28  0:20         ` Eric Anholt
2009-02-28  8:31           ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-28  8:47             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-28  9:00               ` Eric Anholt
2009-02-28 18:24                 ` Bruno Prémont
2009-02-28 19:57                   ` Eric Anholt
2009-02-28 17:11               ` Keith Packard

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