Re: 2.6.10 dies when X uses PCI radeon 9200 SE, binary search result

John covici
2005-01-21T18:50:36Z

Makes sense to me -- I went from 6.8 to 6.9rc2 and that is I think
when my X died. Now mine is an APG not PCI, but it may be related.

on Friday 01/21/2005 Helge Hafting(helgehaf@aitel.hist.no) wrote
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:41:23PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm fine with adding this code, but we still don't know if this is the
> > > cause of his problem. The debug output can determine if this really is
> > > the source of the problem or if it is somewhere else.
> > >
> >
> > I actually doubt it is this stuff.. my guess is that it is something
> > nasty like ACPI breaking int10 for X or something like that... it
> > seems a lot more subtle than the usually things that break when we
> > mess with the DRM :-)
> >
> The search was a short one.
> 2.6.9-rc1 works fine, just like 2.6.8.1
> 2.6.9-rc2 crashes. I didn't find any kernel revisions between those two.
>
> It is interesting to note that the 2.6.9 crash was a bit different.
> X got a bit further according to the log.
> During the test, everything stopped, but the machine wasn't completely
> dead like it usually is. Numlock actually toggled the LED, but the screen was
> black and I could not break out of X with ctrl+alt+backspace. So I tried to
> switch consoles, and the kernel died a bit more. No more numlock LED
> toggling, but sysrq+S+U+B actually worked. The discs synced and
> the thing booted. Hm, perhaps X always got a bit further, but
> now the disc sync preserved more of the log?
>
> Here is how it ended (I have all of it if necessary):
>
> (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x8000000)
> (II) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=12, fd=120, pd=1
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
> drmOpenDevice: Open failed
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
> drmGetBusid returned ''
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:0:8:0"
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0920000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0920000 to 0xafd8c000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe0000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0xe097d000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] ring handle = 0xe097d000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring mapped at 0xafc8b000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring contents 0x00000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] ring read ptr handle = 0xe0a7e000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring read ptr mapped at 0xafc8a000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring read ptr contents 0x00000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xe0a7f000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0xafa8a000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Vertex/indirect buffers contents 0x00000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] GART texture map handle = 0xe0c7f000
> (II) RADEON(0): [pci] GART Texture map mapped at 0xaf5aa000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xf6000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
> (II) RADEON(0): CP in BM mode
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures
> (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
> (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
> (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x1400000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x1900000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 100352 kb for textures at offset 0x1e00000
> (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
> Screen to screen bit blits
> Solid filled rectangles
> 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
> Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
> Solid Lines
> Scanline Image Writes
> Offscreen Pixmaps
> Setting up tile and stipple cache:
> 32 128x128 slots
> 32 256x256 slots
> 16 512x512 slots
> (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
> (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
> (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
> (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161
> (**) Option "dpms"
> (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
> (WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" is not used
> (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers
>
>
> I hope this can be of help,
> Helge Hafting
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