From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcus Better Subject: Re: rtl8139: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:32:59 +0200 Message-ID: <44AE8CBB.4070409@better.se> References: <20060630211604.GA5302@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Hourihane , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Dave Airlie Return-path: Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:37001 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932205AbWGGQdL (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:33:11 -0400 To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20060630211604.GA5302@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (For those haven't followed, this is about http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/38493 ) Francois Romieu wrote: > Marcus Better : >> I'm seeing this problem on my Acer Travelmate 223X laptop with built-in >> Realtek 8139: The ethernet stops working, usually after at most a few >> minutes operation. > In a better world, you would narrow the suspect with a git bissect [1] > between v2.6.15 and v2.6.16. I did, and the winner after 13 reboots is... commit de227f5f32775d86e5c780a7cffdd2e08574f7fb Author: Dave Airlie Date: Wed Jan 25 15:31:43 2006 +1100 drm: i915 patches from Tungsten Graphics Fix CMDBUFFER path, add heap destroy and flesh out sarea for rotation (Tungsten Graphics) From: Alan Hourihane Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie I didn't believe it at first either, but blacklisting the i915 module actually fixes the problem. Now that I know what to look for, I notice that the network errors always started cropping up after X11 started. Wonder what's going on here. Why is the graphics driver killing my network? Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEroy7XjXn6TzcAQkRAp7bAJ9F7HgWg+VsvQ0fwkK3+b4Ne+tASwCg8+m3 8i5BoW+ujUjoX3DLW0QKAPQ= =MDAc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----