Bug#246642: new Xfree86 in unstable crashes with ATI Radeon on IBM Thinkpad
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:10, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:15:54AM -0400, Aron Trauring wrote:
> > When X starts up, it goes into an infinite loop, spewing out the
> > following error message in the log file endlessly, until / is filled up:
> >
> > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP reset -1020
> > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP start -1020
> > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP GetBuffer -1020
> > (EE) RADEON(0): GetBuffer timed out, resetting engine...
>
> Oh my. I'm willing to bet this is another CP microcode issue; some cards
> are known to ship with bad firmware (IIRC), or exist in such a state
> that they're useless with microcode.
The cards don't ship any microcode, and the DRM doesn't work without it.
> This is all a mixture of IIRC and AIUI, and I'll try to test .dfsg when
> I get home (dialup sucks), but yeah. It looks like we've crippled
> radeon_drv. :(
No, Herbert has crippled the kernel packages. Of course, the DDX drivers
could deal better with this, at least the radeon driver does in DRI CVS.
I could dig up a patch, but I'd prefer if those who insisted on
crippling things did...
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