> reopen 603469
> submitter 603469 !
> retitle 603469 radeon: atombios stuck executing F6D8 (screen randomly
> goes black with no way to get it back) quit
>
> Hi again,
>
> lauren wrote:
>
> > no problem and thanks for following up
>
> On second thought, I'm reopening this as an excuse to consider drm
> patches for backporting. I've set myself as submitter so hopefully
> you won't get any spam from it after this message.
>
> While I have your attention, could you help with one puzzle? The X
> log from the initial report contains:
>
> | Current Operating System: Linux BUZZ 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 30
> 22:47:19 UTC 2010 i686
>
> Which sounds like 2.6.32-27. But dmesg contains:
>
> | [ 7.120450] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for
> 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 | [ 949.420558] [drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR*
> atombios stuck in loop for more than 1sec aborting | [ 949.420570]
> [drm:atom_execute_table_locked] *ERROR* atombios stuck executing F6D8
> (len 487, WS 0, PS 4) @ 0xF719
>
> This doesn't look like the standard squeeze kernel, since squeeze
> doesn't contain v2.6.34-rc4~12^2~50^2~17 (drm/radeon/kms: catch
> atombios infinite loop and break out of it, 2010-03-02). It can't be
> a mainline kernel, since the just-mentioned infinite loop checker was
> not introduced until after a radeon ABI bump (2.1.0). What did I
> miss?
>
> Puzzled,
> Jonathan
>
> (That mystery aside, here are some bugfix patches to consider
> backporting.
>
> - v2.6.34-rc4~12^2~50^2~17 (drm/radeon/kms: catch atombios infinite
> loop and break out of it, 2010-03-02)
>
> - v2.6.36-rc3~9^2~79^2~24 (drm/radeon/kms/atom: bump atom loop
> timeout from 1 sec to 5 secs, 2010-06-30)
>
> - v2.6.37-rc8~26^2~2 (drm/radeon/kms: reorder display resume to avoid
> problems, 2010-12-20): "This fixes the infamous atombios timeouts
> on resume.")
jonathan
i always ran debian testing and so have had whatever was in those repos ... i use my machines for dev so try to keep away from anything too bleeding edge ... i doubt i would have added sid or experimental repos for fear of breaking things
hth
lauren