Bug#651532: System crashes (kernel oops) when loading ATI firmware

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 651532 src:linux-2.6 3.1.1-1
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Hi,

Camaleón wrote:

> As soon as the firmware package is removed (which means no more 3D 
> accelerated graphics capabilities) the system runs normally and no 
> kernel oops presents.
>
> root@linux:~# lspci | grep VGA
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600]
[...]
>  radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10040msec
>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
>  WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_3.1.1-1-i386-6vi5gY/linux-2.6-3.1.1/debian/build/source_i386_none/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c:267 radeon_fence_wait+0x22e/0x298 [radeon]()
>  Hardware name: iMac5,1
>  GPU lockup (waiting for 0x00005C23 last fence id 0x00005C20)

Thanks for reporting it.  Can you reproduce this without the virtualbox
and wl drivers?

There have been some changes in this area recently upstream (e.g.,
v3.2-rc1~135^2~5 and v3.2-rc1~11^2~10).  Please test with v3.2-rc4
or later from experimental, and if it still exhibits the problem,
send a summary to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/, product DRI,
component DRM/Radeon and let us know the bug number so we can track it.

In your summary, be sure to include steps to reproduce the trouble,
any visible symptoms, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, full "dmesg" output from
booting and reproducing the bug, and a link to
http://bugs.debian.org/651532 in case readers want the full story.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan