Re: X goes into a loop with DRI turned on.

[John Schmidt <jaschmidt@uofu.net>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:51 am, Randall Smith wrote:
> I've run DRI on this machine before and turned it off so that I could
> use suspend-to-disk.  I'm up to the 2.6.5 kernel.  I have an ATI 7500
> mobile Radeon card.  With DRI turned off, X starts up just fine.  When I
> turn on DRI X goes into an endless loop and my machine will not respond
> (CAPS LOCK sanity test fails).  This is from the X log:
>
> (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP start -1020
> (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP GetBuffer -1020
> (EE) RADEON(0): GetBuffer timed out, resetting engine...
> (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...
> (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP reset -1020
> (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP start -1020
> (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP GetBuffer -1020
>
> It goes through this loop until I power off the machine.

Install kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 which is up to:

Filename: 
pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.5-i386/kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686_2.6.5-4_i386.deb

in Sid.  More the versiou previous to 2.6.5-4_i386.deb had some Radeon 
microcode removed.  If you are tracking Sid, then you should be able to 
update 2.6.5 to the latest kernel image and your DRI should then work.

John