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

[Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc>]

John Schmidt wrote:
> 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
I installed the kernel from source (kernel-source-2.6.5 version 4) and 
compiled a custom kernel.  So I do believe I have the latest kernel.

Randall