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

[John Schmidt <jaschmidt@uofu.net>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:54 pm, Randall Smith wrote:
> 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

Randall,

Is it possible for you to try and install the pre-built kernel just to rule 
out your problems.  I experienced the same errors with my ATI Radeon 9000 
chip when I upgraded from 2.6.5-2 to 2.6.5-3.  I then downgraded to 2.6.3 and 
saw that this bug was reported and a new 2.6.5-4 was added several days ago.  
I installed this kernel and haven't experienced any problems.  Again, all of 
my kernels are the pre-built ones.  

John