Bug#275117: xfree86 locks/loops with ati radeon too
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 22:24 +0100, funky soul wrote:
>
> i'd like to report that i experience very similar behaviour of xfree86 regarding
> bug# 275117 and bug# 179647 on my system too:
>
> symptoms:
>
> - display freezes except for the mouse pointer
> - mouse pointer will not change shapes any more
> - clicking, draging or scrolling has no effect
> - typing on the keyboard has no effect
> - cannot switch to console using Ctrl+Alt+F*
> - can log in from remote via ssh (and run strace for example)
> - can often not kill xserver (neither kill -9 nor Ctrl+Alt+backspace)
> - can in the above case not shut down the computer correctly
> - XFree86 uses 99%+ of cpu ressources
> - strace XFree86 repeats
> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
> sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> ioctl(5, 0x6444, 0) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
> ioctl(5, 0x6444, 0) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy)
> - sometime happens after a few minutes sometimes after a few hours
> - happens most often while using konqueror, konsole or mplayer
> - gets worse after a few minutes (very slow or locks up completely)
These are common symptoms of a graphics chip lockup. The same symptoms
aren't necessarily caused by the same problem; in particular, lockups
are usually driver specific problems, so you added this information to
the wrong bug reports.
> Section "Device"
> # general identification and options:
> Identifier "Radeon 9250 (9200PRO) [RV280]"
> VendorName "ATi"
> Driver "radeon"
> BusID "PCI:01:00:00"
> # ChipID 0x5964
> # VideoRam <256MB>
> # Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
> Option "BackingStore"
> Option "AGPMode" "4"
> EndSection
[...]
> (WW) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled, not initializing the DRI
I assume you disabled acceleration to work around the problem? Does just
disabling the DRI instead work around the problem as well? If so, does
just not using Option "AGPMode" work around the problem?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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