X/gnome hangs on my EeePC (900HA) with latest git kernel when PAE is
enabled. X seems to start OK. I see the login screen and after entering
the password, I see initial gnome loading with desktop icons and stuff
and the desktops refreshed after a couple of seconds with complete white
background. I only see the mouse pointer on desktop which I can move
around. The system is alive in general and ssh-able. I see no errors in
dmesg. Attached is the config that reproduces the problem for me. I have
FC10 userspace.

If I disable PAE from this config, things work fine.

Initially, I saw the problem with latest git. But, I later saw the same
problem with .28 as well. Rolling back further, the problem was not
present in 2.6.28-rc3 and git bisect narrowed this regression to below
commit.

Thanks,
Venki


ac5c4e76180a74c7f922f6fa71ace0cef45fa433 is first bad commit
commit ac5c4e76180a74c7f922f6fa71ace0cef45fa433
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 19 15:38:34 2008 +1000

    drm/i915: GEM on PAE has problems - disable it for now.
    
    On PAE systems, GEM allocates pages using shmem, and passes these
    pages to be bound into AGP, however the AGP interfaces + the x86
    set_memory interfaces all take unsigned long not dma_addr_t.
    
    The initial fix for this was a mess, so we need to do this correctly
    for 2.6.29.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

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