Re: 2.6.10 dies when X uses PCI radeon 9200 SE, binary search result

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Makes sense to me -- I went from 6.8 to 6.9rc2 and that is I think
when my X died.  Now mine is an APG not PCI, but it may be related.
 
on Friday 01/21/2005 Helge Hafting(helgehaf@aitel.hist.no) wrote
 > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:41:23PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > I'm fine with adding this code, but we still don't know if this is the
 > > > cause of his problem. The debug output can determine if this really is
 > > > the source of the problem or if it is somewhere else.
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > I actually doubt it is this stuff.. my guess is that it is something
 > > nasty like ACPI breaking int10 for X or something like that... it
 > > seems a lot more subtle than the usually things that break when we
 > > mess with the DRM :-)
 > > 
 > The search was a short one.  
 > 2.6.9-rc1 works fine, just like 2.6.8.1
 > 2.6.9-rc2 crashes.  I didn't find any kernel revisions between those two.
 > 
 > It is interesting to note that the 2.6.9 crash was a bit different.
 > X got a bit further according to the log.
 > During the test, everything stopped, but the machine wasn't completely
 > dead like it usually is.  Numlock actually toggled the LED, but the screen was 
 > black and I could not break out of X with ctrl+alt+backspace. So I tried to 
 > switch consoles, and the kernel died a bit more.  No more numlock LED
 > toggling, but sysrq+S+U+B actually worked.  The discs synced and
 > the thing booted.  Hm, perhaps  X always got a bit further, but
 > now the disc sync preserved more of the log?
 > 
 > Here is how it ended (I have all of it if necessary):
 > 
 > (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x8000000)
 > (II) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=12, fd=120, pd=1
 > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
 > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 > drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Unknown error 999)
 > drmOpenDevice: Open failed
 > drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 > drmOpenDevice: open result is 6, (OK)
 > drmGetBusid returned ''
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid "PCI:0:8:0"
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0xe0920000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0xe0920000 to 0xafd8c000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xe0000000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] 8192 kB allocated with handle 0xe097d000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] ring handle = 0xe097d000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring mapped at 0xafc8b000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring contents 0x00000000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] ring read ptr handle = 0xe0a7e000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring read ptr mapped at 0xafc8a000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Ring read ptr contents 0x00000000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] vertex/indirect buffers handle = 0xe0a7f000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Vertex/indirect buffers mapped at 0xafa8a000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] Vertex/indirect buffers contents 0x00000000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] GART texture map handle = 0xe0c7f000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [pci] GART Texture map mapped at 0xaf5aa000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0xf6000000
 > (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
 > (II) RADEON(0): CP in BM mode
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 MB GART aperture
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using 1 MB for the ring buffer
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using 2 MB for vertex/indirect buffers
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using 5 MB for GART textures
 > (II) RADEON(0): Memory manager initialized to (0,0) (1280,8191)
 > (II) RADEON(0): Reserved area from (0,1024) to (1280,1026)
 > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7165
 > (II) RADEON(0): Will use back buffer at offset 0x1400000
 > (II) RADEON(0): Will use depth buffer at offset 0x1900000
 > (II) RADEON(0): Will use 100352 kb for textures at offset 0x1e00000
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
 >         Screen to screen bit blits
 >         Solid filled rectangles
 >         8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
 >         Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion
 >         Solid Lines
 >         Scanline Image Writes
 >         Offscreen Pixmaps
 >         Setting up tile and stipple cache:
 >                 32 128x128 slots
 >                 32 256x256 slots
 >                 16 512x512 slots
 > (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration enabled
 > (==) RADEON(0): Backing store disabled
 > (==) RADEON(0): Silken mouse enabled
 > (II) RADEON(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1026)
 > (II) RADEON(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 7161
 > (**) Option "dpms"
 > (**) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
 > (WW) RADEON(0): Option "DynamicClocks" is not used
 > (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
 > (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete
 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers
 > 
 > 
 > I hope this can be of help,
 > Helge Hafting
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