Re: X "Hangs" with RS690 + 2.6.26

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:47:42AM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:10:07AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>>I've started to see "hangs" with X on an ATI RS690 with a 2.6.26 kernel.
> >>>The symptoms are that load average goes up, X stops accepting keypresses
> >>>or mouse clicks, but the cursor still moves around the screen in
> >>>response to the mouse being moved. I can't switch to a VT but can ssh in
> >>>remotely to see that things are still running. I don't seem to be able
> >>>to kill X but "shutdown -r now" cleanly reboots.
> >>>
> >>>radeon driver is recent git - 1c5858484da4fb1c9bc3ac3b4d7a97863ab99730
> >>>but I've seen it with older revisions too.
> >>>
> >>>It can take a couple of days for me to hit the problem, so a git bisect
> >>>could be a lengthy process. If anyone has any suggestions about faster
> >>>ways to track down the issue I'd like to hear them.
> >>
> >>git log v2.6.25..v2.6.26 drivers/char/drm
> >>
> >>5e35eff13f7dd0f5c1d82b3b4708b2f7a5f44113
> >>5cfb6956073a9e42d44a26790b7800980634d037
> >
> >No joy.
> >
> >>d396db321bcaec54345e7e9e87cea8482d6ae3a8
> >
> >I thought this might be it; nearly 5 days of uptime rather than the
> >usual less than 2. But I got the same symptoms today so I'll continue
> >working down the list.
> >
> >>259434acccbc823ee8bc00b2d2689ccccd25e1fd
> >>d7463eb41d88a39de2653fd41857c4ccddb8707b
> >>45e519052e8f583a709edd442a23f59581d3fe42
> >>2735977b12cb0f113aae24afff04747b6d0f5bf1
> >>3722bfc607d46275369865c02fe8694486d640b5
> >>fa0d71b967506031f7cb08ced6095d1c4f988594
> >>9f18409ea3d778a171a9505c0a849d846f352bd0
> 
> Any joy ?

259434acccbc823ee8bc00b2d2689ccccd25e1fd
d7463eb41d88a39de2653fd41857c4ccddb8707b
45e519052e8f583a709edd442a23f59581d3fe42

all don't seem to be the problem. It's getting harder to do the reverts
and I'm away this week so I haven't got any further yet.

> I apparently have the same problem with my RS690. I noticed it after
> upgrading from 2.6.25 to 2.6.26, alongside xorg-server (1.4.99.904 to
> 1.4.99.905) and Mesa (7.1-rc1 to 7.1-rc3). The ATI driver is 6.9.0.
> 
> Here it always freezes in a few minutes or less than an hour.  When it
> happens, I'm not running any 3D application and the CPU is idle. I may
> be just typing something in a shell. But it works disabling DRI.

Likewise, I'm not doing anything 3D related (at least, not consciously).

J.

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