Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261184AbVDIIvD (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:51:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261187AbVDIIvD (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:51:03 -0400 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([62.78.96.67]:48032 "EHLO mail.zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261184AbVDIIu5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 04:50:57 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:50:56 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: Dave Airlie Cc: Matti Aarnio , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [bk tree] DRM add a version check.. for 2.6.12 (distro kernel maintainers + drm users plz read also...) Message-ID: <20050409085056.GK3858@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <20050407114933.GH3858@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20050407125345.GI3858@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1518 Lines: 37 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:00:07PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > My lattest runs were with 2 days old FC development (a.k.a. "bleeding edge") > > environment with xorg-11-** of same age. Then I noticed that these DRM > > patches didn't make it into kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1226_FC4.i686.rpm, > > and I made 2.6.12-rc2 -- just in case it had fixed the problem... > > well these patches shouldn't really affect it.. :-( > > Could the card-lockups be recovered in a bit nicer way ? > > (And detected, too!) > > In theory yes, but there isn't really anything you can do except reboot, > as usually the CP (command processor) is hung, and you have to do a full > GPU reset, I can't imagine X or Linux consoles surviving it too well... > ATI have a VPU Recover in their windows driver which does it.. but they > know their cards a bit better than we do.. > > it might be worth turning Render acceleration off Option "RenderAccel" > "No" in xorg.conf and see if it gets any stabler... With that option set, the TuxRacer didn't hang anywhere in practice fields, but choosing "Credits" did hang the system in seconds. > Dave. > -- > David Airlie, Software Engineer > http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie > Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG /Matti - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/