Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754001AbYHJTSn (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:18:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753316AbYHJTSf (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:18:35 -0400 Received: from the.earth.li ([217.147.81.2]:51956 "EHLO the.earth.li" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753295AbYHJTSe (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:18:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:18:24 -0300 From: Jonathan McDowell To: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <2@pervalidus.net> Cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: X "Hangs" with RS690 + 2.6.26 Message-ID: <20080810191823.GB4977@earth.li> References: <20080725094334.GC30002@earth.li> <20080801160256.GV30002@earth.li> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2985 Lines: 69 On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:47:42AM -0300, Fr?d?ric 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. -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] No program done by a hacker will [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] work unless he is on the system. [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] [ -- 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/