Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754496Ab2FIQOf (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:14:35 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:63083 "EHLO mail-qa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753367Ab2FIQOe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:14:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [41.212.116.88] In-Reply-To: References: From: Brian Gitonga Marete Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:14:12 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Regression] [Radeon] Stream command failures and render problems in Evergreen (Radeon HD 5600) in kernel 3.4 To: Jerome Glisse Cc: LKML , David Airlie , Alex Deucher , Jerome Glisse Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3982 Lines: 90 On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Brian Gitonga Marete >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote: >>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Update your libdrm to libdrm from git should fix your issue. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello Jerome, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks for looking into this. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am afraid that even with the very latest libdrm (git 93a5117d), the >>>>>>>> rendering is still broken. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What else should I try? I would revert the patch that git-bisect >>>>>>>> fingered (your patch, git 285484e2d, Linux mainline) but there are >>>>>>>> merge problems when I try to do that, which I have not yet looked >>>>>>>> into. Perhaps you can see if you can help me revert that patch so that >>>>>>>> we can see if the problem then goes away? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> What happen if you upgrade to xf86-video-ati from git ? >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello Jerome, >>>>>> >>>>>> Once again, thanks a lot for your help. >>>>>> >>>>>> Some progress but also a setback: Upgrading to the latest >>>>>> xf86-video-ati git gets rid of the stream command failures - No more >>>>>> error messages in dmesg(8). But then, now, rendering is completely >>>>>> messed up. Previously, it was mostly the window boundaries that were >>>>>> blurred/messed but now also entire windows and text so that you can't >>>>>> read anything from the desktop. (For example, the previous render >>>>>> problems would still allow me to use gnome-terminal even though its >>>>>> frames were completely blurred. Now the text withing gnome-terminal is >>>>>> also blurred/smudged) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I should add that in this case rendering is completely messed up in >>>>> _both_ 3.3.x and 3.4. But the stream command failures in 3.4 go away >>>>> upon upgrading to the latext xf86-video-ati git HEAD. >>>> >>>> Ok. All is fixed in kernel v3.4 if I additionally upgrade Mesa to the >>>> latest git. Jerome, many thanks for your help on this! >>>> >>>> So to summarize, the 3.4 breakage in Ubuntu 11.04 (and probably other >>>> distributions released around the same time) is fixed by: >>>> >>>> a) Upgrade libdrm to latest GIT as of this writing (93a5117d5) >>>> b) Upgrade xf86-video-ati to latest GIT as of this writing (5888371) >>>> c) Upgrade mesa to latest GIT as of this writing (529476b) >>>> >>>> Now kernel 3.4 works on my laptop. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> BGM. >>> >>> Brian can you please test patch below on 6.14.0 ddx and old mesa (ie >>> revert to ubuntu mesa & ddx) and report if it fix your issue. Thanks >>> >>> http://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/0001-drm-radeon-fix-tiling-and-command-stream-checking-on.patch >>> >> ?OK. Will test and report back. Thanks! >> >> -- >> Brian Gitonga Marete >> Toshnix Systems - http://toshnix.com > > I uploaded a v3 version same url, the v2 won't work for you. v3 should > work (at least according to my local testing with same gpu as you and > same use case) OK. I actually hadn't gotten around to testing yet. Will do so later today. About libdrm, should I test against git or the Ubuntu version? -- Brian Gitonga Marete Toshnix Systems - http://toshnix.com -- 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/