Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-25 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com
On Monday, March 24, 2014 2:23 PM, Fred heitk...@ameritech.net wrote:
 
On 03/15/14 04:34, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:

here is a simple test case that reproduces the issue on my machine:
dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ cat open_example.c
#include unistd.h
#include fcntl.h
#include stdio.h
#include errno.h
#include string.h
 
int main()
{
    char *param1 = ok;
    char *param2 = .;
    int filedesc = open(/dev/dri/card1, O_RDWR, 0);
    if (filedesc) {
    param1 = ERROR: ;
    param2 = strerror(errno);
    }
    printf(fd = %d, status = %s%s\n, filedesc, param1,
param2);
    close(filedesc);

    return 0;
}dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ gcc open_example.c -o
open_example  ./open_example 
fd = -1, status = ERROR: Invalid argument




On Friday, March 14, 2014 4:22 PM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:45 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:16 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net wrote:
 
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:23 -0700, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote: 

 
 
 On
  Monday, March 10, 2014
  5:58 AM, Michel Dänzer
  mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:
 
 On Sam,
  2014-03-08 at 11:41
  -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
wrote:
 
 
  On Sat, Mar 8,
  2014 at 2:56 AM, 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com
  
 
   [    51.829]
  (EE) RADEON(0): [drm]
  Failed to open DRM
  device for
 
  
  pci::06:00.0: No
  such file or directory
 
 'No such
  file or directory'
  sounds like something
  is deleting
 your
  /dev/dri/card* files,
  or not creating them
  in the first place.
 Maybe
  check your udev setup.
 
 If it
  only happens with a
  3.13 kernel but not
  with a 3.12 one,
 another
 option is
  to bisect the kernel.
. 
. Greetings
  Michel,
. 
. dri node do
  exists, see:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ ll /dev/dri
 total 0
 crw-rw+ 1
  root video 226,  0 Mar
  10 09:27 card0
 crw-rw+ 1
  root video 226,  1 Mar
  10 09:27 card1
 crw-rw+ 1
  root video 226,  2 Mar
  10 09:27 card2
 crw-rw  1
  root video 226, 64 Mar
  10 09:27 controlD64
 crw-rw  1
  root video 226, 65 Mar
  10 09:27 controlD65
 crw-rw  1
  root video 226, 66 Mar
  10 09:27 controlD66
 
 I think that
  the way to find the
  cause on my part is to
  check the
 origin of
  that msg in Xorg.log.
 
 is that a
  xserver msg or
  xf86-video-ati msg?


The message is from
the radeon driver, but
it's because drmOpen()
in
libdrm fails. It
would indeed be
interesting to track
down where 

Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-15 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com
here is a simple test case that reproduces the issue on my machine:
dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ cat open_example.c
#include unistd.h
#include fcntl.h
#include stdio.h
#include errno.h
#include string.h
 
int main()
{
    char *param1 = ok;
    char *param2 = .;
    int filedesc = open(/dev/dri/card1, O_RDWR, 0);
    if (filedesc) {
    param1 = ERROR: ;
    param2 = strerror(errno);
    }
    printf(fd = %d, status = %s%s\n, filedesc, param1, param2);
    close(filedesc);

    return 0;
}dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ gcc open_example.c -o open_example  
./open_example 
fd = -1, status = ERROR: Invalid argument




On Friday, March 14, 2014 4:22 PM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:45 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:16 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net wrote:
 
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:23 -0700, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
 
 On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:58 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:
 
 On Sam, 2014-03-08 at 11:41 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
  
   [    51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
   pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory
 
 'No such file or directory' sounds like something is deleting

 your /dev/dri/card* files, or not creating them in the first place.
 Maybe check your udev setup.
 
 If it only happens with a 3.13 kernel but not with a 3.12 one,
 another
 option is to bisect the kernel.
. 
. Greetings Michel,
. 
. dri node do exists, see:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ ll /dev/dri
 total 0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  0 Mar 10 09:27 card0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  1 Mar 10 09:27 card1
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  2 Mar 10 09:27 card2

 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 64 Mar 10
 09:27 controlD64
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 65 Mar 10 09:27 controlD65
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 66 Mar 10 09:27 controlD66
 
 I think that the way to find the cause on my part is to check the
 origin of that msg in Xorg.log.
 
 is that a xserver msg or xf86-video-ati msg?

The message is from the radeon driver, but it's because drmOpen() in
libdrm fails. It would indeed be interesting to track down where the 'No
such file or directory' error originates from.

will do, when I'll have more info, I'll update.

Greetings Michel,

I've tried to track the source if that error,
 I've enabled dbg prints in libdrm and found this:
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::06:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci::00:02.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -22
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)

looking in the code I see this:
    fd = open(buf, O_RDWR, 0);
    drmMsg(drmOpenDevice: open result is %d, (%s)\n,
    fd, fd  0 ? strerror(errno) :
 OK);
    if (fd = 0)
    return fd;

I think that the issue might be that the file cannot be opened for that mode as 
the path is printed above and it is ok.

any ideas what might it be?


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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-15 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:34 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 here is a simple test case that reproduces the issue on my machine:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ cat open_example.c
 #include unistd.h
 #include fcntl.h
 #include stdio.h
 #include errno.h
 #include string.h

 int main()
 {
 char *param1 = ok;
 char *param2 = .;
 int filedesc = open(/dev/dri/card1, O_RDWR, 0);
 if (filedesc) {
 param1 = ERROR: ;
 param2 = strerror(errno);
 }
 printf(fd = %d, status = %s%s\n, filedesc, param1, param2);
 close(filedesc);

 return 0;
 }dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ gcc open_example.c -o open_example 
 ./open_example
 fd = -1, status = ERROR: Invalid argument


Does booting with radeon.runpm=0 on the kernel command line in grub
fix it?  If so, it should be fixed with these patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9babd35ad72af631547c7ca294bc2e931cc40e58
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7848865914c6a63ead674f0f5604b77df7d3874f

Alex


 On Friday, March 14, 2014 4:22 PM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
 stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:45 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
 stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:16 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:23 -0700, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:



 On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:58 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:

 On Sam, 2014-03-08 at 11:41 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
  
   [51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
   pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory
 
 'No such file or directory' sounds like something is deleting
 your /dev/dri/card* files, or not creating them in the first place.
 Maybe check your udev setup.
 
 If it only happens with a 3.13 kernel but not with a 3.12 one,
 another
 option is to bisect the kernel.
 .
 . Greetings Michel,
 .
 . dri node do exists, see:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ ll /dev/dri
 total 0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  0 Mar 10 09:27 card0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  1 Mar 10 09:27 card1
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  2 Mar 10 09:27 card2
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 64 Mar 10 09:27 controlD64
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 65 Mar 10 09:27 controlD65
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 66 Mar 10 09:27 controlD66

 I think that the way to find the cause on my part is to check the
 origin of that msg in Xorg.log.

 is that a xserver msg or xf86-video-ati msg?


The message is from the radeon driver, but it's because drmOpen() in
libdrm fails. It would indeed be interesting to track down where the 'No
such file or directory' error originates from.

 will do, when I'll have more info, I'll update.

 Greetings Michel,

 I've tried to track the source if that error, I've enabled dbg prints in
 libdrm and found this:
 (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
 drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::06:00.0
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
 drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
 drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11
 drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci::00:02.0
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)
 drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -22
 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)

 looking in the code I see this:
 fd = open(buf, O_RDWR, 0);
 drmMsg(drmOpenDevice: open result is %d, (%s)\n,
 fd, fd  0 ? strerror(errno) : OK);
 if (fd = 0)
 return fd;

 I think that the issue might be that the file cannot be opened for that mode
 as the path is printed above and it is ok.

 any ideas what might it be?

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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-15 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com


On Saturday, March 15, 2014 3:33 PM, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote:
 
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:34 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 here is a simple test case that reproduces the issue on my machine:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ cat open_example.c
 #include unistd.h
 #include fcntl.h
 #include stdio.h
 #include errno.h
 #include string.h

 int main()
 {
         char *param1 = ok;
         char *param2 = .;
         int filedesc = open(/dev/dri/card1, O_RDWR, 0);
         if (filedesc) {
                 param1 = ERROR: ;
                 param2 = strerror(errno);
         }
         printf(fd = %d, status = %s%s\n, filedesc, param1, param2);
         close(filedesc);

         return 0;
 }dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ gcc open_example.c -o open_example 
 ./open_example
 fd = -1, status = ERROR: Invalid argument


Does booting with radeon.runpm=0 on the kernel command line in grub
fix it?  If so, it should be fixed with these patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9babd35ad72af631547c7ca294bc2e931cc40e58
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7848865914c6a63ead674f0f5604b77df7d3874f

Alex

Greetings Alex, it work with radeon.runpm=0, I'll test the patches now and 
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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-15 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com


On Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:41 PM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 


On Saturday, March 15, 2014 3:33 PM, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote:
 
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:34 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 here is a simple test case that
 reproduces the issue on my machine:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ cat open_example.c
 #include unistd.h
 #include fcntl.h
 #include stdio.h
 #include errno.h
 #include string.h

 int main()
 {
         char *param1 = ok;
         char *param2 = .;
         int filedesc = open(/dev/dri/card1, O_RDWR, 0);
         if (filedesc) {
                 param1 = ERROR: ;
             
    param2 = strerror(errno);
         }
         printf(fd = %d, status = %s%s\n, filedesc, param1, param2);
         close(filedesc);

         return 0;
 }dagg@NCC-5001-D ~/workspace $ gcc open_example.c -o open_example 
 ./open_example
 fd = -1, status = ERROR: Invalid argument


Does booting with radeon.runpm=0 on the kernel command line in grub
fix it?  If so, it should be fixed with these patches:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9babd35ad72af631547c7ca294bc2e931cc40e58
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7848865914c6a63ead674f0f5604b77df7d3874f

Alex

Greetings Alex, it work with radeon.runpm=0, I'll test the patches now and 
report back. 

combination of both patches (the first was existing already in 3,13,6) the gpus 
are working again.

Thanks!
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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-14 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:45 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com 
stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 5:16 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net wrote:
 
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:23 -0700, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:

 
 
 On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:58 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:
 
 On Sam, 2014-03-08 at 11:41 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
  
   [    51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
   pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory
 
 'No such file or directory' sounds like something is deleting

 your /dev/dri/card* files, or not creating them in the first place.
 Maybe check your udev setup.
 
 If it only happens with a 3.13 kernel but not with a 3.12 one,
 another
 option is to bisect the kernel.
. 
. Greetings Michel,
. 
. dri node do exists, see:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ ll /dev/dri
 total 0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  0 Mar 10 09:27 card0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  1 Mar 10 09:27 card1
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  2 Mar 10 09:27 card2
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 64 Mar 10
 09:27 controlD64
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 65 Mar 10 09:27 controlD65
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 66 Mar 10 09:27 controlD66
 
 I think that the way to find the cause on my part is to check the
 origin of that msg in Xorg.log.
 
 is that a xserver msg or xf86-video-ati msg?

The message is from the radeon driver, but it's because drmOpen() in
libdrm fails. It would indeed be interesting to track down where the 'No
such file or directory' error originates from.

will do, when I'll have more info, I'll update.

Greetings Michel,

I've tried to track the source if that error, I've enabled dbg prints in libdrm 
and found this:
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::06:00.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci::00:02.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -22
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (Invalid argument)

looking in the code I see this:
    fd = open(buf, O_RDWR, 0);
    drmMsg(drmOpenDevice: open result is %d, (%s)\n,
    fd, fd  0 ? strerror(errno) : OK);
    if (fd = 0)
    return fd;

I think that the issue might be that the file cannot be opened for that mode as 
the path is printed above and it is ok.

any ideas what might it be?
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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:23 -0700, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
 
 On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:58 AM, Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net
 wrote:
 
 On Sam, 2014-03-08 at 11:41 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
  
   [51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
   pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory
 
 'No such file or directory' sounds like something is deleting
 your /dev/dri/card* files, or not creating them in the first place.
 Maybe check your udev setup.
 
 If it only happens with a 3.13 kernel but not with a 3.12 one,
 another
 option is to bisect the kernel.
 
 Greetings Michel,
 
 dri node do exists, see:
 dagg@NCC-5001-D ~ $ ll /dev/dri
 total 0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  0 Mar 10 09:27 card0
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  1 Mar 10 09:27 card1
 crw-rw+ 1 root video 226,  2 Mar 10 09:27 card2
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 64 Mar 10 09:27 controlD64
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 65 Mar 10 09:27 controlD65
 crw-rw  1 root video 226, 66 Mar 10 09:27 controlD66
 
 I think that the way to find the cause on my part is to check the
 origin of that msg in Xorg.log.
 
 is that a xserver msg or xf86-video-ati msg?

The message is from the radeon driver, but it's because drmOpen() in
libdrm fails. It would indeed be interesting to track down where the 'No
such file or directory' error originates from.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer|  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast  |Mesa and X developer

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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2014-03-08 at 11:41 -0800, stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:

 On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com
 
  [51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
  pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory

'No such file or directory' sounds like something is deleting
your /dev/dri/card* files, or not creating them in the first place.
Maybe check your udev setup.

If it only happens with a 3.13 kernel but not with a 3.12 one, another
option is to bisect the kernel.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer|  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast  |Mesa and X developer

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Re: RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device: No such file or directory error

2014-03-08 Thread stompdagg...@yahoo.com
On Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:01 PM, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote:
 
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:56 AM, stompdagg...@yahoo.com

stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote:
 greetings,

 since I've updated my kernel to 3.13.x I'm unable to start X on my radeon
 cards.

 the setup works great in kernel 3.12.8, here is part of Xorg log for that
 adaper:
 [    51.782] (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
 [    51.782] (II) RADEON(0): RADEONPreInit_KMS
 [    51.782] (II) RADEON(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen
 section
         Default Screen Section for depth/fbbpp 24/32
 [    51.782] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
 [    51.782] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp
 pixmaps)
 [    51.782] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor
 [    51.782] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
 [    51.782] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
 [    51.782] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon HD 3600 XT (ChipID =
 0x9598)
 [    51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for
 pci::06:00.0: No such file or directory
 [    51.829] (EE) RADEON(0): Kernel modesetting setup failed
 [    51.829] (II) RADEON(0): RADEONFreeScreen
 [    51.829] (II) UnloadModule: radeon
 [    51.829] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
 [    51.829] (EE)
 Fatal server error:
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 is that a X bug? what is the right place to debug it, X or xf86-video-ati?

There's some problems with your kernel.  Check your dmesg output and
make sure the radeon kernel driver loaded properly.  Depending on your
setup you may be missing the necessary firmware files from your
initrd.

Alex

Greetings Alex,

I've double checked both my kernel config and dmesg but haven't found any 
issue, I might be missing it thought.
my fw files are built into the kernel,

here are some outputs:
dmesg: http://bpaste.net/show/186582/
kernel config: http://bpaste.net/show/186583/
lspci: http://bpaste.net/show/186584/

note that my setup is a multiseat setup and both of my radeon cards are showing 
the same symptoms.
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