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From: Robert Moonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: Suspected bug 2.6.21-2
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
xserver freezes system when starting
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X-Mailer: reportbug 3.39
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:00:29 +1000
Status: RO
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
Followup-For: Bug #392915
>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:20:30PM +1000, Robert Moonen wrote:
>>>> >>>> Attached is the transcript from my other lenny installation,
showing
>>>> >>>> when a lockup has occured, ie. no normal shutdown, along with the
>>>> >>>> associated xorg.conf file.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> That all looks completely normal to me. Have you tried swapping the
>>> >>> GPU into other systems to see if it's a particular piece of hardware
>>> >>> or combination thereof that's upsetting the current driver?
>> >> Hi Trent
>> >>
>> >> Well, it's not the radeon driver.
>> >> Using xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.3-2 on this system now, this
>> >> installation is using linux-image-2.6.22-1-686-bigmem and is broken to
>> >> the point where I have to use the vesa driver.
>> >> Another installation also using xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.3-2
>> >> and linux-image-2.6.21-2-686, which I posted the details of, also
>> >> locked up the radeon 9200se on initializing DRM.
>> >>
>> >> But using xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.3-2 on an installation of
>> >> lenny I installed last night/morning on this system, with an older
>> >> kernel, linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, is initializing DRM just fine, so it
>> >> seems to be an interaction b/w kernel and video driver.
> >
> > Actually, it's probably not an interaction with the kernel either, I
> > have dpkg --get-selections lists for most of the installations, but they
> > don't really mean a heck of a lot to me.
Well, just to confirm, I have upgraded the latest installation to
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 and upon powering down, then restarting the
system using the newest kernel image the unit worked just fine and DRM
was initialized. However, upon leaving the system idle for a period of
time it locked solid, so it seems to be something to do with DPMI and
the kernel.
On testing further I power cycled the machine and rebooted using
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, then procedded to allow the power saving
functions of DPMI to execute as normally configured in the screensaver.
However everything worked perfectly and the machine resumed normally.
So the problem definitely seems to be with kernels --> 2.6.21-2-686
interacting with the radeon driver 1:6.6.3-2 to cause the machine to
completely lock, can't ssh in or anything.
- -- Package-specific info:
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.90a tools for generating an
initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries [i
- -- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.21-2-686:
true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.21-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.21-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.21-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.21-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.21-2-686:
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