I'm using the new prebuilt debs that include an Xorg server and I get a hardlock just after mode swich, befour the desktop shows. There is no usefull debuging I have been able todo, exept to say commenting out the dri Xmod stopes the problem.
2005.01.26-2 from John Lightsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Untill now I thought it was just me and my r200. --- Geller Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Richard Stellingwerff wrote: > > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:45:47 -0500, Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Does it also happen without either or all of the options in the > radeon > > > device section? > > > > I just removed the AGPFastWrite and DynamicClocks options. The crashes > > still happen though. > > Looks like not only I have problems with the radeon driver. I update the > X.org, drm, Mesa CVS once a week, but haven't found a working > combination > since 4-5 months... > > I don't intend to start a flame-war, but is there anybody who can use > the > r200 driver without X crashes? I'm testing X.org CVS regularly (almost > on > every weekend) with my RV280, with the latest linux 2.6 kernel. > > I checked out X.org on last Saturday, played with Descent3 for some > minutes, it didn't crashed. Good. Restarted X, started Descent3 again, > it > crashed almost immediately, as expected :(( That's why I have a > 'shutdown > -r 5' in the background, when I test X.org CVS... > > Compiled Mesa CVS, installed the libraries and the driver, started D3. > (Descent3 looks great, textures are visible, thanks to Eric Anholt's > projected texture patch which is in Mesa CVS) The game crashed X in a > few > seconds. This was expected too :(( > > I tried out other OpenGL-based games, unfortunately, I can crash X with > almost every game I have - it is only a matter of time. I tried setting > color depth to 16 bit, changed the AGP to 1x in the system BIOS, none of > these helped. > > Last time I used the 2.6.11-rc3 linux kernel, X.org CVS (updated on > 20050205), Mesa CVS (20050205, linux-x86-dri target). I didn't built the > drm module, I used the kernel's radeon drm module. I used to test the > drm > compiled from the CVS version, but I found out, that it is only a matter > of time to crash the X server, so I skipped the drm CVS test. Of course > the real tests will be these: > > 1. build and install everything from CVS, if the X server can be > crashed, > go to step 2, otherwise be happy :)) > 2. use the X.org CVS version with the stock kernel's drm, if X still > crashes, go to step 3. Otherwise use the X.org CVS, live without > projected textures... > 3. use the X.org and Mesa CVS versions. If X still crashes, then the bug > can be in X.org or Mesa or in drm - I'm not able to trace down the > problem. > > Unfortunately all 3 scenarios give the same result: X crashes. > > Is there any way I can help to track down the problem(s)? My machine > doesn't have network connection, so I can use only scripts which run in > the background. With expect and gdb maybe it is possible to get at least > a > backtrace from my non-local-interactive machine. > > Regards, > > Geller Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
