Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> but I have next problem: X server locked after a few minutes playing in >> quake2 ;( My computer do not react on mouse or keyboard activity... but >> this is not bus lock --- mplayer is contining playing music and I can login >> on the computer through SSH. >> >> it is the head of top output: >> >> top - 11:02:53 up 19:53, 8 users, load average: 1.22, 0.57, 0.25 >> Tasks: 59 total, 3 running, 54 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie >> Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 99.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si >> Mem: 255232k total, 185004k used, 70228k free, 29812k buffers >> Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 117208k cached >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> >> 1444 root 25 0 148m 5832 3332 R 99.3 2.3 1:59.36 X >> >> 1423 dima 15 0 2628 1084 908 S 0.7 0.4 0:01.30 esd >> >> 1487 dima 16 0 1864 964 764 R 0.3 0.4 0:00.14 top >> >> >> As I can see --- all cpu power eaten by X server, but I cant kill it :( >> even with help -9 or -11 signal 8o probably because the proces is in system >> (kernel) mode... > > Sounds like a graphics engine lockup. Some process keeps holding the > lock waiting for the engine to become available, which it never does > because it's locked up. In the mean while X tries to grab the lock and > fails. So it keeps retrying, eating 100% CPU. Just a theory though.
but... why I can't kill X server? 9 signal is very powerfull, but not work > There have been reports about instabilities with r200-based cards. It > was introduced by some driver change last year. But AFAIK noone got > around to tracking it down. :-/ > >> >> what I can do? and how I can debug the problem? > > Try to find a version in CVS that works and then narrow it down to one > specific commit that introduced the problem. This will be time consuming > and not very exciting though. > What part of cvs tree I need to revert? (reverting full cvs tree will be probably trafic consuming...) and what I need to rebuild? rebuilding full xorg whith mesa dri driver and drm modules take about 1.5 hour on my computer. If I will do full build after every revertion it will be realy time consuming procedure... >> >> PS: I have more problems: If I exit from quake before X locked --- the >> mouse locked (or grabbed ??) I cant use it :( the mouse cursor placed in >> the left top corner of display. and size of display do not returned to >> normal rezolution... but keyboard work and I can cleanly shutdown X >> server... Why this can be? > > Probably quake2 or the 3D driver segfaults before the mouse grab and > graphics mode can be restored, possibly in r200DestroyContext. If it's > crashing in the graphics driver this should be fairly easy to track > down. Enable core dumps (ulimit -c unlimited) and analyze the core dump > with gdb to see where it crashed (gdb -c core `which quake2`). I set ulimit -c unlimited... but were is core dump? I cant find it :( nor for quake2 nor for quake3 (quake3 finished with signal 11) > (Caution, quake2 may be a shell script. You must point gdb the actual > executable instead.) In gdb use the "bt" command to see a call stack > trace. "up" and "down" jump between stack frames. Use "print" to inspect > variables. > > (This is just general advise. I don't have any r200 hardware myself > ATM.) > >> >> -- >> Dimitry > > HTH, > Felix > > -- > | Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fxk.de.vu | > | PGP Fingerprint: 6A3C 9566 5B30 DDED 73C3 B152 151C 5CC1 D888 E595 | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
