Processed: Re: Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # See also bug 403871 > reassign 392915 linux-2.6 Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting Bug#394450: xserver-xorg: new install , Radeon 9200 dual head : default conf hangs ; solution Bug reassigned from p

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
# See also bug 403871 reassign 392915 linux-2.6 tags 392915 upstream fixed-upstream patch kthxbye On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 23:35 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:15:15AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Thanks. I think this is another integer overflow bug in the radeon D

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-10 Thread Andreas Johansson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:15:15AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Thanks. I think this is another integer overflow bug in the radeon DRM; > can you try the attached patch? Yes, this enables me to use a 32MB AGP aperture setting in the BIOS. Thanks for finding the cause of this problem! I used the

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-10 Thread Andreas Johansson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:45:57PM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > can you attach lspci -vv for both cases? Here they are, for reference. (The one with 32MB AGP aperture was taken from a system running a radeon.ko with Michel's patch to radeon_cp.c.) -- Andreas Johansson

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 22:54 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:18:24PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > I'm not sure how this could happen though; can you also post the full > > kernel output, or at least everything related to AGP and the DRI? > > Sure. Attached are the

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Airlie
> I'm not sure how this could happen though; can you also post the full > kernel output, or at least everything related to AGP and the DRI? Sure. Attached are the entries from /var/log/messages that I believe matches the two Xorg log files. Below are the results of grep:ing for agp and drm. ca

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Johansson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:18:24PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > I'm not sure how this could happen though; can you also post the full > kernel output, or at least everything related to AGP and the DRI? Sure. Attached are the entries from /var/log/messages that I believe matches the two Xorg log

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 16:27 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > Attached are two log files, one from a hanging session (the 32MB one) > and one from a working (the 128MB one). The diff mostly seems to be > due to different offsets. Hmm, it looks like the framebuffer and AGP areas end up overlappi

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 19:41 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > >Yes, if the agpgart driver can print a message about the aperture size > >being too small, it should also be able report failure such that the X > >server doesn't initialize the DRI. > > Ah, sorry, my wording when referring to fd.o bug

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-07 Thread Andreas Johansson
>Yes, if the agpgart driver can print a message about the aperture size >being too small, it should also be able report failure such that the X >server doesn't initialize the DRI. Ah, sorry, my wording when referring to fd.o bug 6111 was a bit unclear. On my system at least, agpgart doesn't compla

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 14:35 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > If there are unusable aperture size, ideally either the > agpgart driver or the X server should refuse them. (Unless it's > hardware and/or BIOS bugs.) Yes, if the agpgart driver can print a message about the aperture size being too

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-07 Thread Andreas Johansson
>I'm not sure this can be considered a bug in the radeon driver then, >unless maybe there's a way for it to detect the unusable AGP aperture >size. Prior to upgrading to etch this system ran sarge with X.org packages (6.9) from backports.org. Those were usable even with the aperture size set to 32

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:09 +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > The problem can be worked around by changing the AGP Aperture BIOS > setting. Changing this from 32MB to 256MB let me enable DRI. (As > suggested by https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6111#c30) I'm not sure this can be cons

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2007-01-06 Thread Andreas Johansson
I've also experienced this bug, so this is more of a confirmation of this problem on another system. Running xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.6.3-2 on my system with DRI enabled causes the X server to hang in some kind of loop. Keyboard and mouse are unusable, but the system is still up, and remote logins

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-11-19 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you suspect the hardware might be faulty, you could verify that with > another OS. FYI, I changed my radeon 8500 by a new 9250, and everything works nice. The strange thing is that I tried the 8500 in another computer (also debian sid) where I don't

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-11-05 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't. Writeback is a minor performance optimization, the lack of > which should not affect operation of the X server. > > If you suspect the hardware might be faulty, you could verify that with > another OS. I tried on ubuntu 6.06, and it's having

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-28 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > But it doesn't happen with version 6.6.2? >> >> I'm not sure exactly when it stops working... > > That would be very helpful to know though

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But it doesn't happen with version 6.6.2? > > I'm not sure exactly when it stops working... That would be very helpful to know though. Please try older versions, e.g. from http://snapsho

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-25 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > And this doesn't happen with version 6.6.2? If so, it would be great if >> > you could try isolating the upstream change that causes it with

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And this doesn't happen with version 6.6.2? If so, it would be great if > > you could try isolating the upstream change that causes it with > > git-bisect. > > I'm afraid that's a bit too

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-20 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And this doesn't happen with version 6.6.2? If so, it would be great if > you could try isolating the upstream change that causes it with > git-bisect. I'm afraid that's a bit too much as I don't know anything about git... > >> Load"dri" > > D

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 08:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati > Version: 1:6.6.3-1 > Severity: grave > > When starting xserver, screen is blank (black) and the systems is frozen > (SysRq not working). > 'vesa' drivers works but is really slow... > > 01:00.0 VGA co

Bug#392915: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes system when starting

2006-10-14 Thread Marc =?UTF-8?Q?Poulhi=C3=A8s
Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati Version: 1:6.6.3-1 Severity: grave When starting xserver, screen is blank (black) and the systems is frozen (SysRq not working). 'vesa' drivers works but is really slow... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] He