On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 05:37, Gary Greene wrote: > > On Thursday 20 Feb 2003 8:11 pm, Per Bjornsson wrote: > > On 21 Feb 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 01:20, Gary Greene wrote: > > > > > > > > It (my system) hangs whenever I try to logout with the dm. > > > > > > So have you tried setting your dm up to restart the server on logout? > > > They only reset it by default. > > > > > > > This is the reason that I am forced to either telinit 3 or "zap" X. > > > > This same or similar issue has been reported on the DRI site by me and > > > > others using the ATI Radeon (r100) chipset devices. > > > > > > The thing is, if zapping the server works, then it can't be something > > > really bad like a lockup. Maybe the server is running fine, there's > > > 'just' no display? > > > > I think that I might be seeing the same problem on a Sapphire Radeon 9000 > > (detected as a RV250 If) - at least I am seeing similar behavior. The only > > thing that triggers the lock for me is logging out while running a display > > manager though, at least I haven't seen any other lockups lately. I > > haven't had time to nail down if I can avoid it (e.g. by disabling DRI) - > > that's why I haven't written about it earlier - but the computer _really_ > > seems dead. Doesn't even answer a ping, and a hard reset is the only cure.
[...] > - From what I found, the system is effectively dead as well. The freeze seems to > lock the I/O subsystem of the kernel. Thus, killing the network, mouse, and > keyboard. This isn't consistent with your reportedly being able to zap the server and start another one afterwards though. > I think that it is creating a race condition where the system is > both shutting down and starting up the card at the same time, effectively > grabbing at the card at the same time. Something along those lines possibly. Unfortunately, such problems are very hard to debug, especially when you can't reproduce them... > Just a thought, would running my vc's in framebuffer mode cause a conflict > here? Shouldn't, but it's something else to try I guess. If it's radeonfb, playing with Option "UseFBDev" is another option. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
