Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:36:53 +0200 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: drm:radeon_cp_idle/reset error storm, console lockup (-rc4 git) |
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Hi,
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:21:59PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I'm throwing an uneducated guess that this log means that there's some locking-up drm inconsistency > > during server crash shutdown (subsystem shutdown order violation?) > > which is rendering my entire machine useless, including blocking tty access. > > Pretty much X dies, tries to get the GPU driver to go back to text > mode, this re-enters somewhere > holding the drm lock and the GPU dies. Pretty much sums up the whole > problem with graphics card > drivers on Linux, I can't say how we can fix that apart from if you > could gdb the X server and we > can fix the actual crash so we can avoid the issue.
"avoid the issue"... "in _this_ particular problem case", you wanted to say (picture Sisyphos :).
Ah, darn, I should have kept X running for some longer, or rather directly presented gdb stuff such as backtrace, local environment etc. I will handle this in a more flexible manner next time, however.
> The real fix for this sort of issues is called kernel modesetting.
...and I was almost ready to migrate to it already. ;) Now strongly pondering whether I should.
> Dave.
Thank you for the fast reply!
Andreas Mohr
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