Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:10:22 +0100 | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION] [BISECTED] Unable to use 3D with Radeon 2100 and UI freezes with Firefox | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote: > Hi once again, but things are not good with any kernel past the reworked IRQ > stuff. > > On 2011-07-25, at 05:08, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> 2011/7/24 Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>: >>> >>> After experiencing problems with many post 2.6.38 kernels with X when I >>> used >>> Firefox to see any webpage that used some of the new HTML5 features >>> (Firefox >>> freeze completely X and I could only log in remotely with SSH), I took >>> some >>> time to see where things went wrong and, to cut a long story short, I >>> bisected the kernel and I found that a commit of yours was the first one >>> that introduced a problem with my system: >> >> Can you attach /proc/interrupts as well please. > > It seems that the radeon thing is just one of the manifestations of the > problem. > > Today, I noticed another bad symptom, when I accidentally booted with kernel > 3.0 (I have many kernels in GRUB2): I printed a LaTeX document with only 2 > pages of pure text. My printer is an inkjet printer connected via USB to my > computer and it took about 6 minutes to print those 2 pages. The printer > head moved printing something, then it paused a bit, then it printed some > more, then it paused some more etc. > > I just rebooted with 2.6.38 and the very same document was printed in, like, > 15 seconds... > > So, is there anything that I could do to rectify this situation? I can give > you loads of dumps from here, as long as you tell me what would be useful. >
Well I was hoping Thomas would help debug this, but he's gone on holidays, I'll try and take a look next week.
but I've no real idea about the irq subsystem.
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