> reopen 603469 > submitter 603469 ! > retitle 603469 radeon: atombios stuck executing F6D8 (screen randomly > goes black with no way to get it back) quit > > Hi again, > > lauren wrote: > > > no problem and thanks for following up > > On second thought, I'm reopening this as an excuse to consider drm > patches for backporting. I've set myself as submitter so hopefully > you won't get any spam from it after this message. > > While I have your attention, could you help with one puzzle? The X > log from the initial report contains: > > | Current Operating System: Linux BUZZ 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 > 22:47:19 UTC 2010 i686 > > Which sounds like 2.6.32-27. But dmesg contains: > > | [ 7.120450] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for > 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 | [ 949.420558] [drm:atom_op_jump] *ERROR* > atombios stuck in loop for more than 1sec aborting | [ 949.420570] > [drm:atom_execute_table_locked] *ERROR* atombios stuck executing F6D8 > (len 487, WS 0, PS 4) @ 0xF719 > > This doesn't look like the standard squeeze kernel, since squeeze > doesn't contain v2.6.34-rc4~12^2~50^2~17 (drm/radeon/kms: catch > atombios infinite loop and break out of it, 2010-03-02). It can't be > a mainline kernel, since the just-mentioned infinite loop checker was > not introduced until after a radeon ABI bump (2.1.0). What did I > miss? > > Puzzled, > Jonathan > > (That mystery aside, here are some bugfix patches to consider > backporting. > > - v2.6.34-rc4~12^2~50^2~17 (drm/radeon/kms: catch atombios infinite > loop and break out of it, 2010-03-02) > > - v2.6.36-rc3~9^2~79^2~24 (drm/radeon/kms/atom: bump atom loop > timeout from 1 sec to 5 secs, 2010-06-30) > > - v2.6.37-rc8~26^2~2 (drm/radeon/kms: reorder display resume to avoid > problems, 2010-12-20): "This fixes the infamous atombios timeouts > on resume.")
jonathan i always ran debian testing and so have had whatever was in those repos ... i use my machines for dev so try to keep away from anything too bleeding edge ... i doubt i would have added sid or experimental repos for fear of breaking things hth lauren
