On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 09:10, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:15:54AM -0400, Aron Trauring wrote: > > When X starts up, it goes into an infinite loop, spewing out the > > following error message in the log file endlessly, until / is filled up: > > > > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP reset -1020 > > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP start -1020 > > (EE) RADEON(0): RADEONCPGetBuffer: CP GetBuffer -1020 > > (EE) RADEON(0): GetBuffer timed out, resetting engine... > > Oh my. I'm willing to bet this is another CP microcode issue; some cards > are known to ship with bad firmware (IIRC), or exist in such a state > that they're useless with microcode.
The cards don't ship any microcode, and the DRM doesn't work without it. > This is all a mixture of IIRC and AIUI, and I'll try to test .dfsg when > I get home (dialup sucks), but yeah. It looks like we've crippled > radeon_drv. :( No, Herbert has crippled the kernel packages. Of course, the DDX drivers could deal better with this, at least the radeon driver does in DRI CVS. I could dig up a patch, but I'd prefer if those who insisted on crippling things did... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
