Re: Figured out my flash-plugin problem
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Figured out my flash-plugin problem: If you are using flash-plugin higher than 11.1.102.63 and you are getting reversed colors and artifacts in Firefox, open a flash video right click in the video while it is playing, go to "settings", "Display" (tab), unclick "Enable hardware acceleration" Which graphics card (and driver) do you have ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Re: Crash in tg3 driver on SL6.3 when interface goes down
On 29/12/12 21:21, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote: Hi Phil Perry! On 2012.12.27 at 13:59:49 +, Phil Perry wrote next: Elrepo has an updated kmod package for the tg3 driver you could try. With elrepo installed; yum install kmod-tg3 and reboot. If it doesn't fix the issue, try giving the elrepo folks a ping to see if there is a more recent version you could try that might fix the issue. Thanks for advice! I completely missed the fact that version is newer because I saw same 3.122 number; actually in-kernel is version 3.122 and elrepo has 3.122n, and this "n" makes a lot of difference. I tried it, according to changelog it includes fix --- tg3: Fix tg3_get_stats64 for 5700 / 5701 devs tg3_get_stats64() takes tp->lock when dealing with non-serdes bcm5700 and bcm5701 devices. However, functions that call tg3_halt() have already acquired tp->lock. When tg3_get_stats64() is called in tg3_halt(), deadlock will occur. --- which exactly resolves my problem. This fix is dated Feb 28, sad that Red Hat maintainers have missed it in their version :( But at least I have the solution now. Glad it fixed your issue. That's exactly why elrepo exists - to roll out updates quicker than Red Hat is able to do, for understandable reasons. Hopefully Red Hat will get the driver updated in the next update release. In the meantime, perhaps you could file a bug report upstream with Red Hat and mention the issue is fixed in the latest driver version.
Re: Crash in tg3 driver on SL6.3 when interface goes down
Hi Phil Perry! On 2012.12.27 at 13:59:49 +, Phil Perry wrote next: > > Elrepo has an updated kmod package for the tg3 driver you could try. > > With elrepo installed; > > yum install kmod-tg3 > > and reboot. > > If it doesn't fix the issue, try giving the elrepo folks a ping to > see if there is a more recent version you could try that might fix > the issue. Thanks for advice! I completely missed the fact that version is newer because I saw same 3.122 number; actually in-kernel is version 3.122 and elrepo has 3.122n, and this "n" makes a lot of difference. I tried it, according to changelog it includes fix --- tg3: Fix tg3_get_stats64 for 5700 / 5701 devs tg3_get_stats64() takes tp->lock when dealing with non-serdes bcm5700 and bcm5701 devices. However, functions that call tg3_halt() have already acquired tp->lock. When tg3_get_stats64() is called in tg3_halt(), deadlock will occur. --- which exactly resolves my problem. This fix is dated Feb 28, sad that Red Hat maintainers have missed it in their version :( But at least I have the solution now. -- Vladimir
