On Mit, 2003-02-05 at 21:09, Tero Laitinen wrote: > > I'm using cvs version of XFree. I use radeon.o supplied with XFree. My kernel > is 2.4.20 and it has no direct rendering compiled in. > > The problem is: a total lockup occurs when: > > 1) starting X, shutting down and starting X again. > 2) starting X and switching to text terminal (eg. Ctrl-Atrl-F1) and back to X. > > In this case, a total lockup means: > 1) black screen > 2) no response to mouse and keyboard input > 3) no response to ping from my laptop. > -> hard reboot > > Homewer, it does not crash when direct rendering is not enabled. Thus, kernel > module > /xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/radeon.o > seems to be causing all the problems. I install it using insmod and it > reports: "[drm] AGP 0.99 aperture @ 0xc00000000 256MB > [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0" > > A complete XFree86's log can be found at > http://tlaitinen.kompassi.com/XFree86log.html
There is a fix in the 4.2.99.901 DRM which may help stability, but if it doesn't, try a lower AGP transfer rate. > Another interesting thing is > "(II) RADEON(0): [drm] failure adding irq handler, there is a device already > using that irq > [drm] falling back to irq-free operation" > > Direct rendering fails to assign IRQ for device and DRI isn't then fast at > all.. This shouldn't hurt performance, the IRQ is primarily used to reduce CPU usage. Why do you think it's slow? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
