On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 02:11, Per Bjornsson wrote: > On 21 Feb 2003, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > > On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 01:20, Gary Greene wrote: > > > > > This is the reason that I am forced to either telinit 3 or "zap" X. This > > > same or similar issue has been reported on the DRI site by me and others > > > using the ATI Radeon (r100) chipset devices. > > > > The thing is, if zapping the server works, then it can't be something > > really bad like a lockup. Maybe the server is running fine, there's > > 'just' no display? > > I think that I might be seeing the same problem on a Sapphire Radeon 9000 > (detected as a RV250 If) - at least I am seeing similar behavior. The only > thing that triggers the lock for me is logging out while running a display > manager though, at least I haven't seen any other lockups lately. I > haven't had time to nail down if I can avoid it (e.g. by disabling DRI) - > that's why I haven't written about it earlier - but the computer _really_ > seems dead. Doesn't even answer a ping, and a hard reset is the only cure.
That would be a very thorough lockup. > I'll try to figure out how to make gdm restart instead of just resetting the > X server. AlwaysRestartServer=true in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, which I just noticed seems to be the default in recent versions though, but I can't reproduce the problem setting it to false either. > I've tried with 4.2.99.3 and 4.2.99.901 (actually CVS from couple of days > after that release), RedHat 8, gcc 3.2, and I have tried both RedHat > 2.4.18 kernels and Marcelo's 2.4.21-pre4. Are you using the DRM that comes with the kernel or built from CVS? Also, AGP settings could have an impact, as well as Mike's suggestion about other hardware. > I realize that this isn't really enough information to troubleshoot > sensibly, but I just wanted to let you know for now that this problem does > exist for others too and for later Radeons than the R100 as well. I didn't mean to say it was a rare or irrelevant problem (don't have any numbers), just that it doesn't happen everywhere either. -- 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
