On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 22:10, Charl P. Botha wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:55:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Excuse the interruption, but I have been having a problem with an IBM > > T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (LCD) losing sync after the display is > > either turned off by either APM or via a Fn-F3. The failure is > > intermittent, but frequent. > > > > Is is remotely possible that this bus mastering issue could also be > > causing my problem? If so, I'll look at trying your patch. This might > > be slightly complicated since I am running FreeBSD, not Linux, but > > probably not. > > It doesn't _sound_ related. The symptoms of loss of bus-mastering with the > radeon drivers is that X sits at 100% CPU waiting for a card to go idle that > never does...
Yes. Ironically, it never goes idle because it can never get busy in the first place... > the machine is reachable by network, but the console is dead. I wonder what would happen if one enabled bus mastering when it's 'locked up', but that's purely academic. :) -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
