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

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