Re: 2.6.16-rc3: more regressions

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 12:46:33 EST


On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:35:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Subject : Xorg freezes 2.6.16-rc1
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/26/97
> > Submitter : Mauro Tassinari <mtassinari@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Status : unknown
>
> For this one, it would be interesting to see more info about the working
> setup. Notably
>
> - what modules are loaded by the time X is running
> - any differences in 'dmesg' output from 2.6.15 to 16-rc1 (PCI allocation
> issues should show up there)
>
> Of course, in a perfect world, we'd have serial or network console
> output.. X crashes are nastier than most, if only because the console is
> mostly gone.

I think this is the Radeon DRM bug I hit. (rc1 had a big drm update iirc)

Unless I patch with this..

--- linux-2.6.15.noarch/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h~ 2006-02-09 19:26:06.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15.noarch/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h 2006-02-09 19:26:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
{0x1002, 0x5969, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV100}, \
{0x1002, 0x596A, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
{0x1002, 0x596B, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
- {0x1002, 0x5b60, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV350}, \
{0x1002, 0x5c61, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280|CHIP_IS_MOBILITY}, \
{0x1002, 0x5c62, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
{0x1002, 0x5c63, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280|CHIP_IS_MOBILITY}, \

I get a machine check exception, triple fault, or NMI watchdog lockup.

Dave

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