Radeon 9200 hangs: How to debug?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 13:08 -0500, Randall Nortman wrote:
> 
> When it happens, I can ssh in from another system.  When I do so, I
> always find that the X process is consuming 100% of CPU time.  I
> usually cannot kill it, not even with 'kill -9'.  (Once, I was able to
> kill it and start a new X server, but most of the time this does not
> work.)

This usually means the graphics chip is wedged.


> Should I perhaps start turning off features until the system becomes
> stable?  You can see in the log that I have quite a few
> modules/extensions loaded, including dbe, XVideo, glx, dri, drm,
> RENDER, COMPOSITE, etc.

It's likely related to the DRI, possibly RENDER and/or COMPOSITE.


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