Bug#457233: xserver-xorg-video-ati: freezes system after a few minutes with comiz on rv370

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 10:02 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:17 +0100, Michel Dnzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:09 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:53 +0100, Michel Dnzer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:18 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 8x
> > > > 
> > > > Was the previous version (1:6.7.196-2?) using this rate as well? Does
> > > > Option "AGPMode" "4" help with the current version?
> > > 
> > > The only available versions are 1:6.7.192-3 and 1:6.6.193-3, and I can't
> > > remember what 1:6.7.196-2 was setting as AGP mode.
> > > Do you want me to try one of them ?
> > 
> > Do you know about http://snapshot.debian.net/ ?
> 
> I keep being told about it, but I must have a bird's memory ...
> 
> With 6.7.196-2 I see no interesting changes in the log, except maybe for
> that:
> -(II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 16
> +(II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 17
> 
> I'll try forcing AGPmode when I get back home.

Well, if 6.7.196-2 is still more stable, the difference isn't related to
AGPMode. In that case, it would be great if you could try isolating the
change that made things worse for you using git-bisect. You can start
the process in a checked out Git tree with

git-bisect good 5022d006
git-bisect bad ce4fa1ce


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