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

[Xavier Bestel]

On ven, 2007-12-21 at 10:09 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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

Hi,

I'm back from holidays and wanted to try that. However:
[xav at bip:~/git/Xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati]$ git-bisect bad ce4fa1ce
fatal: Needed a single revision

Do I have another mean to specify that commit ?

(BTW, I installed 1:6.7.197-1 from unstable and it's stable).

Thanks,
	Xav