problem with radeon and DRI enabled

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:54 +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> 
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 21:45 +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:58 +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >>>> I've got couple movies which lockup (almost) system in a second.
> >>>> if I disable DRI the problem disappear, 
> >>> What if you don't specify Option "AGPMode" instead, and possibly play
> >>> with the AGP settings in the BIOS setup? Or if you use Option "BusType"
> >>> "PCI"?
> >> Tried with "PCI" in xorg.conf - same result.
> > 
> > Did you verify in the log file that the option was recognized as
> > intended?
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected
> (**) RADEON(0): Forced into PCI mode
> 
> looks correct?

Yes. I suppose it's the same problem when you don't specify this option
nor "AGPMode"?

BTW, does the problem also occur without Option "DynamicClocks"?


> >>>> but then I can't use hw scaling.
> >>> Why not?
> >> If I disable DRI -vo xv doesn't work anymore.
> > 
> > Define "doesn't work". It should work regardless with your card.
> 
> 1) EXA is not enabled, DRI is disabled
> 
> VO: [xv] 720x304 => 720x304 Planar YV12
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 
> 
> 
> 2) EXA is not enabled, DRI is enabled
> 
> VO: [xv] 720x304 => 720x304 Planar YV12
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 
> 
> X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 0 0 

These are expected when running a compositing manager.


> 3) EXA is enabled, DRI is enabled
> 
> the card locks up, radeon is spinning in that routine.
> 
> 4) EXA is enabled, DRI is enabled, PCI forced
> 
> the card locks up
> 
> 5) EXA is enabled, DRI is disabled, PCI forced
> 
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...
> (EE) RADEON(0): Idle timed out, resetting engine...

AGP/PCI only matters when the DRI is enabled, so this could all be the
same lockup.


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