Radeon mem map fix (#2): Need regression tests please

Erwin Rol mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Wed Dec 21 14:31:22 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 23:18 +0100, Simon Strandman wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt skrev:
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> It seems like the patch causes some regressions. I added them to my 
> unofficial gentoo xorg ebuild used by some people on the gentoo forums 
> and got these responses:
> 
> "emerged rc4, now I have garbage in place of mouse cursor graphics and 
> garbage in firefox 1.5
> and yes, I have radeon mobility..."
> 
> "No, I had the same problem with my Radeon 7000 which worked fine before 
> this latest bump. In addition to the cursor thing it actually 
> hard-locked the machine after a few mins of X use but worked fine in 
> console-login mode."
> 
> Disabling the patch fixed the issues in both cases. I told them to 
> recompile with debug and send in their logs. I don't have any radeons 
> myself to test with.
> 


I have seen some "garbage" too, but with the attach xorg.conf it works
fine. It does fix the hard hang problem I had on my;

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]

So it does something, maybe it is different from card to card ?

- Erwin

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