DRI Lockups

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Oct 16 17:00:22 PDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 00:43 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> morgoth6 at box43.pl wrote:
> > A long time ago I submited a bugreport to xorg bugzilla but without
> > any reply. I wonder is anyone can take a look at it ? It placed in
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4669. Also I reported it
> > to gentoo bugzilla with no help too.
> > 
> > Currently I use xorg-server cvs snap from 13.10.05 and latest cvs ati
> > drivers. Also I updated drm to recent cvs snap. Still the same
> > problem. Sometimes I can start X with DRI and sometimes it locks the
> > machine completly.
> Not sure if this is the problem you're facing, but last time I tried 
> forcing BusType to PCI with a AGP radeon I got a lockup too (on a 
> bog-standard x86 though, but I know it worked in the past). I guess 
> there's no agp gart driver for your chipset? And the INVALID IO 
> ALLOCATION doesn't look good to me neither (I think I've seen similar 
> reports about this). No idea what's up with that though.

The invalid IO report is harmless. The Pegasos needs to be forced to PCI
as it has a 'fake' AGP bus (an AGP connector on what is really only a
PCI bus).

I think there is a problem with PCI GART initialization...

Ben.




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