[Linux-fbdev-devel] Radeon X300, radeonfb, dual head

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 23:20 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 17:02 schrieb Hans-Jürgen Koch:
> > Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 15:45 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:09 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 1.) I compiled radeonfb statically into my kernel and booted with
> > > > video=radeonfb:1280x1024-32 at 60. This works fine, the framebuffer
> > > > console works as expected. But the X server doesn't come up
> > > > properly. Xorg.0.log ends like this:
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > (**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(2)
> > > > (**) RADEON(0): FIFO timed out: 2 entries, stat=0x80026102
> > > > (EE) RADEON(0): FIFO timed out, resetting engine...
> > > 
> > > Please file a bug for this at http://bugs.freedesktop.org if it hasn't
> > > been reported yet. 
> > 
> > I'll do that, but want to experiment a little bit more first.
> 
> I found that compiling radeonfb into the kernel never works. X server
> is hanging at 100% CPU, almost completely blocking the system. Even
> a ssh login becomes so slow (about 30 seconds to respond to a key press)
> that it is practically useless.
> 
> Should I also report this as a bug against radeonfb ?

We should rule out an X driver or DRM bug first, so we need to see the
full X log file for this case.


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