What to blame for ATI lockups after upgrade ?

[Jimmy Jazz]

Xavier Bestel a écrit :
> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:46 -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
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>>     
>>> On Dec 28, 2007 5:31 PM, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Dec 28, 2007 5:00 PM, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I used XOrg 1.4 with ATI driver 6.7.196 without any problems
>>>>>> for a month. I upgraded to XOrg 1.4.0.90 on december 13 and to
>>>>>> ATI 6.7.197 on the 21.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the 22, suddenly, while moving the mouse cursor, nothing
>>>>>> worked anymore. I could move the mouse, but it was like an "I"
>>>>>> and didn't do anything. The screen was apparently locked, as
>>>>>> the clock didn't get updated.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Try disabling the DRI or changing the AGPMode.  the newer ati driver
>>>>> switched back to AGP 1x mode by default, previous versions defaulted
>>>>> to whatever mode the bios set.  Both seem to have stability problems
>>>>> on different cards.
>>>>>
>>>>> Option "AGPMode" "4"
>>>>>           
>>>> I always had that option set in my xorg.conf (the card supports
>>>> 8x, but the motherboard only 4x), so the solution would be to
>>>> disable DRI and, if I need DRI (I don't for now), return to
>>>> 6.7.196 ?
>>>>         
>>> Well, it should act the same as previous versions with that option.
>>> If it doesn't then you'll probably want to file a bug and attach your
>>> xorg log and config along with any other relevant info.
>>>       
>> You're right. I tried without DRI and got the same after 6
>> days. Then, I went back to 6.7.196, but the same happened
>> today, after 3 days. So, it isn't the ATI driver.
>>     
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> FWIW I see lockups regularly too (it happens more often with compiz, but
> I remember it happened with metacity (non-composited)).
> As I've changed the whole PC, maybe it's the card failing.
> How could I test for that ?
>
>   
>> The strange thing is that it always happens while I move the 
>> mouse. And in the four until now, while the system was idle and 
>> I moved the mouse inside a window running screen.
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Are you using avant-window-navigator 0.2.1 as dock for gnome 2.20
with/without compiz fusion, python 2.5 and kernel 2.6.24 ?
I get the same symptom as you described until I definitely stopped using
awn. Sad sad sad :(
Xorg just freezes except the mouse. I still be able to run ssh but
restarting gdm slowdown hard the computer
It is like agony. Also, none of the processes are eating the cpu. If i'm
lucky init 6 will reboot the computer ... 1 hour later.

I'm not able to know which of the program is really buggy. It is not
necessarily awn, it just points out the issue.
Anyway without it, everything is working well.