Radeon X700 Mobility: [mi] EQ overflowing ... server lockup

[dan]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:24:27 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:27 AM, dan <dan at entropy.homelinux.org> wrote:
>> Hi Alex. Thanks for the response.
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Daniel <dan at entropy.homelinux.org>
>> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:26 +1000, Daniel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all. I've been on the 'bleeding edge' ( git ) of mesa, xserver,
>>>>> xf86-video-ati & friends for the past year or so ( on Gentoo ). I've
>>> got
>>>>> a Turion ( AMD64 ) processor ( running in 64-bit mode ), and a Radeon
>>>>> X700 Mobility.
>>>>
>>>> <previous stuff snipped>
>>>>
>>>> I've figured out how to stop Ubuntu from booting into X, and now I've
>>>> got some more info.
>>>>
>>>> I can *only* start X with DRI disabled, via the line:
>>>>
>>>> Option "DRI" "0"
>>>
>>> What drm are you using?
>>
>> Um ... is this what you mean?
>> (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Found DRI library version 1.3.0 and kernel module
>> version 1.29.0
> 
> Are your drm kernel modules distro provided, build from git, or kernel
> provided?

Hi Alex. Thanks again for responding. At the moment, everything is
distro-provided ( Ubuntu-8.10 beta ) ... it's a fresh install from a
nightly build, plus I updated everything to 'current' via Ubuntu's
'update-manager' ( as prompted by a panel applet ).

Dan