5.2-CURRENT + Xorg hangs with Matrox G400 dual-head board

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 10:26, Chris Shenton wrote:
> I've got a Matrox G400 dual-head board in an AGP slot on a 5-year old
> machine.  It seemed to be working fine with an earlier 5.x built from
> CVS, using the XFree86 version of X11 for the past few months and it
> seemed fine.
> 
> Last week, I CVSupped and rebuilt the OS and kernel, and switched over
> to Xorg.  Since then, the system has locked up hard, several times a
> day, always associated with an X11 event -- like a window popping to
> the top.  The system hangs totally, no mouse, no CTL-ALT-F1, won't
> even respond to a ping. 
> 
> I have to reboot it.  Actually, I have to power-cycle it, otherwise
> when it boots and I say "startx" or "xdm", the screen will blank and
> it will hang again.  Power-cycling seems to clear this. 
> 
> In either case, there's nothing logged -- not that I've found.  After
> power-cycle, sometimes the BIOS menu pops up and says something about
> about the system hanging due to CPU or Memory speed problems and that
> it's set these to default conservative values, or something. But it
> doesn't help anyway: it still hangs minutes/hours later when some
> graphics event occurs.
> 
> I've had to replace my beloved dual head with an old PCI card I had
> lying around cuz I couldn't do anything.  It hasn't hung at all. Any
> suggestions on how I could track this down?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #2: Tue Jul 27 11:20:47 EDT 2004
>     root at PECTOPAH.shenton.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PECTOPAH
> WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (908.09-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x642  Stepping = 2
>   Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA
> T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
>   AMD Features=0xc0440000<RSVD,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
> real memory  = 268353536 (255 MB)
> avail memory = 252944384 (241 MB)
> 
> agp0: <VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133A) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe4000000-0xe7ffffff
>  at device 0.0 on pci0

Did you have the DRI enabled, and does disabling the DRI help?  If so,
I'd be interested in seeing your Xorg.0.log as well.

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Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
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