glxgears crash xorg on Asus EEE PC 900

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 10/1/08, Andrej Smagin <samspeed at mail.ru> wrote:
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>> On 10/1/08, Andrej Smagin <samspeed at mail.ru> wrote:
>> > Please help, about month can't run 3D on my EEE PC 900.
>> > If I run glxgears from xterm on my eeepc, xorg hang on some seconds and
>> > then
>> > crash with following error:
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>> > Ring at virtual 0x28800000 head 0x1e0 tail 0x2a70 count 2596
>> > Ring at virtual 0x28800000 head 0x1e0 tail 0x2a70 count 2596
>> > Ring end
>> > space: 120680 wanted 131064
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>> > FatalError re-entered, aborting
>> > lockup
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>> I have same problem on i945GM on completly another machine, and that
>> is related to Robert Noland pre-gem changes of drm/drm and drm/i915.
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>> You can build i915 and drm module before that change and DRI will work
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>> Just cvsup versions that works.
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> I rebuilt system by "make buildkernel" , what else need to run dri  ?

Well, just rebuilding kernel will not work...

First fetch versions of right drm codes (not one from current HEAD)
and just rebuild drm.ko and i915.ko module in your case.
There is no need to rebuild/reinstall whole kernel.

If you dont know how to fetch, and which versions to fetch just tell.