radeon regression after xorg update
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 10 14:34:16 UTC 2013
on 09/07/2013 21:10 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>
> For a number of reasons I've been postponing the big Xorg upgrade on my radeon
> machine, but I finally did it today.
>
> My configuration:
> Hardware: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, which is IGP from 780G/RS780 chipset.
> Software:
> xorg-server-1.12.4_1,1
> xf86-video-ati-6.14.6
Downgrading xf86-video-ati to 6.14.4 seems to fix the problem.
I haven't tried 6.14.5 yet and 6.14.3 does not appear to work with the current
xorg-server.
Probably this is a good candidate for an upstream bug report.
> I use the official ports tree (as opposed to xorg-dev) and I have
> WITH_NEW_XORG=yes in make.conf.
>
> One peculiarity of my setup is that I run two X servers. And the regression is
> exactly about that.
> Until the upgrade everything worked just fine. But now if I do a direct
> VT-switch from one X-owned terminal to the other, then I get a significant
> chance of my system hanging.
>
> I see the following things when that happens.
> In Xorg.log I sometimes get (repeated many times):
> (EE) RADEON(0): Timeout trying to update memory controller settings !
> (EE) RADEON(0): You will probably crash now ...
> In system log I sometimes see (repeated many times):
> kernel: info: [drm] wait idle failed status : 0xA0003030 0x00000003
> Sometimes the system just resets without leaving any clues.
>
> Here is another interesting point. If first I do a VT-switch to a non-graphic
> (console) terminal and then to the other X terminal, there the problem never
> happens.
>
> I wonder what could be causing this.
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Andriy Gapon
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