CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

[Craig Boston]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:14:17AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> >One thing this patch definitely did do though, is break the nvidia
> >driver pretty badly.  Couldn't keep the X server running for more than a
> >minute before it froze solid.  Lots of Xid: blah blah blah messages.
> >Yes I remembered to rebuild the kernel module ;)
> 
> My patch shouldn't have a single effect on nvidia.  It just gets the USB 
> out of the way of other drivers.  Weird.  But what does 'blah blah' 
> translate into?

It didn't make any sense to me either after looking at the patch...  I'm
100% sure that was the only change between boots, and it started working
again after I reverted the sys/dev/usb directory and rebuilt. (svk is
great for juggling patch sets around)

That's one of the reasons I briefly suspected the nvidia driver causing
problems somewhere, so I removed that from the mix just to be sure.

'blah blah' translates into numbers that mean nothing to me, but they
may be useful to someone:

Sep 29 16:57:09 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000ae5
Sep 29 16:57:09 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000ae4
Sep 29 16:57:11 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000000
Sep 29 16:57:17 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000ae6
Sep 29 16:57:17 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000ae5
Sep 29 16:57:19 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
Sep 29 16:57:25 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000ae7
Sep 29 16:57:25 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000ae6
Sep 29 16:57:27 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
Sep 29 16:57:33 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000ae8
Sep 29 16:57:33 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000ae7
Sep 29 16:57:35 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
Sep 29 16:57:41 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000ae9
Sep 29 16:57:41 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000ae8
Sep 29 16:57:43 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
Sep 29 16:57:49 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00000aea
Sep 29 16:58:19 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000000
Sep 29 16:58:27 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000001e
Sep 29 16:58:51 last message repeated 3 times
Sep 29 16:58:51 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 7, Ch 00000001 M00000000 D bfef0007 intr 00010000