ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7 locks up on X exit

[Boris Kochergin]

On 02/15/11 12:19, Ted Faber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:17:41AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Boris Kochergin wrote:
>>> Ahoy. Just thought I'd add what I've observed about the problem. Back when I
>>> first encountered it on a T42, in the 7.x or 8.x days, it would manifest
>>> itself reliably on X shutdown, but only when X was shut down for the second
>>> time since the machine had been booted (ditching the ATI driver in favor of
>>> VESA was a workaround). Nowadays, on T40s and T42s running -CURRENT, it is
>>> sporadic, but much more frequent when the laptops are running on battery as
>>> opposed to AC power. Whether or not HAL is present doesn't seem to affect it.
>> Maybe ACPI related.  I haven't seen the problem at all (ever, that I can
>> recall), but haven't been testing on battery.  Still using
>> xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 on this one, but the new 6.14.0 might make a
>> difference.
> FWIW, I'm using xf86-video-ati-6.13.2 as well.  I also have a slow
> resume problem, so ACPI problems are a possibility.  There's an ACPI
> error in the boot log of my initial message

Regarding just the error messages, they are also present on a T43p I 
have running 8.1, which does not exhibit the problem. Of course, it also 
has a different ATI video card. T43p (8.1):

ACPI Warning: 32/64X length mismatch in Gpe1Block: 0/32 
(20100331/tbfadt-625)
ACPI Warning: Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 
0x       0    102C/0x0 (20100331/tbfadt-655)
...
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, 7ff00000 (3) failed

T42 (CURRENT):

ACPI Warning: 32/64X length mismatch in Gpe1Block: 0/32 
(20101209/tbfadt-625)
ACPI Warning: Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 
0x000000000000102C/0x0 (20101209/tbfadt-655)
...
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, 5ff00000 (3) failed

-Boris