Repeatable X lockups

[Jimmie James]

On Fri, 15 May 2009 08:53:24 -0500 Robert Noland said:

>On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:37 -0400, Albert Vest wrote:
>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> > On 5/13/09, Jimmie James <jimmiejaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> >> One thing to note, I dont switch to console while DRI is active
> >> otherwise panic could happen(last time when I tested it with 915GM).
>>=20
>> I've been experiencing something similar, not a panic but, whenever I=20
>> switch to console (ctrl-f1?) and come back to X (ctrl-f9), my session=20
>> goes away and a new XDM screen presents itself for a fresh login.

>This sounds like the xserver is crashing.

This is a crash of the xserver, usually a sig.6 in /var/log/messages is
pid 65663 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6,
(WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1
(II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc5819000 at 0x2884f000
(II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.

leaving the console looking like 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jimmiejaz/xcrash.jpg .
While you can ssh in, restart X, the console stays corrupted like that.
Memory heap 0x2867e260:
   Offset:0002a000, Size:00100000, F.
Free list:
  FREE Offset:0002a000, Size:00100000, F.
End of memory blocks

(WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1
(II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc5819000 at 0x2884f000
(II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=291042+0+archive/2009/freebsd-x11/20090503.freebsd-x11


>> Might it have to do with my hardware?  I started using one of those=20
>> "wide screen" displays (1440 x 900), about the same time my updates=20
>> started showing "7.2-PRERELEASE" as version number, and it still happens=20
>> with "7.2-STABLE".  All ports current (except OOO 3.0.0).
>=20
>> Still using the same Radeon 9100 "IGP" forced to PCI mode, if that might=20
>> matter.

>Does it detect as AGP natively?
display bits from dmesg:
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x6800-0x6807 mem
0xcfd80000-0xcfdfffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xcfe80000-0xcfebffff at
device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: <Intel 82915G (915G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
drm0: <Intel i915G> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci1: <VGA-compatible display> mem 0xcfe00000-0xcfe7ffff at device
2.1 on pci0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
drm0: <Intel i915G> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
info: [drm] AGP at 0xd0000000 256MB
info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730
drm0: [ITHREAD]
agp0: <Intel 82915G (915G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0
agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 256M
info: [drm] AGP at 0xd0000000 256MB


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