Re: Do you need x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd-devel? (Re: How about AMD Puma platform support?)

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:59:53 +0300
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:04:35PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:46:39PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> > > Interesting, I have the same (card/chip) and same problem:
> > >=20
> > > (--) PCI:*(2:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] re=
> > v 0, Mem _at_ 0xd0000000/27, 0xdfff0000/16, I/O _at_ 0xe800/8, BIOS _at_ 0xdffc0000/=
> > 17
> > > (--) PCI: (2:0:1) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE] rev 0, Mem _at_=
> >  0xdffe0000/16
> > >=20
> > > in my -STABLE box which is also plagued by these spurious freezes.
> > > They always happen when logging out or quitting the window manager.
> > > Yesterday the mouse pointer movd but very slowly.  The Xorg process
> > > using 100% on one CPU and unkillable.  In the past, it's locked up
> > > the machine entirely, but this time everything else was working.
> > > I still had to power cycle it to reboot though.
> > >=20
> > > I'll try to get a ktrace next time it happens.
> > 
> > This is quite similar to my problem. I expect your X server to spend time
> > in kernel. Please, use the procstat -k to get the kernel stack of the
> > process.
> 
> [brane] ~ # procstat -k 1593
>   PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK                       
>  1593 100062 Xorg             initial thread   mi_switch ast Xfast_syscall  
> [brane] ~ # procstat -k 1593
>   PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK                       
>  1593 100062 Xorg             initial thread   mi_switch turnstile_wait _mtx_lock_sleep giant_ioctl devfs_ioctl_f kern_ioctl ioctl syscall Xfast_syscall 
My backtrace is different.

Anyway, as I was told, we should wait for 1.5 server and updated Mesa/libGL
that could contain the fix.

Received on Wed Sep 17 2008 - 17:59:59 UTC

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