Bug 5997

Summary:	Xorg 7 completely freeezes Compal CL56 notebook
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Corrado Primier <ilbardo>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	high
Version:	7.0.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Corrado Primier 2006-02-22 22:25:14 UTC

This has always happened with all RCs, 6.8.2 was fine, didn't try 6.9 since I
don't have a build.

The server starts fine, but after some use it crashes the machine, which becomes
unresponsive to acpi requests and ssh, so it's completely gone. I noticed this
happens only with some applications opened, until now I identified firefox,
thunderbird and opera.

The machine is a Compal CL56, I tested the RAM and it's ok, and I never had
instability issues. I have a Radeon 9700 Mobile video card, and I tried to use
radeon, ati and vesa modules.

My distro is Arch Linux, updated to the last version, and I'm the only one one
with this problem, so I think it doesn't depend on the package. I also tried
reinstalling but it doesn't solve.

Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2006-02-22 22:37:46 UTC

Please try current xf86-video-ati CVS (plus possibly DRM CVS if you enable the
DRI); there have been fixes that solved similar problems for a lot of people.

Comment 2 Corrado Primier 2006-02-23 04:26:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please try current xf86-video-ati CVS (plus possibly DRM CVS if you enable the
> DRI); there have been fixes that solved similar problems for a lot of people.

I tried CVS builds as you said, but they didn't solve the problem. I managed to
find a workaround, though: the server doesn't crash if GLcore, glx and dri are
disabled in xorg.conf.

Comment 3 Michel Dänzer 2006-02-23 04:42:04 UTC

Sounds like a duplicate of bug 4847 or another 'R300 card hangs with DRI
enabled' bug then.

Comment 4 Corrado Primier 2006-02-23 05:09:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sounds like a duplicate of bug 4847 or another 'R300 card hangs with DRI
> enabled' bug then.

You're right, thanks. I did a quick search in the bugzilla but didn't come up
with anything useful...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4847 ***

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