[Mesa-dev] Problems with radeon driver under KDE-4.7.2

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2011-12-06 at 19:33 +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: 
> Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2011, 17:57:00 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> > On Son, 2011-11-27 at 15:15 +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > > I just upgraded to KDE-4.7.2 and Linux-3.1 and mostly when using Firefox,
> > > I get issues like a stall screen, then a short blank screen and then it
> > > works some time until that happens again.
> > > 
> > > The kernel log then shows something like:
> > > WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c:267
> > > radeon_fence_wait+0x215/0x292()
> > > Hardware name: TravelMate 6592
> > > GPU lockup (waiting for 0x00158B0E last fence id 0x00158B0C)
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > So far, I think it's great that it can recover pretty fine most of the
> > > time
> > > 
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > I now upgraded to Linux-3.1.3 and looked at the KDE setting about the
> > > possible cause for this. New to me was the desktop effect setting about
> > > using "OpenGL-2-Shader". I deactivated it and its stable so far. Is this
> > > a know issue?
> > 
> > Not that I know of. Which version of which Mesa driver are you using?
> 
> I am using the Debian package 7.11-6.

If it still happens with 7.11.1-1 and current upstream Git 7.11 and
master branch, please file a bug at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mesa , component
Drivers/Gallium/R600.


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