hard lock w/ 6.8.1.901

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:09:28 -0500, Wil Reichert <wil.reichert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:18:00 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 11:16 -0500, Wil Reichert wrote:
> > > Unsure if this is an xorg issue or a Gentoo issue, but I snagged
> > > 6.8.1.901 from portage & built it on my laptop.  Compiled fine but
> > > glxgears locks the machine hard.  Configuration works fine under
> > > 6.8.1, all I did was change my xorg.conf to reflect the new module
> > > path.  Laptop is an IBM T40 with a Radeon M7.
> > >
> > > my device section:
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > >         Option          "AGPMode"               "4"
> > >         Option          "AGPFastWrite"          "True"
> > >         Option          "BackingStore"          "True"
> > >         Option          "DynamicClocks"         "True"
> > >         Identifier      "Radeon"
> > >         Driver          "ati"
> > >         VendorName      "ATI Technologies Inc"
> > >         BoardName       "Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
> > >         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Config problem er bug?
> >
> > Can you try without AGPFastWrite and without DynamicClocks ? (try both
> > separately) just in case ...
> >
> > Ben.
> 
> Nope, stil locks.  FWIW, glxinfo looks ok.

it maybe the same bug Reza has mentioned on IRC.  His 7500 locks up on
glxgears too, but other apps seem to be fine.  As I recall his seemed
to be related to the mouse.  it would run until you moved the mouse
then the computer would hang.

Alex

> 
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20040929 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
> 
> Wil