Radeon X700 Mobility: [mi] EQ overflowing ... server lockup

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:27 AM, dan <dan at entropy.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex. Thanks for the response.
>
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0400, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Daniel <dan at entropy.homelinux.org>
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:26 +1000, Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all. I've been on the 'bleeding edge' ( git ) of mesa, xserver,
>>>> xf86-video-ati & friends for the past year or so ( on Gentoo ). I've
>> got
>>>> a Turion ( AMD64 ) processor ( running in 64-bit mode ), and a Radeon
>>>> X700 Mobility.
>>>
>>> <previous stuff snipped>
>>>
>>> I've figured out how to stop Ubuntu from booting into X, and now I've
>>> got some more info.
>>>
>>> I can *only* start X with DRI disabled, via the line:
>>>
>>> Option "DRI" "0"
>>
>> What drm are you using?
>
> Um ... is this what you mean?
> (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Found DRI library version 1.3.0 and kernel module
> version 1.29.0

Are your drm kernel modules distro provided, build from git, or kernel provided?

Alex