concerning X freeze recurring

[Rick Moseley]

Warren Togami wrote:
> Denis Leroy wrote:
>> David Nielsen wrote:
>>> fre, 13 10 2006 kl. 17:19 +0900, skrev Warren Togami:
>>>> Zuir DJ wrote:
>>>>> +1.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a Compaq EVO N800c, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, rawhide updated
>>>>> daily,  that I use about 10-12 hours a day.  It randomly freezes 
>>>>> about
>>>>> 4-5 times a day, no time patterns. I ran memtest86 without errors.
>>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> Thinkpad T41
>>>> Radeon 7500
>>>>
>>>> Complete system deadlocks began happening a few months ago in 
>>>> rawhide. Sometimes I can go days between lockups, sometimes it 
>>>> happens a few times a day.  It *ALWAYS* seems to happen while I am 
>>>> moving the mouse.
>>>
>>> And none of you thought to inform the developers untill days before
>>> release?
>>>
>>> If it's not in bugzilla, it doesn't exist.
>>
>> One of the problems is the large number of bugzilla entries on 
>> bugzilla.redhat.com (40 bugs just against xorg-x11-drv-ati), and 
>> upstream on bugs.freedesktop.org, and the relationships between the 
>> two lists is particularly hairy (definitely not a one-to-one 
>> relationship, more like many-to-many ;-), and maybe a few 
>> maybe-to-none :-( ). So sorting through the lists is not for the 
>> faint of heart...
>>
>
> This problem has been especially frustrating because...
>
> 1) It cannot be reproduced easily on demand.  Sometimes I can go days 
> or even weeks without it happening.
> 2) When the deadlock happens, no methods seem able to get any debug 
> information.
>
> How useful is this kind of bug report?  Not very. =(
>
> Has anyone else noticed this lockup with Radeon 7500 happen only when 
> moving the mouse?
>
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>
Yes, I started seeing the exact same problem you describe above on my 
T30/7500 Radeon.  Extremely random, sometimes days between lockups, 
sometimes a couple times a day.  Always occurs when moving the mouse.  
Have to do a power-off to reboot.

Rick