X600 driver instability?

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 10:49:34 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 01:47 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 01:20 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 15:09 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > > If its the kernel it must be something I've upstreamed.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'll start with the X driver itself. Hopefully it's just something
> > in there that's changed to cause my recent woes.
> 
> Of course, I say this and then shortly thereafter Xorg starts chewing
> 100% CPU and becomes completely wedged. So I login remotely and kill it,
> which then results in this nice little oops from the radeon driver. I've
> no time to look at the moment and I need to keep this box more or less
> running, but stability seems to have gone completely down the pan :(

The system seems to have been stable since I disabled effects on this
driver, which suggests there's a serious regression.

Jon.





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