[rhn-users] drm: i830_wait_ring lockup error

[Lars Cedar]

Found the answer at last, and I share it here so that it may help others, 
though it's embarrassing to not have figured it out sooner (just to busy to 
have the epiphany).

Turns out that "[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131056 wanted 13106" 
means just what it says. Need space! I did not realize I had run out of 
space on my volume.

After booting from my RH9 disk one and selecting repair, I was able to 
navigate around and remove some unneeded files. When I rebooted, I was back 
in business.

I hope this helps others. Hopefully later versions of RH will warn a user 
that space is low before shutting down, giving one the opportunity to fix 
the problem before it occurs.

Cheers,
Lars

At 06:37 AM 9/12/2004, Lars Cedar wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I and a few others, based on web searches, have encountered a "drm 
>i830_wait_ring  lockup error" on boot-up. So far, no answers to this 
>problem have shown up. So, here goes another attempt at asking if  the 
>problem has been encountered and solved in any way. See details of the 
>error below.
>
>I'm running RedHat 9 on a dual boot Celeron laptop. I'm not aware of any 
>configuration changes I might have made to cause this to happen.
>
>The boot  process will appear to be going normally.
>
>The "login:" prompt appears. Rather than being followed by the gui coming 
>up, the screen goes blank. After a few seconds, the following error appears:
>
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131056 wanted 131064
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131048 wanted 131064
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
>
>The screen goes black again. After a few seconds, the above lines are 
>reprinted on the screen, and a couple more appear:
>
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131040wanted 131064
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131032 wanted 131064
>[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
>
>etc.
>
>The lowest number to show up is 131016. After that, the screen goes black 
>and seems to stay that way. I have to do hard boot.
>
>At one point, I could log in between screen blankings and do some basic 
>console stuff, but I could not log into a shell from another system on my 
>network, as I can on my Redhat 8 system which has it's own video/system 
>bios problems with a KVM switch).
>
>I had been doing regular updates to this system until around September of 
>03. After that I was off the Internet, and lost my connection to RedHat 
>support. I'd hate to have to reinstall from my boot CD's.
>I did go to rescue mode once, but I have no idea what files to fix or replace.
>
>Please help!  ;-)
>
>Lars
>
>
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