Bug 16768

Summary: radeon driver completely freezes Fedora 9 with Radeon HD 2400 Pro
Product: xorg Reporter: Don Seiler <don>
Component: Driver/RadeonAssignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers <xorg-driver-ati>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Flags
Xorg.0.log from the crash, which doesn't seem to say anything
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complete output from lspci -vvv
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lspci -vvv output from this Toshiba laptop
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Xorg log that exhibits the problem being logged none

Description Don Seiler 2008-07-17 21:06:13 UTC
Created attachment 17738 [details]
Xorg.0.log from the crash, which doesn't seem to say anything

I have a new Dell Optiplex 755 with an ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro (PCIE not AGP).  However I can only use it with the vesa driver.  I even had to reboot in single mode and use vesa just to finish the firstboot setup for Fedora.

Whenever I try to use radeon (or radeonhd), the system locks up tight and I have to do a hard power cycle.  I can't ping or ssh to it at all.

Some notes FYI:

# uname -srvpi
Linux 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 20:23:46 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64

# lspci | grep Radeon
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]

# rpm -qa | grep xorg | grep ati
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-18.fc9.da.x86_64
^--- This was a package built for me by airlied in #radeon on freenode.  It doesn't work either.

# rpm -qa | grep xorg | grep radeonhd
xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.2.1-1.1.20080429git.fc9.x86_64

Basically it's a stock Fedora 9 install with the livna repository enabled.  Everything is up-to-date via yum.

Let me know what else I can provide to assist you.  I miss Enemy Territory :`(
Comment 1 Don Seiler 2008-07-18 11:22:55 UTC
D'oh!  Looks like someone filed this before at the RedHat bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450432

The feeling there is that having 4gb RAM (which I do) plays a part.
Comment 2 Dave Airlie 2008-08-21 16:02:09 UTC
can we get lspci -vvv from this system all of it for all cards attached?

and please make sure you are using latest Fedora and/or -git ati driver so we are all at the same starting point.
Comment 3 Don Seiler 2008-08-22 07:08:15 UTC
Created attachment 18466 [details]
complete output from lspci -vvv

Attaching the complete output from lspci -vvv on the affected system.

My fedora 9 system is completely up-to-date via yum, with the livna repo enabled.
Comment 4 Gian Paolo Mureddu 2008-09-29 21:50:29 UTC
I can confirm a problem with xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-19 included in Fedora (from the official repository) locking up my system. In my case this is a Toshiba Satellite A215 laptop (full hardware profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_f3889c13-ed5b-44b9-a6ab-72db21a4aaa5, will attach lspci -vvv as well, though).

The issues I've been experiencing are a bit different, as I explained in my bug report to the Fedora Bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462157#c4), this is usually triggered when I am viewing images (it doesn't actually matter the program). When this condition happens, I'm able to SSH into the computer, but everything is very, very slow! There I don't seem to be able to see anything in the system log, dmesg or top, other than Xorg eating away quite a lot of CPU, as do other processes (hald-addon-storage and top itself). At one point when this problem happened, I was able to see the Xorg.0.log for that particular session and saw the file flooded with the messages:

[mi] mieqEneque: out-of-order valuator event: dropping.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probaly stuck in an infinite loop.


System:

Fedora 9 x86_64 fully updated.

Kernel: 2.6.26.3-29.fc9 (from Fedora updates)

driver: xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-19 (from Fedora updates)

However I have also tried with the very same results with GIT drivers from 29 august 2008, will try to use latest git (though for some reason I suspect there won't be much change) and with latest release 6.9.0 drivers with the same results.

XServer: 1.5.2 (from Fedora updates)
Comment 5 Gian Paolo Mureddu 2008-09-29 21:52:12 UTC
Created attachment 19294 [details]
lspci -vvv output from this Toshiba laptop
Comment 6 Gian Paolo Mureddu 2008-09-29 21:54:06 UTC
Created attachment 19295 [details]
Xorg log that exhibits the problem being logged
Comment 7 Alex Deucher 2009-10-21 13:48:50 UTC
6.8.0 is ancient.  Can you try 6.12.4 (current stable release) or git master?
Comment 8 Alex Deucher 2010-10-19 16:37:08 UTC
closing due to lack of feedback.

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