Bug 21945

Summary:	mach64 DRI driver hangs machine on X server startup
Product:	DRI	Reporter:	Christian <tempura.san>
Component:	DRM/other	Assignee:	Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	high	CC:	hadack
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Christian 2009-05-26 12:21:43 UTC

Hi all!

I am currently trying to enable DRI with my (aged) machine using the mach64 driver.

I have built the drm.ko and mach64.ko according to http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building (based on git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm).

The problem can be reproduced as:
1) load drm.ko and mach64.ko (will load fine)
2) restart X

Result: the computer hangs - completely. Caps lock and Scroll lock lights are blinking. Only a hard reset recovers the machine.

Without loading the modules the mach64 driver shipped with the distro will work fine (except DRI of course). Here is some excerpt from the Xorg.0.log:

...
(II) MACH64(0): [drm] SAREA 2200+1208: 3408
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[drm] failed to load kernel module "mach64"
(EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
(EE) MACH64(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit Failed
...

Here are some details on the system:

Machine: Compaq Armada M700, PIII 500MHz

GFX (according to lscpi):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Device b111
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
        Memory at 41000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at 40200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel modules: atyfb

Distro: Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)
Kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic

X.Org server details (from Xorg.0.log):
X.Org X Server 1.6.0
Release Date: 2009-2-25
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-23-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux aya 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 09 April 2009  02:10:02AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14 (buildd@rothera.buildd) 

If I can provide any more useful information or test some things please let me know!

Thanks in advance,
Yours,
Christian

Comment 1 hadack 2009-09-13 14:33:08 UTC

I have exactly the same problem, it seems to be introduced by this commit:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=957b10695b619d6ed2f1098b00502395d9a3c149
Move vblank_init to driver load time.

This is on Slackware 13.0 running a 2.6.29.6 kernel and xserver 1.6.3

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A20m/A21m
	Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
	Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
	Memory at f4200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
	Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
	Kernel modules: atyfb

Comment 2 Martin Peres 2019-10-14 13:20:04 UTC

Hi,

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To avoid migrating out of date bugs, I am now closing all the bugs that did not see any activity in the past year. If the issue is still happening, please create a new bug in the relevant project at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm (use misc by default).

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