Bug 26715

Summary:	random freeze in ioquake3 like games
Product:	Mesa	Reporter:	Donald Jankins <dj.jankins>
Component:	Drivers/DRI/r300	Assignee:	Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	xorg log when crashed xorg config file

Description Donald Jankins 2010-02-23 04:39:02 UTC

Games on ioquake3 engine (OpenArena, Quake 3 Arena) randomly freezing X server. After that, X does not respond to any keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Alt-Bksp), the only way is Alt-SysRq-K (Alt-SysRq-R also works, but I cannot switch consoles, the screen freezed with game). Console is unusable after that, and I do reboot with ctrl-alt-delete. While rebooting, artifacts on top of screen can be visible.
I cannot catch bug myself, but seeing it periodically once per 3-5 days (with regular system reboots), so can't reproduce it manually.

I'm using Mesa-git, xf-video-ati-6.12.4, libdrm-2.4.18 and kernel 2.6.32 without KMS enabled.
System: AMD Athlon 5200 with ATI Radeon X1600 chipset (r300)

Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2010-02-23 07:42:46 UTC

Sounds like a 3D bug.  Can you attach your xorg log and config?

Comment 2 Donald Jankins 2010-02-23 23:38:25 UTC

Created attachment 33519 [details]
xorg log when crashed

Comment 3 Donald Jankins 2010-02-23 23:40:40 UTC

Created attachment 33520 [details]
xorg config file

Here it is.

Comment 4 Donald Jankins 2010-03-04 02:39:22 UTC

Perhaps I figured out when it happens.
When I run VirtualBox virtual machine with accelerated 3D graphics enabled and shutdown it normally (at least 3-4 times), the bug occurs. It happens when I run any game (not only quake3, I tried doomsday engine for example). I will disable any 3D acceleration and try again. Maybe it helps me as a workaround.

Comment 5 Eemil Lagerspetz 2010-04-23 11:24:22 UTC

This is on an eee pc 901, i915, and also with latest git drivers from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/ .
I downloaded the ubuntu xorg-edgers intel drivers from today (2010-04-23) and proceeded to start compiz and run the phoronix-test-suite benchmark openarena. It crashes somewhere in the first test run. The crash renders the system completely unresponsive. I have to resort to pressing the power button since ctrl-alt-del or the ctrl-alt-sysreq-SEKUB sequences do nothing.

Comment 6 Eemil Lagerspetz 2010-04-23 12:04:22 UTC

> proceeded to start compiz .
Correction no compiz. Compiz messes up openarena's refresh rate for me and results in a black screen which is responsive (ctrl-alt-F1) until the random freeze.

Comment 7 Andreas Boll 2014-07-07 16:43:30 UTC

The classic r300 driver has been abandoned long ago.
It was replaced by the Gallium driver r300g.

If you have issues with r300g please file a new bug report with component Drivers/Gallium/r300

Thanks.

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