Bug 34137

Summary: Kernel null pointer dereference with 2.6.38_rc4, pageflip, Radeon 6310, KDE
Product: DRI Reporter: Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh>
Component: DRM/RadeonAssignee: Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-02-10 07:47:03 UTC
Created attachment 43206 [details]
dmesg with BUG and call trace

Using kernel 2.6.38_rc4, xf86-video-ati 6.14.0, Radeon 6310 (Zacate), KDE 4.4

When starting KDE the graphics will freeze before the desktop appears, possibly when kwin attempts to enable desktop effects. In dmesg, the following appears along with a call trace containing radeon_crtc_page_flip:

 [ 1297.514583] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)

Afterwards, the system must be rebooted to get the graphics back. Setting Option "EnablePageFlip" "false" in xorg.conf makes the problem go away.
Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-03-11 04:26:36 UTC
Yes, thank you. With the patch the problem is fixed.

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