Bug 8932

Summary:	ATI Radeon M6 LY Crashes like Crazy when Using radeon (or ati) Driver
Product:	DRI	Reporter:	Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	high	CC:	alexdeucher
Version:	DRI git
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jacob Godserv 2006-11-07 05:42:16 UTC

My ATI Readon M6 LY has never been stable, and it isn't any more stable  
now with Edgy, either. I've provided snapshots of what the screens look like, 
in hopes that they give you information. I've listed below the four different 
crashes that can occur. I've labeled them as Crash1, Crash2, Crash3, etc. Sorry 
about the fuzziness of some of them. I turned off flash so the screens wouldn't 
be darkened.


   * Crash #1: Screen goes all TV-like. The computer screen is all screwey, but 
the rest of the computer is still responsive. In other words, I can still goto 
Ctrl+Alt+F1, and restart GDM. In this particular crash shown (which looks 
slightly different then what it normally looks like) I could go to Ctrl+Alt+F1, 
and everything would clear up (Crash1-2). Normally things would still be all TV-
scrolly like. I was able to go back to Gnome (Crash1-3).
 
   * Crash #2: Screen fades into a whitish negative kind of look. Computer 
kernel seems to still be operating, since I can execute the emergency 
Alt+SysRq+S (sync disks), Alt+SysRq+U (unmount, remount), Alt+SysRq+B (reboot) 
commands. This particular screenshot was taken during BZFlag. I found that if I 
didn't let the map list fully load, the computer would crash.
 
   * Crash #3: Screen just plain freezes. As I mentioned before, this crash 
occured when I was loading something new, in this case, Firefox Preferences.
 
Links to screenshots:
http://expandapps.org/pics/Crash1-1.JPG (Crash #1 - Pic 1 - most important
one)
http://expandapps.org/pics/Crash1-2.JPG (Crash #1 - Pic 2)
http://expandapps.org/pics/Crash1-3.JPG (Crash #1 - Pic 3)
http://expandapps.org/pics/Crash2.JPG (Crash #2)
http://expandapps.org/pics/Crash3.JPG (Crash #3)

Comment 1 Jacob Godserv 2006-11-09 09:16:04 UTC

I've upgraded to latest drm, mesa, and xf86-driver-ati modules from git and 
cvs, but I still get crashing. Now I get screen-goes-blank and screen-gets-
zoomed-and-strecthed-vertically-plus-squigglies crashes, but crash #1 and #2 is 
gone.

I'll upload new pictures for the new crashes.

Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2006-11-12 04:46:38 UTC

Please don't combine several issues into a single report. For each of the issues
you're still seeing, please follow up to an existing report about it or create a
new one.

Comment 3 Jacob Godserv 2006-11-19 15:36:22 UTC

This bug post contains problems that either are fixed, or need to be re-
explained now that I have more data on the crashes.

I'll post a link to a new bug report once I make the new bug report.

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