Bug 37166 - 3D applications with larger textures cause X to freeze
Summary: 3D applications with larger textures cause X to freeze
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: 7.5 (2009.10)
Hardware: PowerPC Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: xf86-video-ati maintainers
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2011-05-13 02:21 UTC by Vlado Plaga
Modified: 2018-06-12 19:10 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Xorg.0.log with EQ overflow error and backtrace (89.41 KB, text/x-log)
2011-05-13 02:21 UTC, Vlado Plaga
no flags Details
dmesg output (25.65 KB, application/octet-stream)
2011-05-13 02:21 UTC, Vlado Plaga
no flags Details

Description Vlado Plaga 2011-05-13 02:21:14 UTC
Created attachment 46669 [details]
Xorg.0.log with EQ overflow error and backtrace

Although I know that the UMS driver is no longer top priority (and probably even less so on PowerPC) I'd appreciate help in solving this issue. I already invested to many hours in trying to make "3D" work on this old Mac mini for just giving up. ;-)

I never had stable 3D under Linux on this computer. With KMS I don't get it to run at all and with UMS only some applications work well: glxgears and /usr/lib/xscreensaver/queens for example. What I'd be more interested in, a GL desktop or GL slideshow, always crashes X immediately. From what I found on the net it might be ralated to an AGP problem, but I did not manage to reduce AGP speed. When I give "radeon.agpmode=1" to the "Kernel command line" there are still lines like the following in dmesg:
[   27.784430] agpgart-uninorth 0000:00:0b.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
[   27.784444] pci 0000:00:10.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode

Accordingly I get "(==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x" in "Xorg.0.log".

I'm attaching my Xorg.0.log ending with "[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop." and a short backtrace. This is from Debian 6.0 (and I'm not sure it really is version 6.8.0 of the Radeon driver).
Comment 1 Vlado Plaga 2011-05-13 02:21:59 UTC
Created attachment 46670 [details]
dmesg output
Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2011-05-13 02:27:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> [...] I did not manage to reduce AGP speed. When I give "radeon.agpmode=1" to
> the "Kernel command line" there are still lines like the following in dmesg:

radeon.agpmode only has an effect with KMS. With UMS, you need to use Option "AGPMode" in xorg.conf.
Comment 3 Vlado Plaga 2011-05-13 02:52:49 UTC
Found the correct xorg version (with "aptitude show xorg")...

Here are a few lines from glxinfo:

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5962) 20090101 AGP 4x PowerPC/Altivec TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.7.1
Comment 4 Vlado Plaga 2011-05-13 03:57:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)

> radeon.agpmode only has an effect with KMS. With UMS, you need to use Option
> "AGPMode" in xorg.conf.

Thanks for the quick reply! I tried that as well (although I think I had tried it before, for the option was in my xorg.conf, but commented out). The effect was the same: a blue-ish full screen picture, and a dead X server. The backtrace in Xorg.0.log seems to be identical to the one I already attached to this report.

Now I also created a new report for the KMS situation in Ubuntu: #37169
Comment 5 Alex Deucher 2011-05-13 08:56:43 UTC
You might try using the internal gart rather than AGP.  For UMS:
Option "BusType" "PCI"
in the device section of your xorg.conf
Comment 6 Vlado Plaga 2011-05-16 12:10:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)

'Option "BusType" "PCI"' maybe led to a slight improvement, but not to a solution. I noticed the preview window shows the GLSlideshow xscreensaver without crashing X, so I thought a lower resolution might help. And indeed: switching to 720x400 I could even preview that screensaver in full screen mode. But already the modest resolution of 1024x768 caused a crash like before (as in the attached Xorg.0.log).
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2018-06-12 19:10:49 UTC
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.


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