Does switching to a VT before suspend and switching back after help any?

Dave.


On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Robos wrote:

> Hi dear developers :)
> Thanks a lot for your efforts! Now my (newbie) question:
> my i830 dri powered xserver sometimes restarts after suspend-to-ram (loosing
> all open windows) with this error message in dmesg:
> [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 52232 wanted 131064
> [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
>
> I have this with all versions of the dri modules and the cvs doesn't differ
> from any release file. From what I gather (newbie programmer) from
> xc/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/i830_dma.c
> does i830_wait_ring try to get space as much as passed as an arg to it. If
> the ring->head doesn't change anymore the ticks start to sum up till jiffies
> is larger than 100000 (HZ*100) and then it jumps out of this allocation
> routine, complaining with the above error message. Whats the reason that
> this happens? What are these 131064? Are these bytes?
> This xserver restarting is really bad since all open docs,
> editors and webpages get lost...
> Thanks in advance
>
> Robos
>
>
>

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person



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