On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:57 +0300, Aapi HÃmÃlÃinen wrote: > to, 01-07-2004 kello 21:21 -0400, Patrick McFarland kirjoitti: > > > Im currently using the r200 snapshots, and some programs seem to randomly > > crash, taking themselves and X with them (the xserver doesnt segfault, it > > wont die even if you kill -9 it, and I cant restart X unless I restart the > > box) > > Sounds familiar, I've been experiencing similar crashes for quite a > while now. Enemy Territory, Wolf and sometimes even OpenGL screensavers > kill X pretty thoroughly, although sometimes my whole box seems to die > -- network and even magic sysreq are gone. Sometimes it's just X that > dies but restarting it does no good. Basically it looks as if the > radeon's internal state was a mess, as it does absolutely nothing (keeps > displaying whatever it was displaying when X crashed) until the box is > rebooted.
Yes, those are all symptoms of chip lockups. The watchdog and engine reset patches discussed recently might help to some degree, but of course the best thing would be to find and fix the bugs that cause the lockups... -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
