Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:21:59PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > I'm throwing an uneducated guess that this log means that there's some > > locking-up drm inconsistency > > during server crash shutdown (subsystem shutdown order violation?) > > which is rendering my entire machine useless, including blocking tty access. > > Pretty much X dies, tries to get the GPU driver to go back to text > mode, this re-enters somewhere > holding the drm lock and the GPU dies. Pretty much sums up the whole > problem with graphics card > drivers on Linux, I can't say how we can fix that apart from if you > could gdb the X server and we > can fix the actual crash so we can avoid the issue.
"avoid the issue"... "in _this_ particular problem case", you wanted to say (picture Sisyphos :). Ah, darn, I should have kept X running for some longer, or rather directly presented gdb stuff such as backtrace, local environment etc. I will handle this in a more flexible manner next time, however. > The real fix for this sort of issues is called kernel modesetting. ...and I was almost ready to migrate to it already. ;) Now strongly pondering whether I should. > Dave. Thank you for the fast reply! Andreas Mohr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
