Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel

[Badari Pulavarty]

Dave Airlie wrote:

> > ah-hah.  We've had machines stuck in radeon_do_wait_for_idle() before.  In
> > fact, my workstation was doing it a year or two back.
> >
> > Are you able to identify the most recent kernel which didn't do this?
> >
> > David, is there a common cause for this?  ISTR that it's a semi-FAQ.
>
>
> Yes invariably the GPU has crashed and isn't responding to anything.
> unfortuantely radeons have a lot of reasons for crashing most of them very
> unrelated to anything like reality...  we normally try and approach them
> on a case by case basis as some can be solved easily some not so...
>
> Also what X was doing etc at the time is invalulable info..

What information I can collect ? My machine seems to be reproducing this
pretty regularly.

Thanks,
Badari

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