From: <bug...@bu...> - 2006-05-30 13:17:50
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6626 Summary: Infrequent system freezes when using OpenGL on ATI radeon driver r100 Kernel Version: 2.6.16 Status: NEW Severity: normal Owner: dri...@ke... Submitter: aus...@gm... Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: Distribution: Kanotix Hardware Environment: IBM Thinkpad X31, ATI Mobility M6 Software Environment: Debian unstable Problem Description: First of all: I´m sorry that I don´t have very closely identified the problem so far. Unfortunately, I haven´t got much help elsewhere. In my last bug report here, I was given help very fast, so I just try with this much more complicated one... So, the problem is simply that the computer system freezes completely in irregular time intervals. The whole system freezes and is no longer responsive to anything. BIOS still responds (at least I got sound signals when plugging in or out the ac adaptor). No network either, screen just freezes, too. The RAM has been checked thoroughly with memtest for more than 12 hours -> no problem. The freezes are totally infrequent and occur on average once or twice per week. Sometimes the system has been running for only a few minutes, somtimes for days. There are no system messages related to the freeze. It just happens -> that´s why I suspect a kernel driver. The only commonality I have found so far, is that all crashes seem to appear when an OpenGL application is running (e.g. screensaver). So I might suspect the ATI radeon driver. Here is some data: xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 xserver-xorg 7.0.19 OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20050528 AGP 1x NO-TCL OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 6.4.1 And here the xorg conf part: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI" Driver "radeon" VendorName "IBM Thinkpad" BoardName "ATI Radeon Mobility M6" Option "EnablePageFlip" "on" Option "AGPFastWrite" "no" Option "DynamicClocks" "on" Option "BIOSHotkeys" "on" Option "MetaModes" "1024x768 1024x768-1280x1024 1280x1024" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "sw_cursor" "off" EndSection Now I know that this is not much info, not even sure that it´s really the video driver. So my main question is: How can I identify the problem cause? Is there any possibility to get more debug info? How do you normally identify the component responsible for such an infrequent crash? Thanks for any help!! Michael P.S.: BTW, I haven´t even found a specific xorg bugtracker... Steps to reproduce: ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. |