Re: 9800 lockups, why fixing them seems to be that hard ?

[Jerome G. <j.g...@gm...>]

On 6/19/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <be...@ke...> wrote:
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>
> I don't know if it's related or not (is the M24 apparented to the 9800
> in any way ?), but on Tridge laptop, with one of these chips, he gets
> total hard lockups of the laptop when using google earth with the
> current r300 DRI (after disabling the smooth fallbacks since google
> earth trigger them). It worked with an earlier r300 DRI though (whatever
> debian used to have, he'll try to figure out more precisely).

I think almost all r3xx suffer from this to different extend. So far
i saw such lockup on 9800, 9700(mobility), 9600(mobility & normal).
Thus it's likely that fglrx could help...

> Also, Wolfenstein locks up solid right away if you pop the quake
> "console". If you don't do that, it works fine in window mode (it
> displays nothing in full screen). With both the old and the current
> driver.
>
> I have asked him to test with fglrx first to see if that helps. I expect
> he'll pop on this list or the bugzilla with more details soon.
>

If he could use and existing bug there is so much of them :(
I am hopping getting some days off this week to finish this...

best,
Jerome Glisse