Re: [Dri-devel] DRI locking up on gears w/ mga

[Andy I. <ad...@he...>]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:56:15AM -0500, Michael Ledet wrote:
> I'm having problems with lockups while using dri with the mga driver.  I
> can easily reproduce the problems by doing any of the following:
[snip]
> In all cases I get the following message in syslog
> 
>    kernel: [drm:mga_fire_primary] *ERROR* num_dwords == 0 when dispatched

I had experienced this frequently back in December timeframe, but the
recent MGA driver fixes seem to have killed off this bug.  I can now run
TuxRacer or Quake3 for hours without crashing.  Either grab a CVS tree
and compile it yourself, or wait for 4.1.0 which should have the fixes.

-andy