Re: [Dri-devel] Problem with Radeon 9000 and lockups

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Die, 2003-04-15 at 09:57, Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
> 
> I have just installed RedHat 9 on my system. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
> (128MB ram) and I'm suffering from severe lockups that appear to have 
> something
> to do with the amount of geometry that is drawn in an OpenGL application. In
> my particular case I'm testing with Crystal Space. I get very good 
> performance
> with little geometry in view (more than 200 fps). As soon as the amount of
> geometry goes up the performance goes down VERY sharply and soon the system
> will completey lock up (have to power down everything).
> 
> When I was using RedHat 7.3 on the same system before I was using the 
> drivers
> from ATI and I got no problems then (with the same version of Crystal Space
> and the same hardware). Unfortunatelly I can not use the drivers from 
> ATI now
> as RedHad 9 comes with XFree 4.3 and ATI drivers only go up to XFree 4.2.
> 
> I notice that there is already a FAQ entry about this problem at
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/faq/faq_display.phtml?id=49
> But there didn't appear to be any solution in that faq entry.
> 
> This is really a bad problem for me (is stopping me developing on 
> Crystal Space) and
> I wonder if any progress is being made on fixing this bug. Is there 
> anything I can
> do to help fix it perhaps?

You can try a current snapshot from
http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ and see if that works better.


> Also is there some forced command I could use to get me out of that locked
> situation so that I don't have to power down my system all the time. 
> i.e. I thought
> about using a script like this:
> 
>     ./program &
>     export PID=$!
>     sleep 30
>     kill $PID
> 
> So the program would be killed in 30 seconds after startup. 
> Unfortunatelly this
> doesn't restore system operation. But perhaps there is something that I 
> could do
> to force X to restart?

You can try Magic Sysrq or killing the client and/or the X server
remotely, but depending on how bad the lockup is, that may not help
either.


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