Re: 2.6.16-rc3: more regressions

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:35:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > > Subject    : Xorg freezes 2.6.16-rc1
 > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/26/97
 > > Submitter  : Mauro Tassinari <mtassinari@cmanet.it>
 > > Status     : unknown
 > 
 > For this one, it would be interesting to see more info about the working 
 > setup. Notably
 > 
 >  - what modules are loaded by the time X is running
 >  - any differences in 'dmesg' output from 2.6.15 to 16-rc1 (PCI allocation 
 >    issues should show up there)
 > 
 > Of course, in a perfect world, we'd have serial or network console 
 > output.. X crashes are nastier than most, if only because the console is 
 > mostly gone.
 
I think this is the Radeon DRM bug I hit.  (rc1 had a big drm update iirc)

Unless I patch with this..

--- linux-2.6.15.noarch/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h~  2006-02-09 19:26:06.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.15.noarch/drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h   2006-02-09 19:26:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
        {0x1002, 0x5969, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV100}, \
        {0x1002, 0x596A, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
        {0x1002, 0x596B, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
-       {0x1002, 0x5b60, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV350}, \
        {0x1002, 0x5c61, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280|CHIP_IS_MOBILITY}, \
        {0x1002, 0x5c62, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280}, \
        {0x1002, 0x5c63, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, CHIP_RV280|CHIP_IS_MOBILITY}, \

I get a machine check exception, triple fault, or NMI watchdog lockup.

		Dave

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