Re: ATI R128 chipset and DRI lockup

[Shaun Carter <thecarters9@comcast.net>]

Thanks mike for the info.  I did find the bugzilla entry, my bad.  I
loaded null on the desktop (no critical files here) and DRI works great
now.  Thanks for the fix.

The XFree I was running was the current ZFree up2date available on the
date posted.

Once again, thanks for the fix, now I can play my dvd's AND play
chromium, talk about fun.

On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 22:41, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Carter, Shaun G wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:12:40 -0400
> >From: "Carter, Shaun G" <shaun.carter@eds.com>
> >To: "'limbo-list@redhat.com'" <limbo-list@redhat.com>
> >Content-Type: text/plain;
> >	charset="iso-8859-1"
> >List-Id: Discussion of the Red Hat Linux 'Limbo' beta
> >    <limbo-list.redhat.com>
> >Subject: ATI R128 chipset and DRI lockup
> >
> >I still have not seen any solutions to this problem.  Ever since RH7.3 my
> >system will lock up when playing ANY (mpg, mpeg, avi...)video format with
> >ANY (xine, gtv, mpeg123, ogle...) video player when DRI is uncommented in
> >XF86Config-4.  If I comment that line out, everything plays fine, however,
> >acceleration gets disabled (things like chromium slow my system down so bad
> >that it take ~30secs to switch to tty1).  
> >
> >I noticed a couple bugs out there for the same issue, but all seem to have
> >been resolved as either misconfiguration or wrong kernel (none of which are
> >the case here).  This happened on 7.3/limbo/limbo2/(null).  
> 
> There is a bug in the R128 driver in XFree86 4.2.0 which causes a 
> hang due to DMA being used with Xv.  The XFree86 in Null/rawhide 
> has contained a fix for this for a while now.
> 
> 
> >I also have (null) on my laptop (running some 2D card, don't remember at the
> >moment) and it runs video fine (this could be due to no 3D accel?).
> 
> Different cards use different drivers.
> 
> 
> >I just loaded Mandrake 9.0RC1 on the same pc to check if it did the same
> >thing.  It does NOT.  I really do not like Mandrake though, so most likely
> >it will be uninstalled by the end of the week with 7.3 reinstalled and
> >up2dated.  However, the point is that Mandrakes config works while RH's does
> >not.  What difference could there be between the two to cause something like
> >this. 
> 
> If Mandrake XFree86 contains a bug fix for something which ours 
> does not, I am more than happy to investigate it, and add it to 
> our XFree86 if it is sane.
> 
> >Help please!  I hate having to keep editing the XF86Config file and
> >restarting X so I can do different things.
> 
> What specific version of XFree86 are you using?
> 
>     rpm -q XFree86
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike A. Harris		ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
> OS Systems Engineer
> XFree86 maintainer
> Red Hat Inc.
> 
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