On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:04:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 23:05 +0200, Fabian Köster wrote: > > > > I have a similar problem using Ubuntu Jaunty with the radeon-driver. > > > > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/348332 > > Backtraces aren't useful for classifying GPU lockup problems because > they just show one of a few places where the drivers wait for the GPU to > catch up, which never happens because it's locked up. This is usually > unrelated to the place where the commands causing the GPU to lock up > were generated though. So this kind of problem needs to be classified by > what triggers it instead.
Ok. Any idea how I can debug that? I have ssh access to the hanging machine, and I can use gdb, strace, whatever is needed. (My card is an intel one, not a radon.) And I'd be willing to spend time debugging this, since having my computer freeze twice a day is annoying as hell. There doesn't seem to be any reliable way to trigger the hang, but it seems that more often than not the hang happens when redrawing a Firefox window. Generally it seems to happen roughly once per five hours of normal use. BTW there's a "size" parameter to drmWrite() or whatever (don't have the computer on right now), and it's often something really absurd, in the order of 10^15 on a 64-bit computer. Any chance that could be used to catch where such a command is generated? > That said, a few people above mention that kernel 2.6.29 or newer solved > their problem. Have you tried that? I'm running on 2.6.30.1. Last happened yesterday to me, twice. No change since 2.6.29 at least. In the meantime I had my computer working after I switched from EXA to UXA - UXA does not hang. That worked fine for a while. However since recently - unfortunately I don't know if after a kernel or X update - UXA is _really_ slow. For example, when viewing a man page in an X terminal (konsole), pressing space to get to the next page hangs X for around one second at 100% CPU. Same thing with gnome-terminal. And this is without anything fancy like KDE's OpenGL-based "desktop effects" turned on. A nethack-style game is slow to the point of being unplayable because X can't keep up :-) (I can also try to look at why UXA is suddenly so slow if you wish. Actually I already filed a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/534991 and would appreciate pointers at where to look further.) Sami
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