Re: 2.6.11-mm2 + Radeon crash

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh_at_kernel.crashing.org)
Date: 03/10/05

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    To: Christian Henz <christian.henz@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:49:02 +1100

    On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:12 +0100, Christian Henz wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I wanted to try 2.6.11-mm2 for the low latency/realtime lsm stuff and
    > I've run into a severe
    > problem.
    >
    > When I try to start X, my machine reboots. The screen goes dark as
    > usual when setting the video mode, but then I get a beep and I'm
    > greeted with the BIOS boot messages. This happened 4/5 times i've
    > tried, and once the video mode was actually set (at least I saw the
    > usual X b/w pattern with some random framebuffer garbage), the machine
    > didn't reboot but after that nothing happened. My keyboard was still
    > responsive (ie NumLock LED would still go on/off), but i could neither
    > kill X with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE nor could i switch back to console, so
    > I ended up pressing reset.
    >
    > After the crashes I booted with a rescue CD to examine the logs, but I
    > could not find any obvious errors.
    >
    > Everything works nicely on 2.6.10 and earlier kernels. I'm in the
    > process of building 2.6.11.2 to see if the crash occurs there.

    So ?

    Ben.

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