Bug 58188

Summary:

system hard locks on specific video setting

Product:

[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

Dean Oliver <dean_oliver>

Component:

XFree86

Assignee:

Mike A. Harris <mharris>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

David Lawrence <dkl>

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high

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medium

Version:

7.2

CC:

afom_m, clay_cooper, dale_kaisner, danny_trinh, dean_oliver, john_hull, matt_domsch, michael_e_brown

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2002-03-07 20:59:08 UTC

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Description Dean Oliver 2002-01-10 19:55:40 UTC

Description of Problem: 
 The system will hard lock with little or no activity on a specific 

video setting, running a video intensive app will cause the freeze to occur within 

seconds.

Platforms: PE-6650, PE-4600
Kernel: 2.4.7-10smp (up works ok)
Video chip: on-
board 
ati rage xl 8meg.
Resolution: 1600x1200 (only)
Color depth: 16 bit (only)
Monitor: 
Dell 
M780 or P780
Desktop: KDE or Gnome
Desktop Manager: kdm, gdm or xdm
Memory: 512 
mg
Swap: 
1gig

How Reproducible:
  Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RH 7.2
2. 
Select 
1600x1200 resolution and 16bit color mode
3. start X, run gears or gloss or some other 
video 
intensive app, hard lock should occur within 5 seconds, or may occur before desktop is 
finished 
loading.

Actual Results:
  A system freeze within seconds of desktop loading, a 
hard reboot 
is necessary.

Expected Results:
  No lock-up

Additional Information:
  Does 
not occur on PE-
2500.
  Also tested at 1600x1200 in 8bit and 24bit ok. 
  16bit with resolution 
lower than 
1600x1200 ok.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-01-18 08:17:29 UTC

Please attach you X configuration file, and X server logs using the
attachment link below.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2002-01-18 08:20:12 UTC

Also..  Please upgrade your kernel and other packages to the latest
official erratum releases.

This is most likely a kernel issue.

Comment 3 Dean Oliver 2002-01-22 23:44:21 UTC

Created attachment 43215 [details]
XFree86 config

Comment 4 Dean Oliver 2002-01-22 23:45:15 UTC

Created attachment 43216 [details]
XFree Log

Comment 5 Dean Oliver 2002-01-22 23:45:49 UTC

Attached log and config for X.

Comment 6 Dean Oliver 2002-01-24 20:28:49 UTC

Have tested this with the 2.4.9-13smp kernel and issue still exists.

Comment 7 Matt Domsch 2002-02-01 16:27:07 UTC

Dean, please try with kernel 2.4.9-21smp.
-Matt

Comment 8 Matt Domsch 2002-02-01 21:10:59 UTC

Word from AMI may help, or not.

The following video modes are NOT supported under Windows 2000, and could be 
related to Linux as well.

 
Resolution	Refresh Rate (Hz)	Color Depth
800x600	180			32
1024x768	120			32
1024x768	140			32
1024x768	150			32
1024x768	160			32
1152x864	47			24 and 32
1152x864	60			24 and 32
1152x864	70			24 and 32
1152x864	75			24 and 32
1152x864	80			24 and 32
1152x864	85			24 and 32
1152x864	100			24 and 32
1152x864	120			24 and 32
1280x1024	43			24 and 32
1280x1024	47			24 and 32
1280x1024	60			24 and 32
1280x1024	70			24 and 32
1280x1024	74			24 and 32
1280x1024	75			24 and 32
1280x1024	85			24 and 32
1280x1024	90			24 and 32
1280x1024	100			24 and 32
1600x1200	52			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	58			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	60			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	66			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	72			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	75			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	76			16, 24, and 32
1600x1200	85			16, 24, and 32

It's OK to share with Red Hat. 
Note that this issue arises due to the limitation in memory bandwidth of our 
current ATI Rage XL implementation. Dell is using a 32 bit frame buffer memory 
interface with the Rage XL chip. The stock driver which we have been using was 
written for the 64 bit memory interface.

Comment 9 Mike A. Harris 2002-02-13 19:19:24 UTC

From what you describe above, this seems more like a hardware flaw to
me than a software flaw, however if that is the case, about all we can
do is detect this video card, and disable all of the above video modes,
so that the server does not crash.

Could you please see if it continues to occur with the 4.1.0-15 XFree86
erratum release?  If so, please also test the rawhide version of XFree86
and see if that changes anything?

Comment 10 Mike A. Harris 2002-02-13 19:33:39 UTC

Also, if the above testing turns out to not solve anything, I will
contact ATI myself directly to discuss the problem, and seek assistance
at finding a solution.

Thanks,
TTYL

Comment 11 Matt Domsch 2002-02-28 21:48:46 UTC

Dean, have you tested this with 2.4.9-21 or the new 2.4.9-31 kernel yet?  
Jaguar's trying to get out of system test and wants to know what's up with 
this...

Mike, any other news from ATI on this?
-Matt

Comment 12 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-07 20:34:39 UTC

SOrry for not responding earlier, I've got an updated driver in now that
might work.  It's been in the last couple releases.  4.2.0-6.41 being
current.

Can you test it out and update the report?

Thanks

Comment 13 Dean Oliver 2002-03-07 20:59:03 UTC

Problem seems to be fixed with new driver!!
Hampton beta 2

Comment 14 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-07 21:39:03 UTC

Fantastic.  Again, sorry for the delay notifying you of new packages...
bugzilla is becoming a universe of its own to keep track of.  ;o)

Thanks for testing and responding so quickly.

Comment 15 Matt Domsch 2002-03-07 22:13:05 UTC

Are the new packages slated for:
1) Errata release for 7.2
2) Pensacola release
3) Hampton release

??

-Matt

Comment 16 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-07 22:33:47 UTC

Hampton,however it is possible any erratum released prior to that could also
contain the fix as well.

Comment 17 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-17 18:37:21 UTC

Update:  This bugfix will soon appear in XFree86 4.1.0 erratum packages
for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2, and also are slated for inclusion in
Pensacola as well.

Comment 18 Mark J. Cox 2003-06-25 15:52:32 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-066.html