From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: System hangs with ATI Radeon 7200 when DRI is in used. DRI works for a time usually about 30 secs and then the system hangs. No cursor movement, cann't switch to pseudo terminal (<ctrl><ALT> <f1>), and the only thing that does work is reset. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-42, kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.execute glxinfo and verify direct rendering is support 2.exexute glxgears - the system will hang before status are reported. 3. Actual Results: system hangs Expected Results: status should be reported and system continue to work. Additional info:
The system can be recovered by kill -9 of the X server process.
The system is nonresponsive, mouse is frozen, can't set focus to another xterm or switch to virtual terminal, so sending a kill -9 to the X server is not possible.
Is this still an issue with the latest rawhide XFree86 and kernel?
Pete, does it work in Fedora Core 2, with xorg-x11?
Pete has not responded in a seriously long time, so I am assuming this is fixed. There have been a great many fixes to both kernel XFree86/xorg-x11 since late 2003. REOPEN only if this exact issue still exists with FC2 + all updates.
The problem is more serious now. You cannot even use this card without locking up the machine. The version of card that I used was a PCI card.
Created attachment 103939 [details] This is /var/log/messages While searching for bugs related to the radeon 7200 card, I stumbled on this report. I cannot get as far as trying glxgears, but the hard lockup was experienced. I hit alt-sysrq-b and then hit my reset button and it seemed to shutdown. This seems to be happening when /dev/radeon is created. I tried with FC3T1 fresh install and also FC3T2 RC2 and had the same type problem. This is from the FC3T2 RC2 system.
See xorg-x11 bug listing https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1384 and the associated tester for additional failure statistics.