Bug 51185 - kernel oops with DRI enabled in 4.1.0-0.9.11 + kernel 2.4.7-0.8
Summary: kernel oops with DRI enabled in 4.1.0-0.9.11 + kernel 2.4.7-0.8
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-08 10:44 UTC by Didier
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-08 12:06:41 UTC
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Description Didier 2001-08-08 10:44:19 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Starting X with DRI enabled in XF86Config-4 oopses kernel 2.4.7-0.8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install kernel-2.4.7-0.8 , XFree86-4.1.0-0.9.11
2. Load DRI in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
3. startx
	

Actual Results:  Kernel oopses ; system hangs (SysRq-Raw doesn't work ,
SysRq-Boot does).


Expected Results:  X should start.

Additional info:

This is reproducable on 2 completely different machines (desktop PIII-450
VIA + Matrox G400 , portable IBM A21p PIII-850 440BX + ATI Mobility 128).

OS Versions :
desktop : clean 7.1 with updates
portable : 7.1 with updates and some Rawhides (pre-Roswell)

On both systems :
glibc : 2.2.3-19.1
xinitrc : 3.15-1


I'm not sure whether this should be posted in the kernel and/or Roswell bug
components too ?

kernel oops --> priority = high ?
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-08-08 10:54:18 UTC 
That kernel does not have XFree86 4.1.0 DRI in it.  Roswell does not
have DRI support for XFree86 4.1.0 at all.  Future releases of the
kernel *will* have proper DRI support, however there were various
issues including security issues that needed to be resolved before
including the new DRM in our kernel.

DRM is now integrated into the Rawhide kernel, however there may or
may not be some remaining issues left.  I'll let Arjan comment on
this before closing the bug report with RAWHIDE.
Comment 2 Didier 2001-08-08 11:55:31 UTC 
As I noted, I'm *not* running Roswell ,just some assorted Rawhides on one of the
affected machines.


No DRI ?
rpm -qi kernel-2.4.7-0.8 --changelog reports:

* Sat Aug 04 2001 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>

- Added DRI for XFree 4.1



I reverted back to Xfree86-4.1.0-9.1, same lockups : I suppose it is a kernel issue.

"Load DRI" in XF86Config-4 autoloads the "r128.o" module (usage=1) and locks up.
If I disable the "Load DRI" and modprobe the r128.0, X loads and usage=0.


As a sidenote : with 2.4.7-0.8, I'm getting random-interval screen glitches on
my A21p LCD (1600x1200x16), whether or not r128.o is loaded ; something to do
with agpgart ?
Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-08-08 12:06:35 UTC 
-0.8 showed a bug in the original XFree 4.1 DRM code (the kernel part) which got
fixed in kernel -0.9.1 which should appear in rawhide soon.
Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2001-08-10 19:08:34 UTC 
What Arjan says is correct.  You should be using kernel
2.4.7-0.11.1 or later for DRI support.  Newer kernel the
better.
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