From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: Happening from fresh install using downloaded ISO's When switching to another virtual console the X server crashes immediately. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1a. Invoke "startx" from a virtual console. 1b. Boot the system at runlevel 5 and login at the graphical prompt. 2. Wait for X to load, then 3. Switch to another virtual console (ctrl+alt+F1 -> F6) Actual Results: If running at runlevel 3 I am immediately returned to the console where I invoked "startx". When running at runlevel 5, it returns to the Graphical login screen Expected Results: Should be able to do work from the other virtual console, then be able to switch back to X (ctrl+alt+F7). Additional info: This happens regardless of if I am logged/logging in as a normal user or root. In addition it does not make any difference what programs are running, in fact it can happen if I were simply at the desktop. X Logs end with:- ------------------------------------------ LP ring tail: 8 head: 0 len: 0 start 0 eir: 0 esr: 0 emr: 3d instdone: ff7b instpm: 0 memmode: 4 instps: 0 hwstam: 0 ier: 3 imr: 0 iir: 0 space: 65520 wanted 65528 (II) I810(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) I810(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xd496c000 at 0x40013000 Fatal server error: lockup
Created attachment 79865 [details] X Server logs
I have the same problem. I'm also using RH8. An the same card (Intel i810)
Me too!
For me the same problem. I'm using several Siemens desktop pc's with also i810/i815. This problem also existed with RH 7.3
I also have repeatable RH8 X server crashes with i810, which did _not_ exist when I had 7.2.
Created attachment 81664 [details] X-server log
I also have this problem on Red Hat 8.0. My video card is an i815. The logs seem to suggest a problem with the AGP driver.
Created attachment 82984 [details] X server log
Created attachment 83284 [details] Contents of /etc/modules.conf and output from /proc/version
Arjan, any comments?
To backup aydiner, I have just gone back to RH7.3 to confirm if problem existed before, it doesn't. The RPM used was "XFree86-4.2.0-8", XFree86 4.2.0, which looks like the same version as that included with RH8.
Created attachment 85146 [details] output from /proc/version and /etc/modules.conf
I am also seeing this with an i810 machine running stock 8.0. After futzing with this, I have found similar errors pgetbl_ctl: 0xc8a0001 pgetbl_err: 0x0 ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0 LP ring tail: 8 head: 0 len: 0 start 0 eir: 0 esr: 0 emr: 3d instdone: ff7b instpm: 0 memmode: 4 instps: 0 hwstam: 0 ier: 3 imr: 0 iir: 0 space: 65520 wanted 65528 Fatal server error: lockup plus the following in dmesg mtrr: base(0xf4000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
I get this problem as well using a i815, but I was able to fix it by changing my color depth to 15K instead of 16K. (redhat-config-xfree86) Once that is changed the hardware 3D acceleration is disabled, as it only works when the color depth is set to 16K (I read this somewhere on the Xfree86 website). So games like tuxracer are now choppy and un-playable. This is just a quick fix I found for my server environment, hope it works for some of you. Just a note... I've seen this happen using other video cards while taking the RH133 Course, I can't remember the brand, but they were Dell workstations. Hope this helps guys.
I'm actually seeing a kerenl panic, if not just a hard lockup (no net response, just blinking keyboard LEDs), anytime the X server attempts to exit on an older Compaq with i810. If this could be related, would the panic info help?
I experienced the same problem with ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 (on a Dell Inspirion 8200 laptop). The vesa video driver is used because no radeon 9000 driver for X is available yet.
Created attachment 89467 [details] output from modules.conf
Created attachment 89468 [details] output from /proc/version
Created attachment 89665 [details] output from /proc/version and /etc/modules.conf
I have the same problem with a GeForce4 Ti4200 chip. I think the .xsession-errors in the users home directory might be useful, too. (I didn't send it, because I don't want to spam the attachment list)
Have hit the same bug on RH8.0 on several computers. All exhibit the error: [ drm: i810_wait_ring ] *ERROR* space: 65512 wanted 65528 [ drm: i810_wait_ring ] *ERROR* lockup. Error reproduced when trying to log in to virtual consoles as root.
Have tested X-console fix by reducing Colour depth to 15bit from 16bit. Problem goes away. I can now use all virtual consoles. Console graphic rsolution sucks, but that is better than not having tty1-7. So, this truly can be classed as an "ugly work around".
I believe this bug is the same issue as one that was just recently tracked down by Arjan, as a bug in the kernel DRM, which was just fixed in the latest rawhide 2.6.x kernels. Setting status to "MODIFIED" pending testing. Please upgrade to Fedora Core 2 test3 or the final release of Fedora Core 2 once it is out, and update the report ot indicate if the problem is resolved or not, and set the status to RAWHIDE, CURRENTRELEASE, or ASSIGNED respectively. Thanks in advance for testing.