Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97251
hyperball hangs ThinkPad T40
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:54:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: Running the hyperball screensaver, even in a window (i.e., not as a screensaver), hangs my IBM ThinkPad T40 laptop. This happens even when the screensaver is run as a regular user, usually after 10 seconds - 3 minutes of run. Everything is normal until then, including a constant amount of process memory. Other mild weirdness: there is junk in the hyperball window after the hyperball starts rolling. It seems to be unerased lines from the initial screen. It doesn't get worse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-4.07-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/hyperball to a command prompt 2.wait a few minutes Actual Results: - everything is normal until the machine crashes - ps auxw | grep hyper indicates no growth at all in the memory used by the process - when the machine crashes, the screen contents remain unchanged - the keyboad does not respond to any set of keystrokes, including caps lock, ctrl-alt-delete/backspace/F1-F12, Fn-anything. Only holding down the power "key" produces the response of turning off the power. - the mouse does not move - network connections to the machine die - the machine is unpingable - there are no log messages - there is no core dump - if the machine is pinged, the traffic light next to the ethernet socket does blink once per ping. This and the fan are the only signs of life... Expected Results: Just the normal hyperball rolling around. No crash! Additional info: IBM ThinkPad T40 model 2373-92U 1400x1050 screenadeo ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 graphics adapter Red Hat 9 with updates through 28 May 2003 xscreensaver-4.07-2 XFree86-4.3.0-2, using radeon driver Workaround: remove hyperball from the random screensaver list. I've marked this as high severity because the default screensaver is a random selection that will eventually find the hyperball and crash the machine. Users who leave their laptop running find it crashed while they're gone. Of course, I suspect the problem is in XFree86 or the radeon driver, but I can't be sure. Perhaps it has to do with the handling of 1-pixel lines. All the other screensavers work fine, including the GLX ones. I don't know if hyperball uses GLX. --jh--
Hm, it's been running fine for an hour here on a T40p. Assigning to X - note that hyperball is not a glx screensaver.
The T40p and the T40 have different graphics subsystems. The T40p has an ATI Mobility FIRE GL 9000 with 64 MB and the T40 (or at least the 237392U model) has an ATI Mobility RADEON 9000 with 32 MB. Let me know if I should send configuration things like the kind of focus (I use follow-pointer, though I don't see how this would matter given that it crashes in the middle of the night when I'm not using it). --jh--
I see the same behavior on my Dell Inspiron 8500. Please let me know if there is additional information that I can provide. $ lspci |grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000] (rev 01)
I have the same adapter, different rev: lspci |grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000] (rev 02) Hey Red Hat folks, any chance of work here? If not, is there another place we can report this? Might ATI help? Sarah, what version of XFree86 are you running? What kernel? Thanks, --jh--
Responding to the questions above: $ XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.3.0-2) Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-3bigmem i686 [ELF] Build Date: 27 February 2003 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-18.9 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu May 29 07:08:16 EDT 2003 P Per the above, the kernel version is 2.4.20-18.9 $ rpm -qi kernel-2.4.20-18.9 Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.4.20 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 18.9 Build Date: Thu 29 May 2003 04:15:12 AM PDT Install Date: Sun 13 Jul 2003 12:03:19 PM PDT Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.4.20-18.9.src.rpm Size : 32167682 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 02 Jun 2003 08:34:45 AM PDT, Key ID 219180cddb42a60e Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : [...]
hyperball seems to work fine on radeon hardware with our current rawhide xorg-x11. Please test this, and if you still experience the problem on mobile radeon chips, please file a bug report upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the 'xorg' component, with full details, and paste the upstream URL here, and we will track the issue upstream. Thanks for testing.