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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:18
Message-Id: 200911051727.10248.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I have 4 nearly identical machines (same brand and model of motherbaord)
5 > with AMD 790GX + SB750 Chipsets containing an (onbaord) Radeon HD 3300
6 > graphics chip.
7 >
8 > All of these run identical systems
9 > kernel 2.6.31-r4, xorg-server-1.6.5 and ati-drivers-9.10
10 >
11 > On one of these machines freezes after some hours with the
12 > following message in /var/log/messages
13 >
14 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [fglrx] ASIC hang happened
15 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Pid: 2698, comm: X Tainted: P W
16 > 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 #2
17 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Call Trace:
18 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa005b00c>] ?
19 > firegl_hardwareHangRecovery+0x1c/0x50 [fglrx]
20 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc459>] ?
21 > _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15ResetASICIfHungEv+0x9/0x10 [fglrx]
22 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc40c>] ?
23 > _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15WaitForCompleteEv+0x6c/0xb0 [fglrx]
24 > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cb414>] ?
25 > _ZN4Asic19PM4ElapsedTimeStampERK23PM4_TS_INTERRUPT_PARAMSj14_LARGE_INTEGER+
26 > 0x134/0x1c0 [fglrx]
27 >
28 > and so on.
29 >
30 > Shall I conclude that this motherboard is broken?
31 > Or is it bug in ati-drivers (not to recover from this).
32 >
33 > Is there a forum or mailing list to ask such specific questions
34 > about the ati-driver?
35
36 yes and no. phoronix forums has bridgman who is an ati guy involved with the
37 opensource drivers. mtippett was amd's manager of the fglrx gang but left the
38 job. Still a good place.
39
40 'numa-iii' did you enable numa options in your kernel? single socket amd
41 systems are not numa - and is your psu ok, nothing overheating?

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Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>