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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:01:18
Message-Id: tkrat.1e0e48285bf28c40@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers' expert sought by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 5 Nov, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I have 4 nearly identical machines (same brand and model of motherbaord)
6 >> with AMD 790GX + SB750 Chipsets containing an (onbaord) Radeon HD 3300
7 >> graphics chip.
8 >>
9 >> All of these run identical systems
10 >> kernel 2.6.31-r4, xorg-server-1.6.5 and ati-drivers-9.10
11 >>
12 >> On one of these machines freezes after some hours with the
13 >> following message in /var/log/messages
14 >>
15 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [fglrx] ASIC hang happened
16 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Pid: 2698, comm: X Tainted: P W
17 >> 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 #2
18 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Call Trace:
19 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa005b00c>] ?
20 >> firegl_hardwareHangRecovery+0x1c/0x50 [fglrx]
21 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc459>] ?
22 >> _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15ResetASICIfHungEv+0x9/0x10 [fglrx]
23 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc40c>] ?
24 >> _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15WaitForCompleteEv+0x6c/0xb0 [fglrx]
25 >> Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cb414>] ?
26 >> _ZN4Asic19PM4ElapsedTimeStampERK23PM4_TS_INTERRUPT_PARAMSj14_LARGE_INTEGER+
27 >> 0x134/0x1c0 [fglrx]
28 >>
29 >> and so on.
30 >>
31 >> Shall I conclude that this motherboard is broken?
32 >> Or is it bug in ati-drivers (not to recover from this).
33 >>
34 >> Is there a forum or mailing list to ask such specific questions
35 >> about the ati-driver?
36 >
37 > yes and no. phoronix forums has bridgman who is an ati guy involved with the
38 > opensource drivers. mtippett was amd's manager of the fglrx gang but left the
39 > job. Still a good place.
40 >
41 > 'numa-iii' did you enable numa options in your kernel? single socket amd
42 > systems are not numa - and is your psu ok, nothing overheating?
43 >
44 No, I didn't enable 'numa'.
45 What, please, is 'psu' ?
46 I've checked the cpu/board temperature, nothing unusual.
47 The 'freeze' occur while only a screensaver was active.
48
49 Thanks,
50 Helmut.
51
52 --
53 Helmut Jarausch
54
55 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
56 RWTH - Aachen University
57 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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