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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 15:26:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: Instant Reboots (was: Re: Postgresql locks up server - no
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On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:07, Geoff Speicher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:34:49PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > Geoff Speicher wrote:
> > 
> > >FWIW, in mid-late July, my problems were not PREEMPTION-related.  I
> > >tried everything I could to get usable threaded apps under XFree86, but
> > >my Athlon XP rebooted every time I tried to run kdm, Firefox, etc.
> > >
> > >This included all four combinations of PREEMPTION and ULE/4BSD.  Rolling
> > >back to July 1 was the only thing that worked for me.
> > 
> > Yeah, the instant reboots have hit me too.  Disabling PREEMPTION did
> > seem to help this for me, but then it might have been a coincidence.
> > Incidentally, what video drivers are you using?
> 
> Snippets from /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> 
> (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.18) for chipsets: ati, ativga
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5159)
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
> (II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1
>         Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
> 
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver
> (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled

Does this happen without using threaded apps?  More specifically, does
it continue if you disable DRI in your X config?  If so, please send me
your dmesg.

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Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
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