[ltp] System hang when viewing videos

[Phil Shotton]

Checkout build install - that one works fine. I seem  to be getting more 
cursor artifacts (line at the bottom of the cursor block) but that could 
just be my imagination.
I'll stick with this a while and see how it goes.
Cheres
Phil

Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Phil Shotton <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> OK, did a checkout of xf86-video-ati from 08/03/2008 - all working
>>  normally again now. Somewhere between then and now something went bad :-(
>>
>>     
>
> If you could do a git bisect, that would be great, but I think I know
> which commit it is.
> Does reverting: c2b1c8b706a6c7c1fd0af80091958473133d54e7
> fix it?
>
> Alex
>
>   
>>  Phil
>>
>>
>>
>>  Phil Shotton wrote:
>>  > I pulled the latest xf86-video-ati and drm, built and installed. Now
>>  > my second monitor goes blank when I do:
>>  >
>>  >    xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS
>>  >
>>  > It works fine in clone mode, but after running the above the
>>  > background is black, and no windows show. The mouse cursor is still
>>  > visible though.
>>  > This is a bug in xf86-video-ati - I reverted the drm lib to the gutsy
>>  > version and I still have the problem.
>>  > How do I pull a known date from git so I can go back to the working
>>  > version?
>>  >
>>  > Cheers
>>  > Phil
>>  >
>>  > Alex Deucher wrote:
>>  >> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Phil Shotton
>>  >> <phil@stairbridge.org.uk> wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>> I've been experiencing complete lockups when viewing some videos or
>>  >>> DVDs.
>>  >>>  Not all video formats are affected, but I've not been able to make any
>>  >>>  judgement as to which work and which don't. Even ones that work will
>>  >>>  usually freeze the system if run full-screen.
>>  >>>
>>  >>>  I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy with all updates on a Thinkpad T60p with ATI
>>  >>>  Mobility FireGL V5250.
>>  >>>  Using the ATI (radeon) driver - built off git as of 2008-03-06.
>>  >>>  Hang happens using mplayer and Movie Player. Usually the screen just
>>  >>>  freezes and sound loops, everything locked solid. SysRq special keys
>>  >>>  don't work, the only cure is power-off reboot. Sometimes the mouse
>>  >>>  continues to move but nothing else!
>>  >>>
>>  >>>  I suspect ati driver / hardware incompatibility that's only exposed
>>  >>> with
>>  >>>  movies. Anyone else suffered this.
>>  >>>
>>  >>
>>  >> If you are using the recently added textured video adapter, you may
>>  >> run into issues with the MMIO path on r5xx.  Grab and install the
>>  >> latest drm sources
>>  >> (http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary).  If the
>>  >> driver is using the CP path, textured video should work pretty well.
>>  >> I haven't gotten a chance to debug the issues with the MMIO paths yet.
>>  >>  Also, you'll probably want to update xf86-video-ati as well if you
>>  >> want to use textured video.
>>  >>
>>  >> Alex
>>  >>
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