Re: ATI Radeon M6 LY in Edgy - does some crashing - how do I debug?

On 11/1/06, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> My assumption about the prefix thing was wrong, I guess, but I've got the
> stuff backed up anyway. It seemed to install in modules/multimedia as
> well, but since I only patched the radeon_driver.so file, and this source
>  from the same version as was already installed, there really should be no
> affects.

yup.  that's the gatos stuff.  all you really had to back up in this
case was radeon_drv.so.

Alex

>
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:39:14 -0500, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > OK, I've backed up /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, as it does contain
> > lots of .so drivers, including radeon. I'm assuming ./configure
> > --prefix=/usr will actually copy drivers to /usr, not /usr/lib/blabla.
> >
> > On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:08:49 -0500, Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/31/06, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I'm having issues. I've downloaded the source for
> >>> xserver-xorg-video-ati
> >>>  from Ubuntu repos, applied the patch, and ran:
> >>>
> >>> ./configure
> >>> make
> >>>
> >>> No .so files were created in any folders. Did I do something wrong?
> >>
> >> The final .so files don't get linked until you run make install.  By
> >> default the drivers default to /usr/local, so you have to change the
> >> prefix to intall in /usr
> >>
> >> first back up your old drivers (they should be in
> >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers or there abouts).
> >>
> >> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> >> make
> >> make install
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:30:18 -0500, Alex Deucher
> >>> <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > On 10/31/06, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >> Does this mean compiling? I mean, I'm OK with that, as long as it
> >>> >> doesn't
> >>> >> require tons of configuring, and, most importantly, it compiles and
> >>> runs
> >>> >> correctly. :)
> >>> >>
> >>> >> If I have to compile, I'm hoping there's a way to fully remove it,
> >>> so I
> >>> >> can reinstall the standard version through Edgy repos.
> >>> >>
> >>> >
> >>> > You might want to check and see if Edgy already includes the fix in
> >>> > question
> >>> >
> >>> (http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git;a=blobdiff;h=6d6270187e048138463c6b913449083b2c8ad355;hp=03d1e8972b689150c59619762674f07b8ca356cf;hb=10ba4f0a435d7c1ed9f4a36a8d607f0f0b63be30;f=src/radeon_driver.c)
> >>> > If not then you can just grab the ati-1-0-branch from the ati git
> >>> tree
> >>> > and and build the new driver.  just back up your copies of
> >>> > radeon_drv.so, ati_drv.so, r128_drv.so and atimisc_drv.so and you can
> >>> > revert them.
> >>> >
> >>> > Alex
> >>> >
> >>> >> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:20:48 -0500, Alex Deucher
> >>> <[email protected]>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > On 10/31/06, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >> >> Does anyone have any ideas? Please? I really want stable 3D.
> >>> *sniff*
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > You might try the radeon ddx from ati git head or the ati stable
> >>> >> > branch.  There was a patch for lockups on M6s related to aperture
> >>> >> > stuff that went in a while back.  I would have assumed edgy
> >>> picked it
> >>> >> > up, but...
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Alex
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:18:56 -0500, Jacob
> >>> <[email protected]>
> >>> >> >> wrote:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> > My ATI Readon M6 LY has never been stable, and it isn't any
> >>> more
> >>> >> >> stable
> >>> >> >> > now with Edgy, either. Mostly crashes come with static across
> >>> areas
> >>> >> >> that
> >>> >> >> > scroll, sometimes without freezing at all. Sometimes crashes
> >>> come
> >>> >> with
> >>> >> >> > stripes across the screen, mostly vertical, with the screen
> >>> fading
> >>> >> to
> >>> >> >> > something like negative, and then to white, sometimes "snapping
> >>> >> out of
> >>> >> >> > it" with the screen going back to normal. Most of the time I
> >>> have
> >>> >> to
> >>> >> >> > reboot, however.
> >>> >> >> >
> >>> >> >> > I've pasted complete logs and configurations for that boot
> >>> below.
> >>> >> >> You'll
> >>> >> >> > notice in the xorg.conf, I commented options that I think make
> >>> my
> >>> >> >> system
> >>> >> >> > more stable, but am not really sure. The crash that belongs to
> >>> >> these
> >>> >> >> > logs are the one ith the screen fading to something like
> >>> negative,
> >>> >> and
> >>> >> >> > then to white. The computer had frozen, but I was able to go
> >>> >> through
> >>> >> >> the
> >>> >> >> > Alt+SysRq+S, Alt+SysRq+U, Alt+SysRq+B procedure to reboot
> >>> safely.
> >>> >> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> --
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> >>> >> Jacob
> >>> >>
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> >>>
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> >
> >
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