Re: i810 crashes when switching bewteen X and text console

I dont Know abt the bug but you can use the VESA genric driver instead of
i810. I will crash anymore. U have to specify this in XF86Config file.

On 6/14/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've found a problem with XFree 4.6 on the Dell Optiplex GX110, which has
> an Intel i810E graphics chipset (i810 module). It worked well in XFree86
> 4.5.
>
> X startx normally, but when switching back to text console and again to X
> server,
> the screen becomes dark and the text consoles become unusable too.
> The system doesn't crash and I can see this in /var/log/XFree86.0.log
>
> Fatal server error:
> EnterVT failed for screen 0
>
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
>
> Error in I810WaitLpRing(), now is 61278, start is 59277
> pgetbl_ctl: 0x1bc0001 pgetbl_err: 0x0
> ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0
> LP ring tail: 8 head: 0 len: 0 start 0
> eir: 0 esr: 0 emr: 3d
> instdone: ff7b instpm: 0
> memmode: 4 instps: 0
> hwstam: 9ac7 ier: 0 imr: 9ac7 iir: 0
> space: 65520 wanted 65528
> (II) I810(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) I810(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xc89e2000 at 0x4061c000
>
> FatalError re-entered, aborting
> lockup
>
>
> The following lines can be found in the dmesg :
>
> [drm] Using v1.4 init.
> [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 65512 wanted 65528
> [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
> [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* space: 65504 wanted 65528
> [drm:i810_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
> mtrr: base(0xf8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
>
>
> The only solution I found to avoid it was this option for the i810 device
> :
>
> Option "DRI" "no"
>
> I noted this problem with XFree 4.6.0 + patches 1-7.
>
> Loïc, Toulouse, France




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