Re: i810 server lockup with kde/freebsd

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Yury Tarasievich wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm not too sure this question belongs exactly here... If somebody's
> subscribed to more appropriate maillist, please re-post it there...
> 
> I have a machine with i815. When powered by FreeBSD
> 4.6/4.6.2/4.7-RELEASES (kernel GENERIC) and XFree86 4.2.0/4.2.1
> (different combinations, both X packages from FreeBSD port and
> compiled by myself) I hit a problem using KDE of different 3.0.*
> series (3.0.0-some-beta/3.0.2/3.0.3) (both KDE and QT 3.0.3/3.0.5 were
> also tried in different combinations of "official" ports and self-made
> ports).
> 
> The problem is: when starting KDE (splash screen with flashing icons
> active) AND switching to text-console, I get KDE crash and X restart.
> The same thing (judging by logs) happens without any clear regularity
> when KDE is left in background (working in text-console), KDE
> screensaver and power saving (what I tried) can be on/off in different
> combinations. The same happens even if I have other window manager
> running and run only KDE application.
> 
> So the problem is clearly in KDE/QT/FreeBSD domain but should X react
> so dramatically??

Good question.  Presumably they tickle a bug somewhere.

> I run X from xdm/kdm. I'm attaching excerpts from xfree86.0.log and
> kdm.log (xdm is similar in output, don't have one at hand)

In your logs we see:

===============8<===============
pgetbl_ctl: 0x21001 pgetbl_err: 0x19
ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0
LP ring tail: 8 head: 0 len: 0 start 0
eir: 0 esr: 10 emr: 3d
instdone: ff7b instpm: 0
memmode: 24 instps: 0
hwstam: 9ac7 ier: 0 imr: 9ac7 iir: 0
space: 65520 wanted 65528

Fatal server error:
lockup
===============8<===============

A few of us have seen problems like this with i810 and Linux.  Those can
be made to go away under linux by with:

	Option "XaaNoSolidFillRect" "On"

Obviously YMMV with FreeBSD, but it would be worth trying.

HTH,
Neale.