Re: Re: intel 845 support

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, [ISO-8859-2] Maróy Ákos wrote:
[...]
> >Error in I830WaitLpRing(), now is 13819, start is 11818
> >pgetbl_ctl: 0xffe0001 pgetbl_err: 0x49
> >ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0
> >LP ring tail: 8 head: 0 len: 0 start 0
> >eir: 0 esr: 10 emr: ff7b
> >instdone: ffc0 instpm: 0
> >memmode: 0 instps: 0
> >hwstam: ffff ier: 0 imr: ffff 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 0xd09b6000 at 0x40013000
> >
> >Fatal server error:
> >lockup
> >
> >I could send the whole log, but it's rather long. Anyway, what could be 
> >the problem? Is there support for this card under Linux?
> 
> Very commonly reported bug.  Someone reports it to me about once 
> every couple of days.  I don't have any i8x0 video hardware to 
> test with however.  The problem is widely reported so I figured 
> it was just due to the developmental state of current CVS, and 
> that it will be addressed by someone before the final release.
> 
> If need be, I can provide gobs of bug reports to anyone who has 
> the hardware and is interested in taking a poke at fixing it.

Perhaps start by looking at the code which is disabled/bypassed by:

	Option	"XaaNoSolidFillRect"	"On"

in the i810 driver, as that option makes the problem go away for many of
us.

HTH,
Neale.