diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 4/10/09, xorquewasp at googlemail.com <xorquewasp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-04-10 13:31:33, Robert Noland wrote:
>>
>> If it is locking the whole system, then a core is really our best shot.
>> If you can extract anything useful from xorg.log or setting
>> hw.dri.0.debug that also might be of use.
>>
>> I'm running on 2 cores, but it is possible that some locking issue
>> exists.  All of the driver specific ioctls are run under a lock though.
>>
>> robert.
>
> Ok. I've re-enabled drm.ko and radeon.ko and am running X. I'll leave
> the system under load and let you know when it inevitably locks up...
>
> cheers,

If it locks under X11 then use debug.debugger_on_panic=0 sysctl.
Not doing this will increase drasticaly chances of locking whole system
and not providing any debug data.


-- 
Paul