Re: Kernels since 2.5.60 upto 2.5.67 freeze when X server

[Steven Cole]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:25, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:41:48 EDT, Joseph Fannin said:
> 
> >     Except that I'm seeing the very same sort of freeze on with a
> >  Rage128 card with XFree86 4.2.1.
> > 
> >     Are we all Debian sid users, perhaps?
> 
> Nice try, but I'm seeing it on a RedHat 9-ish laptop with this card:
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3)
> 
> using XFree86 4.3.0 and the binary NVidia 4191 driver.  I hadn't posted because
> I figured it was an NVidia problem and tainted  quite thoroughly.
> 
> Another data point:  I *dont* see this sort of freeze if I start it with
> 'NvAGP=1' (use internal agp), but I *do* see it with 'NvAGP=2' or '3'
> (which tell it to use the kernel 'agpgart' code).
> 
> Sorry Dave, looks like a bug in AGP....

Yet another data point.  I've seen this with RedHat 9 and i810 and
2.5.67+. I've haven't had time to test without AGP yet

I could avoid the freeze by starting X with "startx". Then, when going
back to runlevel 3, the freeze did _not_ occur. 

I saw the freeze when selecting "Log Out" from either KDE or Gnome, but
only if I started X with /sbin/init 5.

Occasionally and with 2.5.67-mm1 only, instead of a freeze, I saw a
spontaneous reboot.

I'm many miles from that test box now but if I get the chance I'll test
without AGP.

Steven