On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 23:29 -0800, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > My OS is an up-to-date version of Fedora 7 on a Intel based PC. > > I use a particular academic/scientific video rendering software VMD > ( http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ ). > This software uses GLX/Mesa heavily. > > My day-to-day window manager is XFCE. When I use VMD, it immediately > freezes keyboard/mouse on my console as soon as any video rendering > activity occurs. The typical error message in /var/log/messages is: > > kernel: [drm:i915_wait_irq] *ERROR* i915_wait_irq: EBUSY -- > rec: 147447 emitted: 147473 That would be a bug in either the kernel driver for the 915, or in the Mesa 3d driver. > Eventually I solved the problem: I disabled XFree86-DRI in the file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If disabling DRI fixes it and you still perceive the software to be usable, it must not be using GL that heavily... - ajax -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
