On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:14:31PM -0500, John Gotts wrote: > I have a similar configuration, an ASUS A7V8X with the Matrox G550. I'm > running Red Hat Linux 9 now. 8 was the first operating system on the machine. > With every 8 kernel and the first few 9 kernels the machine completely froze > about once a week. With the past few 9 kernel updates the X server just > freezes with the following: > > ioctl(8, 0x4008642a, 0xbfffe388) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) What is fd 8 in this case? If it is /dev/dri/*, then that is DRM_LOCK which I have also had problems with. In my case, I am able to go to a VT and kill the application which gives me the X server back. I guess that this happens during mga_dma_flush but don't see where exactly. It happens during exiting quake2 for me nearly every time. > Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc., doesn't work. You must ssh in and reboot. > > I don't think this problem has anything to do with direct rendering, because > the X wedge has occurred during, for example, the starwars screensaver and has > even occurred while normally interacting with the machine. Can you post some more details like your /proc/pci, server log, and hardware configuration of your system including what is attached to what port on the matrox card? -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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