From time to time, I get a *HUGE* *LOT* of the following messages: May 25 08:29:48 blatt [drm:via_cmdbuf_wait] *ERROR* via_cmdbuf_wait timed out hw 1fb300 cur_addr 17b300 next_addr 1fb402 When I get those messages, the system becomes unworkably slow. I'm not yet quite sure what's causing these messages, but when I get those messages, I usually had the notebook running unattendedly for some time. On the upstream bugtracker, I found https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1157219&group_id=102048&atid=630967 which implied that the via_agp kernel module isn't loaded. That's not true for my system - or maybe it is, but then it would have been unloaded automatically while X was running. When I get these messages, the "hw", "cur_addr" and "next_addr" addresses do NOT change over a run. Ie.,at May 25, I had: May 25 08:29:48 blatt [drm:via_cmdbuf_wait] *ERROR* via_cmdbuf_wait timed out hw 1fb300 cur_addr 17b300 next_addr 1fb402 So, at May 25, I always had "1fb300", "17b300" and "1fb402". A few days ago, I had: May 14 09:26:30 blatt [drm:via_cmdbuf_wait] *ERROR* via_cmdbuf_wait timed out hw 6f000 cur_addr 400 next_addr 80502 etc.pp. I'm using alexander@blatt /var/log $ uname -a Linux blatt 2.6.16-suspend2-r6.043.security-models #1 PREEMPT Sat May 20 19:48:42 CEST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz GNU/Linux on a Gentoo Linux system with xorg-server 1.0.2 from xorg.freedesktop.org. I reported this bug upstream - see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1494834&group_id=102048&atid=630967 alexander@blatt /HD/share/Linkstation/Pakete/Debian $ emerge --info Portage 2.1_rc2-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-suspend2-r6.043.security-models i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r6.043.security-models i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ " LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/build" PORTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/Portage/local-tree/misc /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/nx /usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acpi alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash cairo caps cardbus ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cle266 cli crypt css curlwrappers dbus devmap dillo divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread emoticon esd exif fam fbcon fbdev firefox fping freetype gdbm gif gnokii gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hpn icc id3 idn imap imlib imlib2 insecure-drivers insecure-savers isdnlog javascript jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libedit libwww linuxthreads-tls logrotate lynxkeymap mad madwifi maildir matroska mbox mmx mmxext mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer multicall ncurses netboot network new-login nfs nis nls no-old-linux no-suexec noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsf nobsh nocd nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nogg nogulm nojsch nojython nolog4j nomac nooro nopri norhino noxalan noxerces nozaptel nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openssh pam_console pam_timestamp passfile password patented pccts pcmcia pcre perl perlsuid pic player png pnp pppd qt quicktime rar readline real recode reflection reiserfs sdl sendfile sensord session sftp sms spell spf spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream subp subtitles suid symlink sysfs syslog tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev underscores unichrome unicode unsafe usb utf8 uudeview vim vim-pager vlm vorbis wifi win32codecs wma123 x11vnc xinetd xml xmms xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_-synaptics kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Which driver is this all about? I don't think that the unichrome thing is in portage at all...
(In reply to comment #1) > Which driver is this all about? I don't think that the unichrome thing is in > portage at all... Hm. What answer do you expect? alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg $ emerge -vpt x11-base/x11-drm x11-base/xorg-server x11-drivers/xf86-video-via These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-via-0.1.33.2 USE="-debug dri" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 USE="-debug dri -ipv6 -minimal xprint" 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -mach64 -mga -nv -r128 -radeon -savage -sis -tdfx via" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Is that what you needed to know? I'll attach my xorg.conf, if that helps.
Created attachment 87464 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I now reported this to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7034 as well, after the bug got closed on the unichrome tracker @ sf.net.
(In reply to comment #4) > I now reported this to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7034 as > well, after the bug got closed on the unichrome tracker @ sf.net. > Alright, we'll track it there, thanks. It's possible this is fixed in kernel 2.6.17, if you ever want to give that a shot.
