Bug 12678

Summary: Kernel locks up when loading X with Radeon DRI
Product: Drivers Reporter: Tom Stellard (tstellar)
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel)Assignee: drivers_video-dri
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.29-rc4 Subsystem:
Regression: --- Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: error log from /var/log/messages

Description Tom Stellard 2009-02-09 06:32:23 UTC
Latest working kernel version: 2.6.29-rc3
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.29-rc4
Distribution: Gentoo
Hardware Environment: Thinkpad R51e ATI Radeon xpress 200m graphics card
Software Environment:
Problem Description:
After booting, my system locks up right as X begins to load.  My system worked fine with 2.6.29-rc3. 
I did a git bisect and this is the bad commit:
86adf8adfcb3d3f4b6c30aeb40da480da02de1d1

Steps to reproduce:
Boot machine with kernel 2.6.29-rc4
Comment 1 Tom Stellard 2009-02-09 06:34:10 UTC
Created attachment 20167 [details]
error log from /var/log/messages
Comment 2 Tom Stellard 2009-02-12 03:21:00 UTC
I just tried the latest git version:
2.6.29-rc4-00810-g4c098bc

This bug appears to be fixed.