Bugzilla – Bug 115543
gl-117 game locks up system tighter than a tick
Last modified: 2006-06-15 08:21:04 UTC
Just for grins I was fooling around with games on my suse 10.0 beta4 system, and the gl-117 air combat game starts up OK and does its calibration, then when it is through with that, as soon as I move the cursor over one of the "buttons" on the screen, my system freezes up solid, only the reset button can recover. The open GL chess interface also seems to have problems, but it doesn't freeze the system, it merely dies as soon as I try to start a game. I don't consider these problems, since I'm not actually interested in running any open GL stuff, but I thought someone might like to know. Possibly relevant information: The is an old 850MHZ PIII system with a cheap (but fairly new) ATI 9200 agp graphics card running at 1280x768 resolution on a widescreen format LCD display. The motherboard is an old abit BE6 II motherboard with a 440 BX chipset.
*** Bug 115542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Probably it's a DRI driver problem. Please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of "glxinfo". Thanks.
Created attachment 49120 [details] The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
Created attachment 49121 [details] The output from running glxinfo
Created attachment 49125 [details] Xorg.0.log file from the crash session I renamed the log files to get a nice fresh one, ran the gl-117 program till the system freeze, hit the reset button, booted "safe" mode, copied the Xorg.0.log file, then booted again normally. This is that copy, so it should be as much of the log as made it to disk before the system froze up.
Thanks. Unfortunately I can't find anything in the X.Org logfile. Maybe we'll find sth. in the kernel logfile "/var/log/messages" related to the crash.
Created attachment 49140 [details] /var/log/messages from around the time of system freeze Here is the /var/log/message file, starting from the clean boot I did just before running gl-117 and going through the reboot to safe mode after the system freeze. The only suspicious thing I see is a message about modprobe failure on sonypi that may have happened right around the time of the system freeze. It probably isn't too significant though, because I see the same message on subsequent boots as well when I've had no opengl usage or crashes.
There's nothing suspicious in this file. Looks like the system freezes silently. :-(
As "workaround" for now you could try to get the ATI "fglrx" driver working. http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/x11/index.html ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/ATI/ati-installer-HOWTO.html
I set this to Minor since gl-117 is no longer in our default selection. It has been replaced by xmoto.
Could you test with 10.1 again? Thanks.
Any news on this one?
Since there is no feedback available, let's assume this has been fixed with the new radeon driver in SUSE 10.1. Feel free to reopen, if it isn't.