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It's the Big Kernel Lock, a lock on all the kernel that a code section could have acquired exclusively. The usage of the BKL has been removed from all the kernel code two versions ago, and Linux...

Sorry, OT

You know... you really don't run an SQLite database server...

Mauro Carvalho Chehab himself has written:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.devel/18623

I think my money just told goodbye to Primal Carnage.

Kano, isn't the ATI proprietary driver reusing more components in the Linux's graphics stack than the Nvidia driver? Could it be that, since more of the code path is preserved between Nvidia's...

I think it's a full week job for a competent developer porting and testing all the automatically/manually SSE optimized code to an x87 path.

Nowadays, x87 code isn't produced by any compiler.
You...

Thanks, I didn't rehash it in my post, but I imagined it was like that for mobile radeons, and desktop parts. I was just laughing on my own, thinking at an overheating r5xx, upping its frequencies to...

Thank you agd5f, I actually thought the r5xx ASICs (desktop variants included) offered some sort of advanced power management (operating frequency, voltage, suspending parts of the ASIC, ...),...

(this would have been an edit, but we already know...)

edit: sorry, agd5f, one more thing: how do these chips control the card's power states? I'm easily induced in imagining solutions like these...

As all the cool kids already knew (we all are, right?), your dmesg lacks the following DRM_INFO() line:

[drm] radeon: power management initialized

I think that's because, as agd5f already...

Yup, that.

And... you didn't post the output of "dmesg | grep -i drm" too. ;-)
But I think agd5f already nailed the issue.

You have to be sure you're running a 2.6.35 or newer kernel, and you have to NOT be passing the radeon.dynpm parameter, or else modprobe won't be able to load the radeon module (both automatically OR...

Ok, I don't have much time to build other kernels, so I'm just asking:

am I the only one to experience whole system hangs, as long as I'm not pressing keys (creating hw interrupts?) during the...

Do you have any issues with disabled compositing in Kwin?
And, what with enabled xrender compositing?

That's just to exclude any other component than Mesa from consideration.

Don't you think that AMD fglrx developers could routinely test new things in their unreleased driver, and release it only once they are deemed as stable?

That's just the first idea that touched my...

Wow. :)



That's what DRI2 wich is available in KMS is for. You told us that the UMS stack gave you tearing issues.



As I stated already, you did bring up four observations, some of which...

You made four observations to the KMS stack on your hardware:

KMS has DRM powermanagement, which works on your hardware.
Further advancements in DRM PM will only be available in KMS...

Sorry, but, are you complaining (with whom?) because you really thought that the old Mesa OpenGL model driver for r600+ was already done, optimized and all? By the time I'm seeing your nickname here...

OpenGL compositing?

And Opera too!
Don't forget Opera ...even if I never use it. :D