https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73848
--- Comment #14 from Marti Raudsepp marti@juffo.org --- (In reply to comment #13)
Also, the fact that disabling audio on a newer kernel doesn't break things
If I disable audio, shouldn't the Radeon HDMI ALSA device disappear? That didn't happen for me when I set radeon.audio=0. Am I doing something wrong?
The audio hardware doesn't interact with the memory controller (or 3D engine for that matter) so I don't really see how it could cause a GPU page fault.
Could it be a timing issue? Audio init delays startup enough that it doesn't hit some races anymore?
A broken system sometimes managed to recover after coming back from suspend, though rarely.