https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66963
--- Comment #192 from Paul Bodenbenner paul.bodenbenner@gmail.com --- (In reply to comment #190)
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You might also try my 3.14 branch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=drm-next-3.14
Not sure if there are any important changes in this branch, but so far it looks more stable for me. I haven't seen hangs while video was played, though the week before i got them almost daily. And have seen hand during start up only once for last week.
I might be just very lucky this week.
Still don't see hangs, but noticed but FPS is very low on this branch. Half Life is like a slideshow, though works fine with vanilla kernel.
Are you sure you have acceleration enabled, the behaviour you describe matches what I found when started testing that branch (grep dmesg for "*ERROR* radeon: ring 3 test failed (0xCAFEDEAD)").
If you have that problem you could test the patch I sent in comment 175 ( attachment 91835 [details] [review]), It will skip initialization of the DMA ring and enable acceleration again. I've been using it for several weeks, no hangs yet, works like a charm.
Thanks for your patch! I adapted it to the current git state and I will attach it here (hope I made no mistake ;-)). So with that patch the drm-next-3.14 branch works very well: Booted up about 25 times with only 3 hangs. Suspend worked every time. :-)
@Alex Deucher: Very good job! Whats wrong with ring stuff. Do we need a new version of xf86-video-ati?! Also can I do anything against the seldom hangs?
Best Regards, Paul