I don't normally see the early part of the boot sequence, but today I caught something and decided to look deeper. In /var/log/boot.msg I find <6>[ 1.726463] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 <6>[ 1.882467] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting. <6>[ 1.882473] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. <3>[ 1.882599] fb: conflicting fb hw usage radeondrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic dr iver <6>[ 1.883552] radeon 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 <6>[ 1.883580] radeon 0000:01:00.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 <6>[ 1.883598] radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 <7>[ 1.883611] radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 <6>[ 1.887134] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV380 0x1002:0x5460). <6>[ 1.887640] [drm] register mmio base: 0xC8100000 <6>[ 1.887645] [drm] register mmio size: 65536 <6>[ 1.889589] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory <6>[ 1.889603] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000D0000000 - 0x00000000D7FFFFFF ( 64M used) <6>[ 1.889613] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000B0000000 - 0x00000000CFFFFFFF <7>[ 1.889708] radeon 0000:01:00.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X <6>[ 1.889721] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI. <6>[ 1.889766] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. <6>[ 1.896415] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M <6>[ 1.896424] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR <6>[ 1.902149] [drm] radeon: 64M of VRAM memory ready <6>[ 1.902159] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. <6>[ 1.902202] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 <6>[ 1.904701] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 Z pipes initialized. <6>[ 1.908274] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0xD0040000). <6>[ 1.908324] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled <6>[ 1.908458] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode <6>[ 1.913683] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000B0001000 <3>[ 2.129149] [drm:r100_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring test failed (sracth(0x15E4)=0xC AFEDEAD) <3>[ 2.129168] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* radeon: cp isn't working (-22). <3>[ 2.129181] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failled initializing CP (-22). <3>[ 2.129192] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration <3>[ 2.345155] [drm:r100_cp_fini] *ERROR* Wait for CP idle timeout, shutting down CP. <4>[ 2.560986] Failed to wait GUI idle while programming pipes. Bad things might happen. <6>[ 2.561169] [drm] radeon: cp finalized Well, there is it "Failed to wait GUI idle while programming pipes. Bad things might happen" Yes, bad things do happen. A variety of them. Most common is the machine freezing, probably a GPU related panic. No panic message in the logs, just freeze. Sometimes the cursor freezes as well. Sometimes its preceded by what I can only call 'reticulation', if you know the effect on photographic emulsion -- a sort of overlay of green pixelation that renders things unreadable. Sometimes, not always. The freeze is often total, the laptop doesn't respond to pings. But not always. And sometimes I can ssh in and do a proper shutdown. But most of the time it takes the hardware OFF button to fix. Software or hardware? I'm using Linux BigBoy 2.6.37.6-0.5-pae #1 SMP 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux lsmod tells me 'radeon' and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf says 'Driver "radeon"' When things work they work OK. -- "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org