Comment 29 for bug 658538

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Michal Adamczyk (szemkel) wrote :

When looking to find if i get the same psmouse.c messages in syslog, I found that my problem is not really related to mouse.

In syslog i found:
v 17 12:39:27 stallman kernel: [ 1192.667644] [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* DVI-I-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505818] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 188
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505824] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* Raw EDID:
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505829] <3>ff 3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 7f 7f 3f 3f 3f 3f .??.??????..????
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505832] <3>3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f 3f ??????.?????????
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505835] <3>3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 7f 7f 3f 3f 3f 7f 7f 3f ??.??.??..???..?
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505838] <3>3f 3f 7f 7f 3f 3f 7f 3f 7f 3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 3f 3f ??..??.?.??.????
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505840] <3>7f 3f 3f 7f 3f 3f 7f 7f 7f 3f 7f 3f 7f 7f 7f 7f .??.??...?.?....
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505843] <3>7f 7f 7f 3f 3f 3f 7f 7f 3f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 3f ...???..?......?
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505846] <3>7d 3f 7f 7f 7f 7d 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f }?...}..........
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505848] <3>7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 3f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f 7f ........?.......
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.505850]
Nov 17 12:39:39 stallman kernel: [ 1204.588940] [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* DVI-I-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID

every 12 seconds.
So it apears that is ANOTHER RADEON BUG.

Partial walkaround this problem is to change video drivers in xorg.conf to vesa. It causes the freezes to get much shorter and almost unnoticable. However it didn;t change a thing with the drm crashing.