[rhn-users] drm i830 lockup error

[Lars Cedar]

I posted this to a similar thread, but here also for completeness.

Found the answer at last, and I share it here so that it may help others, 
though it's embarrassing to not have figured it out sooner (just to busy to 
have the epiphany).

Turns out that "[drm: i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space 131056 wanted 13106" 
means just what it says. Need space! I did not realize I had run out of 
space on my volume.

After booting from my RH9 disk one and selecting repair, I was able to 
navigate around and remove some unneeded files. When I rebooted, I was back 
in business.

I hope this helps others. Hopefully later versions of RH will warn a user 
that space is low before shutting down, giving one the opportunity to fix 
the problem before it occurs.

Cheers,
Lars


At 06:19 AM 9/2/2004, Lars Cedar wrote:
>Hi, similar problem here. No sign of black screen, but one day I tried to 
>boot up into RH Linux 9.0 on my dual-boot system and got that series of 
>errors. I've searched on the web, but I have not found a definitive solution.
>
>Anybody else run into this, know what to do?
>
>Thanks,
>Lars
>
>At 08:18 PM 3/2/2004, roosta at EECS.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I'm using Redhat linux 9.0 with kernel 2.4.20-6,and the screen went black 
>>without any reason.
>>When I tried to reboot, I get the error message, "drm i830 wait_ring 
>>error lockup space 31856"
>>
>>I have searched the redhat and other websties for a fix,but I couldn't 
>>find anything.
>>
>>Any help or pointer on how to fix the problem would be greatly appreiciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tanya
>>
>>
>>
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