f17, kernel 3.7.x does not work w/ Seymour [AMD Radeon HD 6470M]

[Mark LaPierre]

On 02/17/2013 09:49 AM, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> Hello
> here is an Asus X73B w/ Seymour [AMD Radeon HD 6470M]
> When I boot with last kernel 3.7:
>
> Feb 17 00:33:46 tikal kernel: [    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.7.6-102.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg_tikal-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_tikal/lv_swap SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_tikal/lv_root KEYTABLE=it LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet
> Feb 17 00:38:54 tikal kernel: [    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg_tikal-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_tikal/lv_swap SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg_tikal/lv_root KEYTABLE=it LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet
>
> boot stops with balnk screen, when I boot with vmlinuz-3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64, all goes ok
>
> in messages i find more and more of this lines until I poweroff notebook:
>
> Feb 16 22:38:50 tikal kernel: [   78.004117] radeon 0000:01:00.0: couldn't schedule ib
> Feb 16 22:38:50 tikal kernel: [   78.004137] [drm:radeon_cs_ib_chunk] *ERROR* Failed to schedule IB !
>
> -m
>
>
>

This sounds quite similar to another string on this same mailing list.

The solution was to update the Nvidia driver.  Seems the previous 
version does not work with the current kernel.

If you're using the Nouveau driver then just forget I ever suggested this.

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