[mousehouse]

Hello list,

After the 10.4.9 update my Mac will crash/halt when I walk away from it for an extended period of time. I never turn of my G5, and it is set to never sleep by itself (but turn of the display).

My PowerMac is a dual 2.3GHz G5, 3GB RAM and has a ATI X800XT Mac Edition AGP card. Never been this unstable... The panic.log shows something fishy in the ATI driver... Anybody have any clues? I have been unable to find anything related to my problem on Google and MacNN...

panic.log:

Sat Apr 7 14:31:56 2007


Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000040000138 PC=0x0000000000303E20
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x59A8BC80)
PC=0x00303E20; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x40000138; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x002D9380; R1=0x41AB3BA0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x002D9244 0x002D9380 0x002D9314 0x00A70B18 0x00A63E5C 0x002EC0CC
0x0008C744 0x0002921C 0x000233F8 0x000ABCAC 0x00000000
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFED1F0

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.1.8)@0xa5a000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x483000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.1)@0xa20000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.1)@0xa44000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x59A8BC80)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x59FADC80)
PC=0x9000B4C8; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x019C9608; DSISR=0x0A000000; LR=0x9000B41C; R1=0xBFFED1F0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.0: Thu Feb 22 20:54:07 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.17.14~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000952D8 0x000957F0 0x00026898 0x000A8004 0x000AB980
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x59A8BC80)
PC=0x00303E20; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x40000138; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x002D9380; R1=0x41AB3BA0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x002D9244 0x002D9380 0x002D9314 0x00A70B18 0x00A63E5C 0x002EC0CC
0x0008C744 0x0002921C 0x000233F8 0x000ABCAC 0x00000000
backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xBFFED1F0

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.1.8)@0xa5a000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x483000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.1)@0xa20000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.1)@0xa44000
Exception state (sv=0x59FADC80)
PC=0x9000B4C8; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x019C9608; DSISR=0x0A000000; LR=0x9000B41C; R1=0xBFFED1F0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00
*********

[Big Mac]

The panic is apparently related to your ATI GPU.

[mousehouse]

Thanks what I figured ;-)

Any clues on how I can fix this? Eg. anybody have the kext for 10.4.8 for me?

[Big Mac]

Sorry, didn't bother reading your self-diagnosis. I'll look to see if I have an X800 driver lying around.

[mousehouse]

There is a driver on the ATI site, but it is 1,5 year old - I really don't feel like installing something that old. If anybody cares to extract the 10.4.8 version, that would be nice.

Also, this is probably a FAQ, but where can I report this to Apple? I've used the crashreporter about 10 times by now ;-)

[pxlfxr]

Recently aquired Quad G5 with Nvdia card. Ran combined update from 10.4 to 10.4.9
Energy setting at highest performance and never sleep computer or drives. If it sleeps it will not wake up. If left for a long period it crashes with a similar message as noted in this thread.
I will capture complete info later but wondered if anyone has the problem is 10.4.8?
Any other ideas welcome.

[mousehouse]

I didn't have this issue with 10.4.8, which is quite annoying. I changed some ATI files to 10.3 ones from the ATI driver CD and still have crashes, this time often with Firewire errors. Not sure what is wrong but I will do a 10.4.8 install soon...