Bug#354221: xserver-xorg: confirming freezes with radeon driver
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:06 +0200, Tom Fernandes wrote:
>
> I mainly found the freezes occuring when using firefox - sometimes even
> at the exact same point. From what I heard firefox uses acceleration.
> This might be related to #319263.
Very unlikely, as that's about a different brand of hardware.
> But in gerneal the system freezes now and then.
>
> So I set "NoAccel" to "true" and since then I didn't experience a single
> freeze. Before I had at least 1-2 freezes a day and I didn't experience
> any freeze for about 2 weeks now.
>
> Uncommenting DRI or GLX didn't work for me AFAIR - I think I tried all
> possible combination of disabling the one and enabling the other or
> disabling them alltogether.
The symptoms you describe would be very unusual with the DRI disabled.
Please double-check this.
> There's another bugreport which might be related:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6429
Indeed, and you may note that it's in state 'RESOLVED FIXED'. Please try
current xf86-video-ati git.
Also note that Debian #366114 actually refers to this, and indeed it's
probably a better match for you, as it's also about an RV100 derivative.
For those interested in #354221, the same suggestions (disable the DRI
or try xf86-video-ati git) are still valid, as the same problem happened
to affect both RV100 and R300 derivatives.
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