Bug#550977: memory corruption with the radeon dri driver

[Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>]

Hi Julien,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:27:29PM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Dave Airlie spotted some bugs in the radeon dri driver in mesa, that
> might explain the memory (and filesystem) corruption you have been
> seeing.
> 
> Packages including his fixes for these bugs are available in
> experimental, could you please install libgl1-mesa-dri and
> libgl1-mesa-glx from there (version 7.7-1), and see if the corruption is
> still reproducible?

I installed those packages. Unfortunately, I can't tell if that fixed
the original problem yet. I tried to put some stress on the GL implementation
which most of the time lead to a total system lockup. There is still
file system corruption but this could stem from the crashes just as well.

Light OpenGL apps seem to run fine. Originally, I ran into the problem
whenever xscreensaver activated. I will just let it run over the rest
of the night and see if that causes a crash as well.

Greetings, Torsten