Re: Bug#720329: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Screen keeping black at start but for the cursor
Michel Dänzer wrote:
>BTW, if you or anyone else having stability issues with radeon KMS in
>AGP mode could try if the attached kernel patch makes a difference, that
>would be interesting.
Hi Michel,
The patch made no difference to me I'm afraid. It still crashed with agpmode=1 or 4.
Interestingly, using the Mate desktop environment, KMS is noticably more stable. It can take some time for a crash to happen. Even when running compiz 0.8.6 I can have the effects such as the cube (sad I know) working and still no crash. In contrast, an LXDE (or XFCE) environment often causes an almost instant crash.
This rather mirrors a problem I have with UMS. Unless I set my FBTexPercent very low I often get corruption in application windows. This can be just the window title bar, or toolbar or even the whole window. Even setting FBTexPerecent to zero I can still get this corruption. It's very annoying. I can send you a screen grab if you like, but its just a jumble of pixels in the effected area. Again, LXDE is very prone to this problem (in particular PCManFM), but Mate doesn't seem so badly effected and it is why I'm running it. I was wondering if the KMS crash and this problem were linked in some way?
Adam
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