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Bug#284448: xserver-xfree86: xserver (ATI or Radeon something 7500) crashes on variouslaunches of programcs from within X.

Branden Robinson wrote:


If the justification is "unknown", it might as well not be present.
Sorry, this is my first bug report (after using debian for many years, since 0.7 or so), and I believe the script suggested that. 


This bug is not a report of a Policy violation, nor does failure of the X
server to work on a particular piece of video hardware -- notably one which you
haven't actually identified -- constitute a bug which renders the package
"unsuitable" for release.
unsuitable it is, therefore. But since today it has become worse. My computer at home, with---from lspci: 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 5598/6326 (rev d2) ---graphics card now shows the same behaviour. X-Server crashes on rxvt launch from gnome panel. Happened several times now. I had a xserver-xfree86-3.1.0.dfsg.1-4 .deb left around, I am using that now, hoping it won't die on my while composing the message... 


A crashing bug that affected all users of xserver-xfree86 would be a different
story.
Well, so first there was the ati/radeon 7500 and now the SiS 6326. 
The data below are not really applicable, because I've put in another
video card.  I've spent more than a day re/configuring.  Problem is,
that various launches (from gnome panel, from terminal) of various
programs (rxvt, galeon, wmware) cause the Xserver to crash.  (I
sincerely hope) it is specific to the ati or radeon video card/driver
`ati' or `radeon'.


Probably -- most crashing bugs are in hardware specific code, either in the 2D
XFree86 driver, or the 3D DRI driver.
I believe I am not using 3D, not using DRI in the case of the ati/radeon 7500 (I commented the module out at some stage without positive effect). 


I've used the ati video card happily without problems for over a year.
I had to change from stable to sarge because xfree 4.1.0 didn't
support the card.  Since 3 dec 2004 somehow, X-server crashes.  It
might have been the upgrade to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 at some upgrade to
`sarge' in the past, but I can't find any earlier problemless xserver
anymore from the archives to test this hypothesis.


Are you aware of snapshot.debian.net?  It would be *extremely* helpful to know
at which package version this regression in functionality took place.
No, I wasn't unfortunately. I needed it desparately. 
The data below is not so accurate w.r.t the video card, since that has
been replaced in this machine. Sorry about that. 

We're simply going to have to have accurate information before we can proceed.

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Thanks---I will try this. In a way I am happy that this problem now occurs at home as well. I was extremely frustrated finding a solution for my crashing X-server at work, having spent more than a day on it very unsuccesfully. 
Now I can spend some of my own time on the problem.

---david
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