Re: Re: Machine hangs/screen hangs with newer kernels + GL screensavers
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:57, Marco van Zwetselaar wrote:
> Michel Daenzer wrote:
> > Ariel Garcia wrote:
> > > both on my desktop and my laptop i am getting strange hangs
> > > when running XFree packages (both debian testing/unstable,
> > > 4.2.1-{12.1,15}) with the newer linux kernels. This happens
> > > for me since one of the 2.5.5* kernels (and it still happens
BTW, it'd be interesting to know which 2.5.x kernel exactly it stopped
working at.
> > > with 2.6.0) and now i also checked the same happens with
> > > 4.2.23 (but doesn't happen with 4.2.22).
[...]
> I can confirm this. I got just the same problem on my laptop, a Dell
> with an ATI Radeon card, X version 4.2.1-12.1. When I start glxgears on
> kernel 2.4.23 or 2.6.0-test9, it all hangs. No problems on 2.4.22 (or
> earlier), which were configured just the same as .23, apart from the low
> latency patches (which aren't available yet for .23).
Sounds like the radeon DRM broke backwards compatibility for XFree86 4.2
and older somewhere along the way. :( Just to be sure, can either of you
please try the DRM from current DRI CVS?
> Should I file a bug in the BTS?
Against what, the kernel packages? I'm not sure that'll be too useful,
CC'ing the dri-devel list.
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