Bug#369167: DRI probably broken: where to reportbug

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 01:57 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:53:39AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > Does any of the following make a difference?
> > 
> >       * Commenting out Option "AGPMode", "EnablePageFlip" or
> >         "BackingStore".
> >       * Not loading the "ddc", "int10", "vbe" and "v4l" modules in
> >         Section "Module".
> 
> After commenting *everything* you mentioned above and enabling the
> DRI load, a '/etc/init.d/kdm start' crashes the system:

Hmm, then it's not likely a configuration issue. Would be great if you
could try with the DRM from DRI CVS, see

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building#head-59338b545aa94fe7570b689a9f9f850f53f732ca
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building#head-d3dcc7d83ae38d3b36f7f23ddcd4f5268396b2b4


> BTW: Is it possible to ssh into such a crashed system/machine and shut
> it down cleanly instead of stupidly pressing the power button I was
> doing so far after these crashes?

Depends how hard the crash is. Would be interesting to know at any rate.
Even if it doesn't work, ctrl-option-power (IIRC, and don't want to
verify right now ;) might reset the machine slightly more gracefully.


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