Bug#395025: Computer freezes when starting glxgears
>On Friday 27 October 2006 23:22, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> glxinfo reports direct rendering supported. Starting glxgears freezes
>> the computer.
>mga 1.4.4 was released today with the description "Fix initialization
>issues that led to DRI lock-ups on some G400 configurations."
>I guess it should therefore be considered as a potential solution for
>this bug.
>Drew
I have now compiled the 1.4.4 version of the mga driver, and the bug is gone!! Can you please upgrade the version of
xserver-xorg-video-mga in unstable to 1.4.4 to resolve the problems I had so 395025 can be closed. Don't know about
bug #392500 though.
For other people to try the new driver before it is available in unstable:
Download and unpack xf86-video-mga-1.4.4.tar.gz
apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev, libdrm-dev, x11proto-xf86dri-dev -t unstable
./configure
apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev x11proto-gl-dev -t unstable
make
mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so_1.4.2.dfsg.1-1
cp src/.libs/mga_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/mga_drv.so
mv /usr/share/man/man4/mga.4.gz /usr/share/man/man4/mga.4.gz_1.4.2.dfsg.1-1
gzip man/mga.4
cp man/mga.4.gz /usr/share/man/man4/mga.4.gz
Start X and check in Xorg.0.log that version 1.4.4 of mga_drv is loaded.
Due to the modular structure I did not have to compile the whole xorg to try out the new driver :-)
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