Bug#420721: xserver-xorg-video-ati: crash in power management code
forwarded 420721 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10772
thank you
Gabor Gombas wrote:
> After about 2 months I logged out and restarted my machine and now the X
> server is crashing constantly. The crash seems to happen whenever the
> display is about to be powered down. Now I managed to reproduce the
> crash instantly: when I open the Gnome Screensaver properties, and I
> want to _disable_ power management, the X server crashes immediately.
> I tried to comment out the 'Option "DPMS"' in the Monitor section but
> that did not help.
>
See below.
> An other minor bug is that the Radeon driver now thinks that I have two
> monitors when in fact I only have one. I _think_ X.org 7.1 correctly
> recognized that there is no second head (this card has only a single
> analog VGA connector) but I have no logs left to verify that.
>
Some monitor/xinerama problems have been reported as well, might be
fixed in the next release in the ATI driver.
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c2134]
> 1: [0xb7f50420]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet+0x132) [0xb7e0b752]
> 3: /usr/bin/X(DPMSSet+0xc5) [0x80c15d5]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so [0xb7ed4ecd]
> 5: /usr/bin/X [0x814c1ce]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x1ab) [0x808842b]
> 7: /usr/bin/X(main+0x489) [0x8070259]
> 8: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0x4492b878]
> 9: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xad) [0x806f591]
>
This seems very similar to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10772
Brice
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