Bug#386989: PageFlip causes graphic freezes after a while
Hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 09.08.2007, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Brice Goglin:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:19:37PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Bad news. I just ran google earth and shortly after, while doing some
> > aggressive window-swapping, it crashed with the usual symptoms. Note
> > that while switching, metacity draws white borders around windows using
> > probably the same technique as OSD.
> >
> > Without PageFlip, this seems to be stable.
>
> Hi Joachim,
>
> Since you seem to have an AGP board, you might want to try adding
> Option "BusType" "PCI"
> to the Device section of your xorg.conf. It will make X use a regular
> PCI mode and thus might workaround some broken AGP bridges.
This will also degrade performance, right?
> Also playing with the AGP mode in the BIOS could help.
>
> Apart from that, there's a libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.1 and xserver-xorg-video-ati
> 6.6.193 in experimental, in case it helps for any of your bugs.
Currently, I’m running with PageFlip disabled and everything is stable.
I might do some more investigation some other time, but not now, if
that’s ok.
Greetings,
Joachim
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