Bug#440376: xserver-xorg-video-ati: acceleration method "exa" freezes the computer

[Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>]

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:02:29 +0200, Brice Goglin  
<Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Jiří Paleček wrote:
> > > http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/08/21/debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-ati/
> > >
> > > (it was already built for the new xserver-xorg-core in experimental).
> >
> > I don't understand -- I have xserver-xorg-core 1.3.0 from unstable.
>
> Oh right, I thought you would have to upgrade xserver-xorg-core because

I thought i needn't, because you wrote some days ago:

> By the way, since upgrading/downgrading both -core and drivers is kind
> of boring when just testing something, you could use -ati package that I
> just uploaded in http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/ati-for-sid/, it
> should work fine with -core 1.3.0 from sid. And we would know whether
> your original bug was fixed in -core 1.3.99 or -ati 6.7.192.

> of the ABI bump. Then does it help if you upgrade xserver-xorg-core to
> experimental 2:1.3.99.0-2? The new ati driver 6.7.192 has been built for  
> it.

No, it still crashes. Moreover, it crashes without exa as well (but  
differently).

Regards
    Jiri Palecek