On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 18:53:58 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-mga > Version: 1:1.9.99.dfsg.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I am running unstable on a newly installed system. Graphics card is a > Matrox G450 Dual Head, with two TFT displays connected via VGA. The > xserver-xorg-video-mga is the version from experimental. > > Once in a while, the driver gets into an endless loop: X takes all > available CPU, does not react any more, and is not killable. > > When SIGKILL is finally used, sometimes the entire system crashes. > > This is also in upstream bugzilla, #12627. > > Sorry, no dependency information as I am filing this bug from a > different system. > Hi, you mentioned on irc that you got lots of "(EE) MGA(0): [dri] Idle timed out, resetting engine..." in the log. One thing that would probably be worth trying is to disable dri. To do that, add 'Disable "dri"' in the Module section of xorg.conf. Cheers, Julien
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