Bug#499212: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: rotated display + EXA crashes X server
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>> Per the bug I just filed, XAA is painfully slow at drawing a rotated display
>> on the hardware I've got, so I tried EXA - but then the X server crashes on
>> startup. I'll paste the relevant bit of the server log up here:
>
> This is a known bug. If you put a rotation in your config, you get a
> crash because acceleration is not set up when the rotation is
> initialized. When the ordering was changed to fix this, it led to a
> worse bug (immediate hard lock), so it was reverted. No one has had
> time to sort this out yet. You should be able to rotate once the X
> server is up.
Yup, rotation is fine once the X server is up, and a rotated display
is usable with EXA - I can't tell the difference between the two
screens acceleration-wise.
zw
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