Bug#499212: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: rotated display + EXA crashes X server

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Alex Deucher:
>
>> 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.
>
> Hmm.  Unfortuantely, it's not much faster with EXA. 8-(

I saw a substantial improvement in the performance of a rotated screen
with EXA -- it was unusable with XAA and fine with EXA.  Perhaps you
have a different card?

zw