Bug#533444: xserver-xorg-video-ati: X server hang while starting opengl application

[Henri Valta <cg@jakorasia.info>]

On Friday 26 June 2009 11:18:33 Michel Dänzer wrote:
> You could try current upstream mesa Git master, there have been a lot of
> fixes in the Radeon drivers for GPU lockups and other stability issues
> since the 7.5 branch. If it still happens with that, please report it
> upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org , product Mesa, component
> Drivers/DRI/r300, with specific information about the apps triggering
> it.

With upstream mesa git master, the Xserver no longer freezes or causes oops, 
but exits with -1 status, giving the following output to stdout/stderr.
Nothing interesting in Xorg logs

Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
Dac detection success
Unhandled monitor type 0
r300VertexProgUpdateParams:Params exhausted
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

I'll look more into debugging this, maybe try some git bisect and report 
upstream, if this is not already known issue.

-Henri