Bug#726585: Chipset ATI Rage XL PCI [1002:4752] fails during initialization with MACH64 driver

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 08:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Mar  1, 2014 at 11:23:38 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>
>> I have had to go back to using
>> 
>>    Option "ExaNoComposite" "true"
>> 
>> in the xorg.conf file.  Although the patch you provided does prevent a crash
>> during initialization, a number of rendering problems remain.  Usually, I
>> can recover the proper appearance of the screen by switching to a text
>> console with Ctrl+Alt+F1, then switching back to the graphical console with
>> Alt+F7; but after doing this a number of times, the X server usually crashes.
>> Clearly there are other rendering problems with EXA not fixed by the patch.
>  
> This will have to be addressed upstream.

Actually, the above-described problem seems to have more to do with the
non-device-specific portions of the X server.  Subsequent maintenance to
jessie has fixed this problem.  I am back to disabling the ExaNoComposite
option again.  I still have some minor rendering problems, particularly
after the screen saver has kicked in, but the server doesn't crash anymore.

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