Bug#868179: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: SEGV when starting X11
Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 xserver-xorg-video-radeon: SEGV if xorg.conf contains both rotation and Virtual
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream moreinfo
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 at 12:13:34 +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 15/07/17 03:57 AM, bartek 'basz' szurgot wrote:
> > knowing the exact conditions under which SEGV occurs
> > (i.e. rotated screen in xorg.conf), i agree it is not a "grave" bug.
>
> It's even more specific than that: The crash only happens if xorg.conf
> contains rotation and a Virtual stanza (which BTW is probably useless in
> this case anyway).
Downgrading to important based on this reasoning, and retitling to be more
specific.
> > when the fix is expected to arrive to the xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > package in Debian-testing?
>
> I have to defer to the Debian packagers on that. Upstream it'll likely
> only be in the 7.10.0 release.
The 18.0.1 release (xserver-xorg-video-ati/1:18.0.1-1) is now available in
Debian testing and unstable. bartek, does that resolve this crash for you?
Thanks,
smcv
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