Bug#490071: Same hangs with Radeon driver

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:30 +0200, Juergen Kosel wrote:
> 
> Brice Goglin schrieb:
> > Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> >> I'm experiencing the same hangs in X with the latest two version of
> >> the Radeon driver (1:6.9.0-1+lenny1 and 1:6.9.0-1) as reported by
> >> Juergen Kosel: unresponsive keyboard but mouse still moving and 100%
> >> CPU usage by the X process.
> >>
> >> Should I open a new bug report for the xserver-xorg-video-radeon or
> >> can I post here further system info?
> >>   
> > 
> > What we need is a (very precise) way to reproduce this hang. And also we
> > need to make sure it's not fixed in the upcoming Xorg 7.4.
> > If the hang is related to 3D, you could try Mesa from experimental. If
> 
> I have just installed mesa from experimental. So the hang is triggered
> immediatly when I start a gnome/compiz session: As before xorg occupies
> all CPU time. But mouse and keyboard are still usable. Also the x
> session could be closed by <ctrl><alt><backspace>.
> In the original hang, xorg doesn't stop even on kill -9 !

So it's not the same problem anymore.


> > it's in the driver, you could try the upstream git. If it's in AIGLX or
> > so, you could try mesa and xserver-xorg-core from experimental.
> 
> I am not sure to upgrade also xserver-xorg-core to experimental when the
> mesa of experimantal even faster causes the hang.

You can't really test compiz otherwise as AIGLX won't work. This might
explain the symptoms above due to falling back to GLX software
rendering.


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