Bug#509143: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: possible 2D render error in radeon crashes cairo application

[Michel Dänzer]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:55 +0100, Christian Wäckerlin wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
> Severity: normal
> 
> When working in evince, it crashes. I think this is a problem with the 'radeon' driver, because:
> 
> * When Xorg is started using 'vesa' instead of 'radeon' or 'ati', evince does not SIGSEGV. 
> * On an other machine running Debian/Lenny with the 'nvidia' driver, the problem does not occur.
> * The bug was also reproduced on a second laptop with Debian/Lenny and 'radeon'.
> * The bug also occurs in a Debian/Live system and on systems with
> default xorg.conf.

Still, as the evince process crashes, it's a bug in evince or one of the
libraries it uses. (There may or may not also be a bug on the X server
side that triggers the bug on the client side)


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