Bug#465864: xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver freezes the computer on startup

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jiří Paleček <jpalecek at web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I prepared a new (better) version of the patch. Please consider applying it
> or otherwise fixing the bug.
>
> Some comments:
>
> The first patch causes abort instead of hangs when PLL computation fails.
>
> The second changes the algorithm so it doesn't miss any solution which might
> be better than current and finds a solution iff there is one.
>
> The third patch removes a condition which seems to be bogus for me - it
> cannot force pll->reference_div in the solution, but will probably poison
> the solution with a bad solution having good ref_div, for the next ref_div
> to override it with a better solution.

Thanks for doing this!  I've pushed a variation on this set of patches
to ati git master (72feaa37ea07620f5f2ead438dbc72a1c8883cd3).  Please
let me know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Alex