Bug#499212: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: rotated display + EXA crashes X server

[Brice Goglin]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Per the bug I just filed, XAA is painfully slow at drawing a rotated display
> on the hardware I've got, so I tried EXA - but then the X server crashes on
> startup.  I'll paste the relevant bit of the server log up here:
>
> Backtrace:
> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x65) [0x47f595]
> 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f951dcd6f80]
> 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so(exaOffscreenAlloc+0x90) [0x7f951bc71810]
> 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0x7f951c902724]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0x7f951c92632d]
> 5: /usr/bin/X(xf86CrtcRotate+0x39d) [0x4af74d]
> 6: /usr/bin/X(xf86CrtcSetMode+0x355) [0x4a8ab5]
> 7: /usr/bin/X(xf86SetDesiredModes+0x1c5) [0x4a8ff5]
> 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0x7f951c90c898]
> 9: /usr/bin/X(AddScreen+0x1c9) [0x432219]
> 10: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x241) [0x4684f1]
> 11: /usr/bin/X(main+0x286) [0x4329b6]
> 12: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f951dcc31a6]
> 13: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x269) [0x431f69]

Does it crash the same if you start without rotation and then rotate
with xrandr --rotate ?

Does it help if you use a single display? Or remove rightof/left ? Or
remove Virtual ?

Can you catch a debugging backtrace with gdb ?

thanks,
Brice