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

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix.com> 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:

This is a known bug.  If you put a rotation in your config, you get a
crash because acceleration is not set up when the rotation is
initialized.  When the ordering was changed to fix this, it led to a
worse bug (immediate hard lock), so it was reverted.  No one has had
time to sort this out yet.  You should be able to rotate once the X
server is up.

Alex