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

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Alex Deucher:
>
>> 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.
>
> Hmm.  Unfortuantely, it's not much faster with EXA. 8-(
>

How big is your screen (including both heads if you are using
dualhead)?  The texture coordinate limits are 2048x2048 on r3xx/r4xx
hw.  If your desktop is bigger than that, it'll fall back to software.

Alex