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

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Mine is bigger than that (3520x1200) but I have a r5xx card, so I
> guess it's moot?
>

yeah, r5xx has 4096x4096 limits.

> 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT]
>
> (anyway, isn't this bug about the crash on startup with EXA + a
> rotation in xorg.conf?)

yes it is.  sorry, getting off topic.  Unfortunately I haven't had a
chance to look into this further yet.

Alex