Bug#515326: xorg-video-radeon: OpenGL freezes on radeon 9600 XT

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 16:19 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
> > Le lundi 16 février 2009 à 08:11 +0100, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
> >> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 17:40 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >> >
> >> > when the screensaver runs for a while, Xorg deadlocks.
> >> > Happens since latest experimental upgrade.
> >>
> >> Which of xserver-xorg-video-radeon, libgl1-mesa-dri or
> >> linux-image-$(uname -r) were upgraded/installed from/to what versions
> >> during that upgrade? Can you isolate which of them introduced the
> >> problem?
> >
> > I upgraded them all.
> > I could try to find the culprite if it's really necessary, but ..
> >
> >> > (==) RADEON(0): Using AGP 8x
> >>
> >> Does
> >>
> >>       Option  "AGPMode" "4"
> >
> > That was it, thanks. However, if my memory serves me good, there was a
> > time when this option was needed for my card, and a version (last year)
> > of xserver-xorg-video-radeon started to guess right how to configure my
> > card. It seems the newest one has lost how to do it properly.
> 
> I've added a quirk for your setup to ati git master:
> 3c9e00c7f2ed494976713e8f77b729e0d76409db

I had a quick look, I didn't know it was so specific !
Apparently from your commit, some 9600XT could run at mode 8 on some
other chipsets. I doubt that (mine never run well at mode 8, and I
changed motherboard twice).

Thanks anyway,

	Xav