Bug#533444: xserver-xorg-video-ati: X server hang while starting opengl application

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 22:21 +0300, Henri Valta wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 11:18:33 Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > You could try current upstream mesa Git master, there have been a lot of
> > fixes in the Radeon drivers for GPU lockups and other stability issues
> > since the 7.5 branch. If it still happens with that, please report it
> > upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org , product Mesa, component
> > Drivers/DRI/r300, with specific information about the apps triggering
> > it.
> 
> With upstream mesa git master, the Xserver no longer freezes or causes oops, 
> but exits with -1 status, giving the following output to stdout/stderr.
> Nothing interesting in Xorg logs
> 
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> Dac detection success
> Unhandled monitor type 0
> r300VertexProgUpdateParams:Params exhausted
> xinit:  connection to X server lost.
> 
> I'll look more into debugging this, maybe try some git bisect and report 
> upstream, if this is not already known issue.

Please do. This sounds like a separate issue in mesa Git, which may just
be masking your original problem.

FWIW, it looks like disabling 'desktop effects' should work around this
problem, unless your application is using indirect rendering for some
reason.


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