Bug#572001: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Display corruption with kernel 2.6.33

[Dietz Pröpper]

Philipp Kern:
> Hi Brice,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:47:18PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Dietz Pröpper wrote:
> > >> Why do you report against xserver-xorg-video-radeon if 2.6.33 seems
> > >> to be the breaker here ?
> > >
> > > Eh? It might also be an error in xserver-xorg-video-radeon. And
> > > given the fact that there is no 2.6.33 packagage atm, where else
> > > should I report?
> >
> > 2.6.33 is actually in experimental now :)
> 
> I can confirm this behaviour on 2.6.33-2-amd64 from experimental.  I did
>  not test KMS on 2.6.32 yet, though.  Also Z61m, also X1400.  Screen
>  decays (without using OpenGL at all!) pretty much randomly but quickly
>  after startup with a simple Gnome session (with metacity, not mutter or
>  something else compositing-ish).  It looks that the screen refresh is
>  totally missing after that lockup.  Without KMS, X is working
>  correctly.

Tried 2.6.34-rc3 for an hour or so yesterday and could no longer reproduce
it. Esp. a running glxgears which triggered the behaviour within seconds 
runs fine now.

As soon as 2.3.34 gets released I will try again but it looks promising.