Bug#570466: not fixed after all

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 00:32 +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> the stability of my laptop was apparently due to a missing firmware file
> (R600_rlc.bin), which prevented DRI2 to work. Now that I have that file
> back (I also upgraded to latest 2.6.33 kernel from experimental), I have
> problems again with KMS/DRI2.
> 
> However the problem evolved, as my laptop does not completely crash
> anymore. Only the screen randomly turns blank and doesn't come back.
> 
> For example, I can still switch to a VT. The screen somehow flickers but
> remains blank, but I can blindly login and issue commands or reboot. I
> suspect that my X session is still useable, but of course without
> knowing where my pointer is, it's quite complicated to prove :-)
> 
> I logged in through ssh, and X is no longer using 100% CPU. I have no
> error in syslog or the Xorg log, so it seems that the beast is blind but
> didn't notice anything unusual.
> 
> Tell me if I can help further.

Please post your Xorg.0.log and dmesg output from when the problem
occurs.


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