X server crashing repeatedly

[Michel Dänzer]

On Son, 2011-02-27 at 11:04 -0500, Denis Laroche wrote: 
> 
> I run version 1.9.4 of the server on an HP Pavilion dv2 notebook
> equipped with a Radeon HD 3400 graphics controller. The Linux kernel
> version is 2.6.37. The X server keeps crashing repeatedly with the
> following backtrace:
> 
> 
> [316131.004] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x4a04e8]
> [316131.004] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x62f19) [0x462f19]
> [316131.004] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f3a879db000+0xf120)
> [0x7f3a879ea120]
> [316131.004] 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (0x7f3a853cc000+0x37ba1) [0x7f3a85403ba1]
> [316131.004] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (0x7f3a853cc000+0x3f5da) [0x7f3a8540b5da]
> [316131.004] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (0x7f3a853cc000+0x36a7f) [0x7f3a85402a7f]
> [316131.004] 6: /usr/bin/X (FreeResource+0x143) [0x44d7b3]
> [316131.004] 7: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (0x7f3a853cc000+0x33b39) [0x7f3a853ffb39]
> [316131.004] 8: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (0x7f3a853cc000+0x368a2) [0x7f3a854028a2]
> [316131.004] 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2efb9) [0x42efb9]
> [316131.005] 10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2496a) [0x42496a]
> [316131.005] 11: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd)
> [0x7f3a86964bbd]
> [316131.005] 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x24509) [0x424509]
> [316131.005] Segmentation fault at address 0x290
> [316131.005] 
> Fatal server error:
> [316131.005] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

If you search for FreeResource on http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ , you can
probably find at least one related report. Some of them even have
patches you could try. 

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