Bug#616301: xserver-xorg-video-radeon:screen goes black, system hangs after 2sec:[youtube(FF/Opera)-reset req.]

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2011-03-04 at 21:04 +0100, "Matthias Rühl" wrote: 
> > Datum: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:36:21 +0100
> > Von: "Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian.org>
> > An: Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos at gmail.com>
> > CC: 616301-submitter at bugs.debian.org, "Matthias Rühl" <matthias.ruehl at gmx.de>
> > Betreff: Re: Bug#616301: xserver-xorg-video-radeon:screen goes black, system hangs after 2sec:[youtube(FF/Opera)-reset req.]
> 
> > So far, so good. If you can try 7.10-2 (which was still shipping the
> > classic r600 driver, whereas 7.10-4 is shipping the Gallium based one)
> > or other versions in between as well, that would be interesting.
> 
> With packages 
> 
> libdrm-radeon1_2.4.23-2
> libgl1-mesa-dri_7.10-2
> libtalloc2_2.0.5-1
> 
> from http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110210T084921Z/ 
> iceweasel sometimes freezes when viewing youtube videos but so far this 
> doesn't trigger gpu softresets.

Good news, it might be possible to isolate an upstream fix for the
classic r600 driver and backport it to squeeze then. Can you try doing
that with git bisect?


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