Bug#699639: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Display freezes with shared keyboard, mouse and monitors

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 13:51 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: 
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:31:11 +0100
> Michel Dänzer <daenzer at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sam, 2013-02-02 at 19:15 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: 
> > > 
> > > I share the keyboard, mouse and one of two monitors between this PC and
> > > another one running Windows. The input devices are switched with a cheap
> > > USB KVM and the monitors with their own controls because they have HDMI
> > > and DVI inputs. The primary screen is always set to this PC, only the
> > > secondary one is switched to the other PC.
> > > 
> > > Sometimes X crashes, leaving the picture frozen indefinitely.
> > 
> > The information included with your report does not show an X server
> > crash. Are you sure it crashes and doesn't 'just' freeze?
> 
> Sorry, I meant freeze. In bug 694953 the maintainer said he could see
> my kernel was "unhappy" from the original dmesg log from when this
> happened with the Intel driver.
> 
> I rebooted after the last freeze, not knowing I would have to open a
> new bug, so the dmesg log here probably only shows since after the
> reboot. When I thought the Radeon problem was the same bug, I attached
> another dmesg log there (message 37) that I think covers the time that
> the freeze occurred, so perhaps you can find some information in there?

Can't really see any sign of trouble there.


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