X.org 6.8 upgrade - glxinfo with fglrx driver crashes X ?

Panagiotis Papadakos papadako at csd.uoc.gr
Mon Sep 20 10:10:04 PDT 2004


The problem was introduced 1-2 months ago, when the latest dri code was
imported in the X.org tree. From what I know, only ATi can fix this. They 
say that they will release a new driver specifically for X.org 6.8.

http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1282


 	Panagiotis Papadakos

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ian Romanick wrote:

> Osho GG wrote:
>
>> I tried using ATI's latest (3.12) drivers to enable 3d acceleration.
>> If dri is enabled then doing glxinfo immediately crashes X server. If
>> I disabled dri with ATI's drivers - well then I don't see much of a
>> point of using it.
>
> I'm also seeing this with ATI's drivers and an aging Radeon 8500LE. Anyone 
> have any idea what the problem might be?  The drivers are built for XFree86 
> 4.3.  Was there some internal API change since then that's causing the 
> problem?
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