[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.7.196

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Monday 19 of November 2007, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:31 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Monday 12 of November 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > Another RC release.
> > >
> > > fixes/new features:
> > > - cursor related hangs
> > > - LVDS fixes
> > > - support for new DDC type
> > > - bios/dock/lvds hw state fixes
> >
> > On my setup (linux 2.6.24rc2, xserver 1.4 [1], mesa 7.0.2, ati driver
> > 6.7.196, thinkpad z60m with ati radeon mobility x300) I can easily hang X
> > in a very weird way.
> >
> > Going to http://www.tmmb.pl/portal/ with opera (9.5 beta in my case) or
> > konqueror (kde 3.8.5) (but not firefox) makes X hang. Can't switch vt,
> > alt+cltr+backspace doesn't kill X server.
>
> [...]
>
> > With older ati driver releases I also had such occasional lockups but
> > these were very rare.
>
> It would be great if you could try and isolate the change that
> introduced the problem with git-bisect then.
>
> > [1] are there any fixes on 1.4.1 branch that could be important for
> > the problem?
>
> Possibly, in particular if you're using EXA.
>
>
> If neither of the above helps, please provide the full xorg.conf and
> Xorg.0.log files.

With help of #xorg-devel we found out that this happens only in exa and  
Option      "EXANoUploadToScreen" "1" workarounds the problem. See details 
in:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13207


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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/