Current tinderbox regression (runtime, x11perf)

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the tinderbox machines runs x11perf against the X servers it
> builds.  This worked up until Wed 5 May, when the machine started
> hard-crashing during x11perf.  In particular, when the machine hangs,
> the VGA out is displaying:
>
> 1 Testing  Copy 500x500 from window to window
>
> The machine's in a server room, so I don't have easy access to do more
> diagnostics, but I'll try if we can't come up with anything here.
>
> The hardware is:
>
> 05:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
> (r100)
>
> I'm using KMS.  The kernel hasn't been updated in quite a while, so it
> isn't directly a kernel regression; it's still running 2.6.34-rc1.
> I'll update to the latest Rawhide kernel to see if it helps.

Have you updated the xserver and ddx as well?  Do you know what
versions you were running when it last worked?

Alex