rRadeon 9000 + X.Org 1.11.2 + EnablePageFlip + opengl = crash

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2011-12-06 at 17:44 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: 
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Giuliano Pochini <pochini at shiny.it> wrote:
> > 
> > I also tried KMS. When EnablePageFlip is enabled glxgears renders nothing
> > and X freezes immediately except the mouse pointer. After a few second the
> > screen blanks and a reboot is the only cure.
> >
> > W/o EnablePageFlip it works better. glxgears looks OK, but it runs at
> > 60fps. xterm colours are wrong.

Wrong xterm colours would be an xf86-video-ati issue.

> > Everything else seems fine. Running other 3D apps (Nexuiz,
> > Scorched3D) works fine at first, but seconds or minutes later it
> > locks up the same way without any symptom before that moment. 
> 
> With KMS apps are synced the refresh rate by default,  you can
> override that by setting the env var vblank_mode=0, e.g.,
> vblank_mode=0 glxgears
> 
> Pageflipping with KMS works fine here, so it may be something mac specific.

It works fine on this PowerBook with an RV350, but glxgears can't really
use page flipping anyway with KMS, unless you run it in fullscreen mode
maybe.


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