On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 21:01 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >> severity 616301 critical >> thanks > > No, not unless it will affect a large proportion of users. > >> My system locks up whenever I click on a YouTube video link since >> yesterday. I can probably live without YouTube :), but in any case this >> shouldn't happen. >> >> This isn't a singled out case nor in exotic, possibly faulty, hardware. >> It's on a standard 1½-year old Dell OptiPlex 780 desktop with a Radeon >> HD card (one of the standard configurations) and this is on a stock >> squeeze system. >> >> The findings so far seem to suggest this is a Mesa issue; I'd probably >> file it under "Linux kernel bugs" (or even DoS bugs) but I'm not sure >> where to properly file such bugs in the post-KMS stack world. > > If there is a kernel driver involved then it should be assigned to the > kernel. Even without KMS, a Mesa driver should be considered untrusted > and should not be able to trigger a crash or hang. With KMS, this > applies to the X driver too. >
With or without KMS, the userspace acceleration drivers can certainly cause GPU hangs if the 3D engine is programmed with some combination of commands it doesn't like. Alex > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > xorg-driver-...@lists.x.org > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org