On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:53, Joss Winn wrote: > Finally got around to taking your advice and installed the > dri-trunk-sid packages: > > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2003.05.04-1_powerpc.deb > xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk_2003.05.04-1_powerpc.deb > drm-trunk-module-src_2003.05.04-1_all.deb > > and compiled and installed the modules. > > However, still no joy: it doesn't fail as early as it did but X > takes up so much cpu power logging into gnome that the system > freezes.
Does just X freeze and take up all CPU (a typical symptom of a DRI related lockup), or does really the whole system freeze (which might indicate a worse problem)? > Like I said a while back, DRI has worked very well on this machine > under X 4.1 In the worst case, you could stay with a 4.1 server... (assuming it's the server that makes the difference) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer