Hi Branden and Michel, Sorry for the delay in replying, but I have had no time to do more test until recently...
Branden, In the meanwhile I have contacted Michel Danzer (who is the one in charge of the DRI packages) after indeed discovering that removing xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk solves the instability. Emails exchanged are included below. Michel suggests that this might only be a font problem. I'm using the configuration from my old computer setup, so it might be true that I have not installed all the fonts I used before. However, after more than a month of uptime (I turn my computer off no more than a couple of hours a week), I have had zero crashes of X without the xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk package. Just to confirm, this morning I reinstalled the xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk package and X crashed in less than 2 minutes... I purged it out permanently now:D. I seem to have video acceleration working without any problem and hence the above package seems to be unnecessary and buggy. Note that the other DRI packages (drm-trunk-module-src and xlibmesa-dri) work without problems. Thank you very much for your help!!, Pato On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:29, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:27 -0400, Patricio Rojo wrote: > > > > I was using all the DRI packages without any problem for almost a > > year using all the regular Xserver updates for the unstable version of > > Debian. However, less than one month ago, my hard disk died. > > > > After reinstalling everything I tried enabling the DRI support once > > again, I installed drm-trunk-module-src (and compiled it), xlibmesa-dri > > and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk. Not that xlibmesa3-dri-trunk is not > > available anymore in your Sid repository despite what your README file > > said. > > It doesn't say that. It says 'Install [...] xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk/ > xlibmesa3-dri-trunk [...]'; xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk is for testing and > sid, xlibmesa3-dri-trunk for woody. > > > > Well, what happened is that X became very unstable, I even filled a > > bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254618). > > Recently, however I tried uninstalling xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk and all > > the unstability is gone, and it seems that 3D acceleration works fine > > (At least TuxRacer is). What was that package for? > > It's an X server snapshot from DRI CVS. > > > > I'll appreciate if you confirm me that such package is no longer > > necessary and is probably the cause of the unstability so that I can > > update the reported Debian bug. > > It was probably never 'necessary' in the first place, but this is the > first time I hear that such problems would be specific to it. Sounds > rather like a usual font related crash. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- . . /. . * /`'\ . Patricio Rojo . / ./ \.. 516 Space Sciences Building ../ .' \. Cornell University ../ / ../ \ Ithaca, NY 14853 ./ ./ ./ \ (607)255-6438 ./ ./ \ \. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html