On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 07:14, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > We have massive reports of VT switching hangs in XFree86 4.2.0 > > with almost all Radeon hardware, but with other hardware as well. > > This problem has occured aparently since the prereleases 4.1.99.* > > and up through to the final release of 4.2.0. The kernel version > > doesn't seem to make any difference. As I understand, the Radeon > > is not being initialized properly or restored properly, however > > it occurs on other hardware as well. > > > > The problem seems common enough that I'm surprised it has not > > been determined yet, althought it seems that it is not one > > problem, but is more likely individual problems in different > > drivers, and the kernel isn't ruled out either. > > > > I've tried debugging it myself but have yet to determine the > > problem or a solution. > > I reported a problem to the gatos list a long while back that > I think may be related. (I thought it was strictly a gatos > thing, but have no idea, so I'll share it now). > I'm running X from cvs (old, but post 4.2.0) on my radeon 64mb. > Once I've run _any_ gl app, if I attempt to run xawtv, or use > mtv, it hangs the entire system. I just recently noticed that > the same thing occurs after switching to a vt and back--attempts > to watch video cause a system hang. > Exiting X entirely and restarting it at least makes it possible > to watch video after having used a gl app. > > So now I wonder if it's just X related and not gatos or dri > specific.
Have you tried this with non-GATOS drivers? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel