On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:36 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:36 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >>
> >> AFAIK, the lockups are due to interference between 2d packets from Xserver
> >> and 3d packets from the driver. Somehow mouse movement provokes it,
> >> possibly when the cursor shape changes on crossing window boundaries..
> >>
> >> It is not the mouse movement per se that induces the lockup, but the
> >> movement of the 2d cursor on a screen.
> >
> > Have you tried idling the engine before uploading the cursor data?
> 
> I haven't played with that part of 2d driver, but shouldn't it do this 
> already as all ATI cards are touchy about framebuffer access while 
> the graphics engine is busy ?

It arguably should, but it doesn't AFAICT.


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