On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, khaqq wrote: > I had lockups a few months ago with my FireGL8800 with X/DRI, I gave up trying > to find a stable X/DRI combination after trying 3 X versions and about 20 DRI > snapshots. I'm *not* saying DRI isn't good, it used to work perfectly on my > 7500. > But the R200 was never stable here (I've had it for ~6 months now).
I have to agree with you. I complained about the r200 driver some months ago. I was told to try to track down the time when the instability of the r200 driver started (some develorers suggested the end of September, 2004).Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile older CVS snapshots on my debian sid system. It's very strange, I don't think that X.org CVS was broken for months... (I tried compiling snapshots from 2004.08.31 to 2004.11.30 without any success...) > I'm using ATI-drivers atm and I've not seen a single crash with those. If > debug logs are > interesting to you, or to any X/DRI developpers, I'll go back to DRI and try > to > generate them if you tell me how. I'm happy to say my PC doesn't seem to have > any hardware problem (as it was suggested on dri-devel) since going to > ati-drivers > solved *all* the stability issues I had with X+DRI (and before switching from > the 7500 to the 8800, it was stable ; and it was still stable in 3D apps in > windows > (yuck) after the switch). > Maybe if all users seeing crashes generated a debug log and put it online for > all DRI > developpers to see, finding a common denominator would be easier... I use Descent3 for testing. With recent snapshots it's getting harder to crash the game. Some months ago a simple X restart was enough to crash Descent3 (and of course the X server) in a few seconds. Nowadays I have to switch to the microwave gun and fire some dozen waves to crash X. It's 100% reproducible, so I offered my help to create gdb backtraces, but one of the DRI developers (Michael Daenzer, if I remember correctly) pointed out that gdb backtraces won't help diagnosing GPU lockups. Geller Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
