http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10561





------- Comment #10 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-04-09 01:58 PST -------
First of all, does this also happen with a 32 bit kernel?

(In reply to comment #8)
> 
> > Can you still kill the secondlife process and get X back working?
> 
> Yes, I need to use kill -9.  The process does not even react to
> SIGSTOP/SIGCONT (^Z in the shell).

Probably because it's holding the hardware lock.


> But there's that 1ms pause between calls to ioctl().  

That's up to the Mesa driver. I'm not sure the sleep is really useful, I think
it should at least drop the hardware lock in addition to sleeping, if not
instead of it. I can whip up a patch for that.

> And the arguments are always the same.  Doesn't it mean it's a retry loop?

Sure, didn't (mean to) say it isn't.


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