On Wednesday 17 November 2010 17:27:28 Jacques Montier wrote: > Le 17/11/2010 18:07, walt a écrit : > > On 11/17/2010 07:17 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I use an astronomical open source imaging software > >> (http://www.audela.org/) > >> which works fine except when launching a tcl photometry script > >> (Calaphot). > >> X crashes with the error message : > >> > >> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > >> > >> Major opcode of failed request: 148 (RENDER) > >> Minor opcode of failed request: 4 (RenderCreatePicture) > >> Serial number of failed request: 51329 > >> Current serial number in output stream: 51338 > >> > >> I get the same crash on two PCs with Gentoo. > >> I use an ATI graphic card > >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility > >> Radeon 9600 M10] > >> and the open source radeon driver. > > > > You may have found a bug in the open source driver. Is there a binary > > driver available from ATI that you can try? > > Binary ati drivers don't work with this old graphic card (RV350 Radon > 9600), but i can try again for see..
Have you tried enabling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y in your kernel, disabling vesa/uvesa and testing xorg-server-1.9.x it to see if it is more stable/reliable? -- Regards, Mick
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