On 3/29/09, Christian P. Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello devels, > > I do have a major issue with driver version 6.12.1 on x86-64, running X > 1.5.3. > > The problem: Running enlightenment DR17 as the Window Manager one can > "roll up" a window into its titlebar. If that window happens to be a > mplayer video window using the xv output driver there is a high > probability of things going awry - X uses 100-180% CPU (Dual Core > Laptop), the mouse only moves sporadically, keyboard input is not > accepted any more. > > Logging into the machine via ssh I observed the high CPU, and killed, > one after the other, mplayer, enlightenment and X. All that was left in > the end was a process called [X] that ignored the KILL signal and gave > me permission denied when I tried to strace it as root. This process > constantly consumed 100% CPU until a reboot. > > This is surely related to xv (resizing the active window to zero?) as > there is no problem using just x11 as the video output driver in mplayer.
This is a GPU hang. Some combination of commands when you roll up the window is causing the GPU to hang. Does switching to EXA help (Option "AccelMethod" "EXA")? Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
