søn, 26 02 2006 kl. 14:14 -0500, skrev John Thacker: > Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > Doing a bit of investigation has shown that it isn't just the > > r300 DRI driver that is instable, but even just loading the X server > > DRI module with many r300 or newer cards causes the system to crash, > > even if DRI is actually disabled, and even if the r300 DRI driver is > > not even present on the system. > > I believe that this is almost surely this problem: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2005-December/011678.html > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4847 > http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/ChangeLog?rev=1.22&view=markup > > There are some important memory map and other fixes for Radeon cards > (especially R300 and above) that hit the xorg CVS tree on February > 17, after 7.0. (The author considered them a little too experimental > for 7.0.) Apparently without the fixes many people saw lockups using > R300 cards without DRI enabled or the r300 DRI drive present. However, > with these fixes the instability goes away. > > Perhaps these upstream CVS patches could be integrated into the Fedora > Core patches. If so, the r300 driver could be left in FC5. Of course, > we are running low on time, but I think it's a relatively critical bug. > Especially if the recent Mesa change doesn't solve the crashes for > everyone. Mike, could we get a set of testing rpms akin to what you did with the fonts package to see if this fixes the r300 behavioral problems? - David -- Obligatory shameless blog plug - the GNOME commentary located at: www.lovesunix.net/blog -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
