On 28/10/2007, Vincent <10.50@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a recurrent problem with the DRI since I moved to a "quite
> experimental" configuration: modular-xorg v1.4, xf-video-ati 6.7.195 and
> libdrm 2.3.1, all of these (and the kernel also) compiled with gcc 4.2.
> When I test the DRI with glxgears, the test goes fine for a few seconds
> at most, then the system hangs (the kernel crashes).

Well, it's not the same setup, but the end result is :- my laptop with
an Intel 945GM is fine with 4.99.33 (I can't tell right now the
versions of modular-xorg and the rest, but it should be 1.3; I run 1.4
only at work). With a 4.99.34 kernel from 3-4 days ago it behaves the
described way - glxgears works for a few seconds. In both cases I use
Yorick Hardy's patches for DRM and 945GM. The funny thing is that the
same kernel works fine from my external USB2 test copy of -current. I
meant to compare the differences between the packages installed on
both, but haven't done it yet.

On the office machine I tried some times ago a Radeon 9800SE; glxinfo
reported DRM enabled as it should be, glxgears froze Xorg hard, but
not the system, which was still accessible via ssh.

>
> How can I figure out what's wrong? In other terms, where can I put
> traces to help understand why it crashes?

I couldn't figure this out as well; I'd be interested in an approach to do so.

>
> Thanks!
> Vincent
>


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