[Dri-devel] Re: DRM causes video lock on virtual console switching

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 07:14, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> > We have massive reports of VT switching hangs in XFree86 4.2.0
> > with almost all Radeon hardware, but with other hardware as well.
> > This problem has occured aparently since the prereleases 4.1.99.*
> > and up through to the final release of 4.2.0.  The kernel version
> > doesn't seem to make any difference.  As I understand, the Radeon
> > is not being initialized properly or restored properly, however
> > it occurs on other hardware as well.
> >
> > The problem seems common enough that I'm surprised it has not
> > been determined yet, althought it seems that it is not one
> > problem, but is more likely individual problems in different
> > drivers, and the kernel isn't ruled out either.
> >
> > I've tried debugging it myself but have yet to determine the
> > problem or a solution.
>=20
> I reported a problem to the gatos list a long while back that
> I think may be related.  (I thought it was strictly a gatos
> thing, but have no idea, so I'll share it now).
> I'm running X from cvs (old, but post 4.2.0) on my radeon 64mb.
> Once I've run _any_ gl app, if I attempt to run xawtv, or use
> mtv, it hangs the entire system.  I just recently  noticed that
> the same thing occurs after switching to a vt and back--attempts
> to watch video cause a system hang.
> Exiting X entirely and restarting it at least makes it possible
> to watch video after having used a gl app.
>=20
> So now I wonder if it's just X related and not gatos or dri
> specific.

Have you tried this with non-GATOS drivers?


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast