Re: [Dri-devel] Ann: Radeon 8500 binary snapshots now available

[Oliver F. <ki...@gm...>]

On Saturday 06 July 2002 23:11, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Jens Owen wrote:
> > Oliver Feiler wrote:
> >> On Saturday 06 July 2002 17:36, Oliver Feiler wrote:
> >>> On Friday 05 July 2002 13:04, José Fonseca wrote:
> >>>> Keith Whitwell confirmed the readiness of the r200-0-1-branch for
> >>>> testing and for binary snapshots.
> >>>
> >>> Just tested this driver on a system with original ATI 8500 card.
> >>>
> >>> With the binary snaphots and with the r200 branch compiled myself the
> >>> system crashes immediately when X is started. With DRI disabled X
> >>> comes up
> >>> and runs without problems.
> >
> > Oliver,
> >
> > If you have the room for a fully debuggable X Server, try adding this
> > patch before you build the X Server.
> >
> > Then login remotely and run gdb xc/programs/Xserver/XFree86 as root.
> >
> > If you can case the crash like that, post the backtrace to the list.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jens
>
> This works if it is a crash, but not if it is a lockup where the system
> freezes overall -- I don't know which Oliver is experiencing...

I will try that later (or tomorrow) when I have access to that computer again. 
Unfortunately it's not mine. :)

All I can say about this crash now is that the system just locks up. The 
screen goes black and that's it. I cannot ping the system anymore. I will 
still try what Jens suggested, maybe I can get some useful information.

Bye

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