[Dri-users] When (if ever) will the r300 driver be functional?

[David A. D. <de...@gn...>]

	Every few weeks/months, I go back and rebuild X from source, 
to try to get the r300 DRM and DRI working on my Thinkpad T42p with 2D 
and 3D support.

	After a drive died in my laptop (the drive arm detached and 
was banging around inside), I decided to reinstall a Debian-based 
system from scratch, replacing my Debian Unstable/Experimental system. 
I went with Ubuntu Breezy for this new build.

	Moments ago, I patched, compiled and installed Xorg on this 
laptop, and restarting X had great 3D support... for 30 seconds. I'm 
back to the hard-lockups of the machine after that. 

	I followed the instructions on the f.d.o. wiki to the letter, 
building xc, Mesa, drm, and so on, and copying the libraries into 
place as necessary and as documented in the wiki.

	How do I avoid these lockups? Its been consistent since the 
7-24-2005 cutover of r300 to the main tree. Anything after that date, 
will reproducably hard-lock the machine within 30 seconds, even if I 
do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on the machine after X launches.

	I've supplied my configs and other bits here before, and 
they're pretty generic. What else can I do to track this down and FIX 
it? 

	Thanks in advance. 


David A. Desrosiers
de...@gn...
http://gnu-designs.com