[Dri-devel] Problem with Radeon 9000 and lockups

[Jorrit T. <Jor...@uz...>]

Hi everyone,

I have just installed RedHat 9 on my system. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
(128MB ram) and I'm suffering from severe lockups that appear to have 
something
to do with the amount of geometry that is drawn in an OpenGL application. In
my particular case I'm testing with Crystal Space. I get very good 
performance
with little geometry in view (more than 200 fps). As soon as the amount of
geometry goes up the performance goes down VERY sharply and soon the system
will completey lock up (have to power down everything).

When I was using RedHat 7.3 on the same system before I was using the 
drivers
from ATI and I got no problems then (with the same version of Crystal Space
and the same hardware). Unfortunatelly I can not use the drivers from 
ATI now
as RedHad 9 comes with XFree 4.3 and ATI drivers only go up to XFree 4.2.

I notice that there is already a FAQ entry about this problem at
http://dri.sourceforge.net/faq/faq_display.phtml?id=49
But there didn't appear to be any solution in that faq entry.

This is really a bad problem for me (is stopping me developing on 
Crystal Space) and
I wonder if any progress is being made on fixing this bug. Is there 
anything I can
do to help fix it perhaps?

Also is there some forced command I could use to get me out of that locked
situation so that I don't have to power down my system all the time. 
i.e. I thought
about using a script like this:

    ./program &
    export PID=$!
    sleep 30
    kill $PID

So the program would be killed in 30 seconds after startup. 
Unfortunatelly this
doesn't restore system operation. But perhaps there is something that I 
could do
to force X to restart?

Greetings and thanks in advance!

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