Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:13:56 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: i830 DRM problems |
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Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote: > > Andrew Morton a écrit : > > Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>>I am experiencing problems with DRM on my Dell Optiplex GX260. > >>>I am running a Debian Sarge with Vanilla Linux 2.6.11 and XFree 4.3.0. > >>>This one appeared while playing crack-attack and lead to a crash > >>>of the X server. > >>> > >> > >>a) does it work with 2.6.10? > >>b) does it work if you turn off intelfb? > >> > > > > afacit we're still waiting for an answer from Brice on this one? > > Sorry about that, we start to talk about it in private with Dave. > But, I did not really it since Keenan Pepper told me it was due > to a bug in the XFree 4.3 driver. > I am now using Xorg and didn't see any DRM problem since. > However, I can't confirm that my bug was surely due to the XFree driver > and not to the kernel driver since Xorg uses i915 instead of i830. > Keenan, do you have details ?
OK, that sounds promising. Would you view this as a regression? Was XFree 4.3 working OK on earlier 2.6 kernels?
> I was also talking about a problem in intelfb on this box (i845G). > Basically, it works great during startup. But from what I remember, it > always crashes when switching from X to a text console. > I'll try to debug this one soon.
Great. Please cc linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and myself when you have more.
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