Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: commit b1ee26b "radeonfb: accelerate imageblit and other improvements" freezes system on switching from X to text console | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:28:59 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 20:44 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Hi Ben > > The changes in the commit mentioned in the subject freeze my system when > changing from X to a text console. The system freezes with a garbled > display. Reverting this commit fixes the problem. > > The freeze only happens if DRI is enabled in X. It also does not happen > if I simply switch between different text consoles. > > My system is a PowerPC PowerBook G4 15" (PowerBook5,8) with a ATI > Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 graphics card. I'm running X.org 1.5.1 with the > radeon driver version 6.9.0+git20080826.a3cc1d7a from Debian > experimental. > > Sorry, I don't have the knowledge nor the time to fix this myself, but I > would be happy to test an improved patch. Please also feel free to ask > if you need more information.
It's annoying as I have approximately the same machine and couldn't reproduce the problem lately (slightly different X version though, from Ubuntu intrepid).
I'll give it another go.
Cheers, Ben.
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