Hello Michel!

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:50:49 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:58 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>> 
>> So, I'd say that I'm experiencing two bugs: the first is a general
>> X.Org freezing (withouth DRI enabled or with DRI enabled and no
>> "radeon" kernel module), 
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt's patch attached to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3911 (note that he only
> posted later, improved versions to the xorg mailing list) seems to
> help with some such problems.

I hope you're referring to [1], because I'm going to applying it and
locally compiling a custom Debian xserver-xorg-6.9 to test what
happens ;-)

I'll report my tests ASAP.

>> the second is a specific problem with the DRI
>> r300 driver (this should be bug #345929 [2]).
>
> Indeed, but this one as well, according to the submitter.

I think you are referring to the submitter of bug #345929.  I mean,
I'm sure I'm hitting both bugs :-(

>> [1] I tried with xlibmesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-dri, but no
>>     differences.  
>
> These only come into play when running an OpenGL application.

Ok, I know nothing at all about DRI/OpenGL.

>> Moreover, I don't know why r300_dri.so is not
>>     present in xlibmesa-dri, since X.Org 6.9 ships it:
>> 
>>         http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ChangesSince68
>
> The X tree doesn't build the r300 driver by default.

My fault, I thought that the entry "Experimental DRI support for
Radeon 9500 and above" implied the compilation by default.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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