"K. Petersen" wrote: > > I have come upon a reproducible lockup on my system when switching from a > console virtual terminal to X. It can be produced as follows: > > Begin X > Switch back to a virtual console > Switch back to X
Does this cause the problem every time? Also, just to confirm...you don't have to run even one 3D application in order to see this problem? > This causes the X display to appear on the screen, with a strip along the > top deformed. In this state, the X server is unresponsive to > ctrl-alt-backspace, and I am unable to switch to any other virtual > terminals. However, I can still log in remotely. > Using alt-sysreq-k, the display then changes colors, to what I believe > might be a lower color palatte, but cannot be certain of. After this, I > am then able to switch virtual terminals, log in as root, run mode3, and > have the display restored. > At this point, vc/7 has not been restored to an unused state. Instead > there is any text I typed while the display was locked, followed by a > blinking cursor. > If I now attempt to restart X, the system will lock completely. The > monitor will go into power saving mode, the keyboard is unresponsive, and > I am unable to log in remotely. > > I hope this has been a reasonably thorough description of the problem, now > my hardware and software configuration. > > Hardware: > ATI Radeon 64DDR > AMD AthlonMP in SMP configuration > AMD 760MP chipset on a Tyan S2460 Motherboard > > Software: > Linux kernel 2.4.18 > Latest DRI cvs, with kernel module from the dri Are you building this yourself? If so, it might be useful to build a static X server. I've attached host.def you could place over xc/config/cf/host.def to build a static server with just the ati driver. > > This problem has occurred since X410, and kernel versions back at least > through 2.4.16, both with kernel DRM, and the DRM provided with the DRI. > I should also note that this only occurs when DRI is enabled. There is no > problem switching between X and other virtual terminals when DRI is > disabled. Sorry, I overlooked this earlier. Regards, Jens -- /\ Jens Owen / \/\ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ \ \ Steamboat Springs, Colorado _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel