On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:40 +0100, Geller Sandor wrote: > > > > Is there any way I can help to track down the problem(s)? My machine > > doesn't have network connection, so I can use only scripts which run in > > the background. With expect and gdb maybe it is possible to get at least a > > backtrace from my non-local-interactive machine. > > Unfortunately, a backtrace is usually useless for a lockup because all > it will show you is the X server and/or the client(s) waiting for the > GPU to become idle, which it never does because it's locked up. The > problem is finding out what caused it to lock up, and that can be very > hard and time consuming. > > That being said, I too have noticed slightly decreased stability with > r200 recently. As this seems to have snuck in gradually, binary searches > to try and isolate the CVS changes causing problems might be a good > strategy.
Thanks, I checked out CVS versions 2004-08-31 and 2004-09-30 of the X.org. I will test with this two snapshots on the weekend, and if the latter crashes while the former doesn't, then I will be able track down which is the latest CVS snapshot which works on my machine without crashes. Geller Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
