Since the last radeon/xorg/mesa update things have been rather ropey on two different boxen, both of which run stable arch with enlightenment as a desktop. On one of them (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670) it has been impossible to work in LibreOffice without a complete lock up of the desktop. On the second more modern system running a Kaveri APU things are more stable, but crashes will occur there too eventually.
From what I have noticed the desktop appears to freeze completely when I happen to hover over a region in an application window, which generates a tooltip popup. The popup boundary shows up faintly, its content does not and the desktop is by then completely frozen. Ctrl+Alt+End which should restart the composer, does not. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace kills the X session leaving a number of defunct elements behind, like gkrellm. This is what Xorg.0.log shows: [ 72.222] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 4589 [ 72.222] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 72.222] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 139.00 1920 1950 1970 2014 1080 1090 1100 1150 +hsync -vsync (69.0 kHz eP) [ 72.280] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 4589 [ 72.280] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [ 72.280] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 139.00 1920 1950 1970 2014 1080 1090 1100 1150 +hsync -vsync (69.0 kHz eP) [ 2959.045] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 10233.208] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 11233.683] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 16428.902] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 20362.524] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 21153.995] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 22280.381] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 24035.370] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter [ 25107.370] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch Any idea how I can overcome this problem. I makes any work on the desktop a precarious activity, but especially so on LO which is guaranteed to crash. -- Regards, Mick
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