I posted this on the sourceforge bug tracker but that place seems a little 
dead, and I have no interest currently in joining the kicad dev group since I 
cant contribute so hopefully posting the bug here might get it noticed 


Relevant information:

Radeon mobile x300 video card
Kernel 2.6.31
Xorg 1.7.1.902 (confirmed with other 1.7.1.x xorgs as well)
Kicad 20090216-final (also confirmed with latest svn build)

Description:
In PCBNEW, upon zooming in to zoom 50 or higher. Xorg crashes reporting a 
segmentation fault. (PCBnew goes with it as well, obviously)

This only happens when there is an graphical Arc on the drawing layer OR edges 
layer of the pcboard. Otherwise everything works as usual.

This only started happening on update from Xorg 1.6.9

I'm tempted to think its an xorg issue since it only started after an update. 
But considering how many bugs are reported on xorg, I wanted to report it here 
in order to get some insight on the issue and to have a more specific issue to 
report to the xorg devels (like segfault on this or that system call) rather 
than just "crashes on kicad zoom in".

Potentially something changed in the xorg api from 1.6 to 1.7 so it might be 
some kicad library misbehaving. But I know next to nothing about X so I cant 
confirm.

I'm running arch, and most of these packages havent trickled down to more 
stable distro's so I havent confirmed if it happens on other distro's/hardware.


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