I belive it was "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:00 pm, Myles Green wrote:
> > Just out of interest's sake, what was the solution if you don't
> > mind?
>
> It was a bug in XFree with Radeon DRI-
>
> diff -p -u -r1.32 radeon_dri.c
> --- programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_dri.c 2003/02/19 09:17:30
>
> 1.32
> +++ programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_dri.c 2003/03/17 01:43:24
> @@ -1585,6 +1585,7 @@ void RADEONDRICloseScreen(ScreenPtr pScr
> if (info->irq) {
> drmCtlUninstHandler(info->drmFD);
> info->irq = 0;
> + info->ModeReg.gen_int_cntl = 0;
> }
>
> /* De-allocate vertex buffers */
>
> And believe it or not.. if I had discovered this bugfix a few months
> ago, he would be running Gentoo.. (exact same trouble, I blamed it on
> XFree CVS and KDE CVS which I foolishly had running on there - good
> enough for me, good enough for him ;))
Gentoo or Slackware or <insert favorite linux distro here>, it's all
good. I'm just glad you were able to sort it out for the guy. BTW,
thanks for the info, disabling DRI =>seems<= to have solved an X server
crash that's been tormenting me for weeks now... or at least I hope it
has - there's been no crashes since then (almost an hour now ;-)).
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