I have found two repeatable crashes on my system running 4.3.0 and a stock mga driver. One is a crash when the server is unable to load the mga_hal module for a dualhead setup that requires it; apparently it does not gracefully fall out and the entire system locks up. Another is when my server has been up for a few days, any mode change or VT switch will suddenly cause a complete system hang. I think this is again due to a crash. The problem is that when using a static debug server, neither of these problems is happening.
Is it a usually effective approach to build a loadable debug server? Are there any special tricks needed to debug module problems under such a setup? I am also curious if there are any hooks that the server uses to restore the video hardware into a sane state when it receives a fatal signal. If it exists, apparently this is not working correctly on mga; these server crashes should not be resulting in system hangs. -- Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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