On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:08, Thomas Sailer wrote: 
> 
> XFree86 4.2.99.3 (RPMS from RedHat 8.0.93):
> 
> 7500:
> - scenery exhibits massive texturing errors (i.e. wrongly
>   colored/textured triangles)
> - aircraft instrument panel is drawn correctly
> - display freezes after roughly a minute. I could most of the time log
>   into the computer over the network, according to strace the X server
>   called the RADEON_CP_IDLE ioctl in a loop and was getting EBUSY all
>   the time. Killing the X server freezes the machine completely.

Those are common symptoms of a chip engine lockup.


> XFree86 4.2.99.901 (RPMS from Mike Harris):
> 
> 7500:
> - scenery still exhibits the texturing problems

You may find that this works better in DRI CVS, either on the trunk or
the texmem-0-0-1 branch. See http://dri.sf.net . Unfortunately, those
enhancements arrived too late for XFree86 4.3.0 .

> - the freezes are gone

That's great news! The recent DRI fixes seem to pay off.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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