On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:38, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:59:29AM +0000, Tom wrote:
> > I tried xfree-cvs from saturday, and then i had two problems i hadn't
> > with 4.2.0 (from gentoo):
> > - xfree was very long to first start, when kdm was launched, hard disk
> > working a lot (a sort of font processing ?)
> > - when i first launch the X server there is no problem, but if i switch
> > vt or i restart it, it freezes, and i need to reboot, very annoying
> > :o/...
>
> The VT switch problem only occurred on DRI-using setups. What you could
> try to do to confirm is to ssh into the machine after it has crashed when
> you switched to a VT and do a lspci -vv. If the Radeon has a "BusMaster-"
> flag instead of "BusMaster+" and your X is using DRI, it is this specific
> VT switch lockup.
I rerun the test with dri enabled :
the steps :
- startx > go to vt7
- ctrl + alt + f1 > go to vt1
- ctrl + alt + f7 > go to vt7
I attached the lspci -vv outputs for radeon between the steps, and my
XFree.0.log.
It seems my problem dont show "BusMater-"...
But the problem remains, the Screen is freezed.. and i cannot do anything >>
reboot.
I dont have the problem with 4.2.0 :o/...
It seems, it lacks a sort of reinitialisation of the graphics.. (wich is done
in 4.2..).
Thanks for ur advice. :o).
Thomas
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