On Die, 2002-11-19 at 09:24, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Michel D�nzer wrote: > > I can't give a definite answer but only an educated guess: with the HW > > cursor, Silken mouse may also be used, meaning that the cursor position > > is updated asynchronously, which may trigger a race condition in the > > driver. If this hypothesis is correct, the HW cursor shouldn't lock up > > if you start the server with the -nosilk option. > > What sort of race condition are you thinking of? The HWCursor code in > the driver does no wait's or anything, it just sets a few registers in > the MMIO area.
I suspect that may exactly be the problem. It may interfere with other MMIO register access, overflowing the chip's FIFO or similar. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
