Re: i830 DRM problems

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>>I am experiencing problems with DRM on my Dell Optiplex GX260.
> >>>I am running a Debian Sarge with Vanilla Linux 2.6.11 and XFree 4.3.0.
> >>>This one appeared while playing crack-attack and lead to a crash
> >>>of the X server.
> >>>
> >>
> >>a) does it work with 2.6.10?
> >>b) does it work if you turn off intelfb?
> >>
> > 
> > afacit we're still waiting for an answer from Brice on this one?
> 
> Sorry about that, we start to talk about it in private with Dave.
> But, I did not really it since Keenan Pepper told me it was due
> to a bug in the XFree 4.3 driver.
> I am now using Xorg and didn't see any DRM problem since.
> However, I can't confirm that my bug was surely due to the XFree driver 
> and not to the kernel driver since Xorg uses i915 instead of i830.
> Keenan, do you have details ?

OK, that sounds promising.  Would you view this as a regression?  Was XFree
4.3 working OK on earlier 2.6 kernels?


> I was also talking about a problem in intelfb on this box (i845G).
> Basically, it works great during startup. But from what I remember, it
> always crashes when switching from X to a text console.
> I'll try to debug this one soon.

Great.  Please cc linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and myself when
you have more.