From: Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit b1ee26b "radeonfb: accelerate imageblit and other improvements" freezes system on switching from X to text console
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:13:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125231344.GA5190@soziologie.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081125194457.GA4929@soziologie.ch>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:44:57PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Hi Ben
>
> The changes in the commit mentioned in the subject freeze my system when
> changing from X to a text console. The system freezes with a garbled
> display. Reverting this commit fixes the problem.
>
> The freeze only happens if DRI is enabled in X. It also does not happen
> if I simply switch between different text consoles.
>
OK, I searched a bit more and found
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11875 which is possibly
related. I also found the patch Ben proposed to fix this at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/10/12. Unfortunately this patch did not fix
my problem.
Gaudenz
--
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett ~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 19:44 Gaudenz Steinlin
2008-11-25 23:13 ` Gaudenz Steinlin [this message]
2008-11-26 9:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-26 9:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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