Re: i830 DRM problems

[Keenan Pepper]

> 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 ?

Yes, I talked to Alan Hourihane about it and he identified it as a 
memory allocation bug in the i810 X server driver. It's not related to 
DRI - it happens even with DRI turned off - so it wouldn't matter which 
DRM module is being used.
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