Re: i830 DRM problems

[Brice Goglin]

Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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?


From what I remember, X had never been stable on this box.
So I'll vote for no regression here.
The main reason for this bug report was that I was tired
of getting a crash, say every two weeks. But now Xorg works
great.

Regards,

Brice
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