X600 driver instability?

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 05:09:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 00:34 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 12:55 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to stabilise the 3D driver again for compiz, we've rewritten
> > radeon support pretty much from scratch for F10 so I'm now fixing the
> > bugs.
> 
> It's worth saying, this is an F-9 install, with the latest kernel. I do
> run rawhide, but only under virtual machines with emulated hardware.
> 
> > Isn't desktop effect unuseably slow for you? I thought the speed might
> > stop people from using it long before the crashing.
> 
> Nope, actually for over a year X600 was perfectly rock solid, desktop
> effects worked just fantastic, and I was actually able to make people
> who looked at my machine think "hey, this desktop Linux thing aint
> bad" (ok, they might just think "this Linux thing" there).
> 
> So whatever happened in recent *F-9* updates broke it :)

Oh that isn't good, I didn't think I'd done much in recent F9 updates.

Try pulling back to the older F9 xorg-x11-drv-ati, say -15.

If its the kernel it must be something I've upstreamed.

Dave.





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