If I choose the "ati" driver and have Option "AccelMethod" "EXA", Xorg will crash the system with a black screen when run. Also, I *think* it resulted in 100% CPU usage since my fan speed increased. Currently I don't have an Xorg log available, but it didn't contain why it crashed or anything, it just cut off. I'll attach my xorg.conf in the next bug report. X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12-ck5 i686 Current Operating System: Linux laptop 2.6.15 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 3 22:26:02 GMT 2006 i686 Build Date: 03 January 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present
Created attachment 4239 [details] Xorg config file
not very informative, you really do need to come up with a log file for this.
Created attachment 4264 [details] Xorg log Right, got a log from when I set the AccelMode to EXA.
mmm, that looks like successful startup. i assume the problem goes away if you use XAA. have you tried disabling DRI?
This looks suspisciously similar to Bug 4847 .... I can't reproduce the behaviour here, even with stupid options enabled. I am, however, on PPC.
Hmm well I checked bug 4847 and, while similar, this one seems slightly different. Essentially, no matter what other options I choose, EXA will hang my xserver, XAA will let it startup fine.
I am experiencing something similar with an ATI Radeon 9250 256 Meg card. I can start xserver cvs with exa without the drm modules, and it works. When I load the drm modules the xserver cvs fully loads, but the screen either loads blank or it completely loads gdm, but it is unusable. The end result with the drm modules is that after about 1 minute the computer freezes. No more interupts are accepted by the CPU. This is easy to see because no system activity occurs, and the network card won't respond, and neither will the keyboard. I think this is a memory mapping issue. DRM and XAA acceleration with the xserver cvs works the way it should.
(In reply to comment #7) When did you last update from CVS? Does it also happen with the recently created ati-1-0-branch CVS branch?
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Closing this one due to the lack of activity from the bug poster. Please reopen if Michels suggestion didn't resolve your issue.
Err sorry. It's just that my laptop died finally and I replaced my desktop's video card with an nVidia one a while ago (since it began to malfunction), so I currently don't have access to any of the hardware I could reproduce the bug on
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