Re: X not working with Radeon 9200 under 2.6.11

[Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>]

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> 
> It's a bit sad that xfree _used_ to work (2.6.9?) and now it doesn't work,
> and the fix is to switch to the x.org server.
> 
> Do we know what changed to cause this?  Was it deliberate?

Okay I installed Debian Sarge today and found a bug in the drm version
ioctls alright with the older interface that XFree86 4.3 uses...

Anyone want to test this patch (Andrew I'll put it my -mm tree ASAP)...

I'm still at a loss to reproduce the brige problems ppl are seeing..
time to switch to i865 chipset ...

Dave.

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===== drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c 1.63 vs edited =====
--- 1.63/drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c	2005-03-10 20:19:42 +11:00
+++ edited/drivers/char/drm/drm_drv.c	2005-03-24 17:07:16 +11:00
@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@
 	if (dev->driver->pretakedown)
 	  dev->driver->pretakedown(dev);
 
+	if (dev->unique) {
+		drm_free(dev->unique, strlen(dev->unique) + 1, DRM_MEM_DRIVER);
+		dev->unique = NULL;
+		dev->unique_len = 0;
+	}
+
 	if ( dev->irq_enabled ) drm_irq_uninstall( dev );
 
 	down( &dev->struct_sem );