Re: i830 DRM problems

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> 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