submitter 324717 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:13 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Michel Dänzer said: > > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:47 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> [...] since it was happening on a twice-daily basis > >> using the 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 packages, and only happens once every few days > >> since I backed down to -4, that is where my suspicions lie. > > > > I don't see any obviously related changes in the changelog between -4 > > and -5 though... > > There was the compiler change in there, though. The mis-optimization may > have been beneficial in some corner case in the Radeon driver. (handwave, > handwave)
Yeah, that's the most likely change to have such a quantitative impact I guess. > >> Can anyone suggest how to debug this sort of crash? I'm willing to try > >> just about anything. > > > > First of all, does disabling the DRI work around the problem? > > I'll try that, but as I have no reliable way to reproduce the problem, I > will only be able to provide a guess, and that only after several days. > GL wasn't ever in use at the time of the crashes, though. That doesn't matter too much; with DRI enabled, the X driver uses a completely different method (DMA ring buffer as opposed to direct register address) to send commands to the card. > (I'll go back to -5 at the same time, to increase the odds of provoking > the bug if it isn't due to DRI.) Yeah, that's what I meant. > > PS: This should probably be a bug report instead of only a list thread. > > It did not seem useful to submit a bug report with this level of vagueness > about the cause. If you would prefer a bug report I can certainly file > one. Looks like David Martínez Moreno beat you to it. Trying to set you as the submitter of bug #324717. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
