On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:51:15AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:53, Joss Winn wrote: > > Finally got around to taking your advice and installed the > > dri-trunk-sid packages: > > > > xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2003.05.04-1_powerpc.deb > > xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk_2003.05.04-1_powerpc.deb > > drm-trunk-module-src_2003.05.04-1_all.deb > > > > and compiled and installed the modules. > > > > However, still no joy: it doesn't fail as early as it did but X > > takes up so much cpu power logging into gnome that the system > > freezes. > > Does just X freeze and take up all CPU (a typical symptom of a DRI > related lockup), or does really the whole system freeze (which might > indicate a worse problem)? > >
It takes up all the CPU. I've switched to a console as soon as I've logged in and can see X taking up large chunks of cpu. When I switch back to X, this increases to 99% cpu and nothing responds. > > Like I said a while back, DRI has worked very well on this machine > > under X 4.1 > > In the worst case, you could stay with a 4.1 server... (assuming it's > the server that makes the difference) > > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer > Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer --
