On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 08:37:01 -0400 (EDT), Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:23:38 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I have had to go back to using >> >> Option "ExaNoComposite" "true" >> >> in the xorg.conf file. Although the patch you provided does prevent a crash >> during initialization, a number of rendering problems remain. Usually, I >> can recover the proper appearance of the screen by switching to a text >> console with Ctrl+Alt+F1, then switching back to the graphical console with >> Alt+F7; but after doing this a number of times, the X server usually crashes. >> Clearly there are other rendering problems with EXA not fixed by the patch. > > This will have to be addressed upstream.
Actually, the above-described problem seems to have more to do with the non-device-specific portions of the X server. Subsequent maintenance to jessie has fixed this problem. I am back to disabling the ExaNoComposite option again. I still have some minor rendering problems, particularly after the screen saver has kicked in, but the server doesn't crash anymore. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1109149809.13267.1405293893375.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
