On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:39:36PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:32:51PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:23, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:19:02PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > > > > It's probably the 3D driver or the DRM that causes it, not the X server. > > > > > > What do you mean in this context by "the 3D driver"? > > > > r128_dri.so . > > > > > All I know for sure is that I was still using the same kernel version > > > and kernel DRM module that used to work with XFree86 4.2.1, and now > > > I get lockups after upgrading X, so I blame X. > > > > Can you verify which one actually makes the difference? > > Well, isn't that interesting. Because my last upgrade was an 'apt-get > upgrade' rather than dist-upgrade, I still have xlibmesa3-gl 4.2.1-16 > installed. It's loading that module into the new X server. Maybe > that's the problem? > > I'll upgrade it and see if the problem persists.
Some clarfications: _dri.so objects don't get loaded into the X server; they are dlopened() by the Mesa library. You'll also notice they're not installed to the same place as XFree86 X server modules. They're also named ".so", whereas XFree86 X server modules are named ".a" or ".o". Contrast: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/debug/r128_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/r128_dri.so with: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o If you were to argue that these paths could be laid out so as to make the distinction more easily apprehended, I would probably agree. -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the Debian GNU/Linux | long road from capitalism to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | capitalism. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Russian saying
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