Michel Dänzer said: >> > 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 did not know that. Fascinating. I've now reinstalled xserver-xorg -5, disabled DRI in xorg.conf and in /etc/modules, and rebooted the computer. I will report in a couple days whether or not there have been any crashes. Should I also prevent hotplug from loading the agpgart and ati_agp modules? zw
