PPC DRM graphics testing

[Andreas Tobler]

On 09.11.12 07:30, matt wrote:
> On 11/07/12 13:16, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>> So. Newer ati packages did not improve. I then decided to start from a
>> clean base, no debug Xorg, no debug radeon driver etc. I cleaned,
>> deinstalled and reinstalled first the xorg-server then the dri and
>> afterwards the same for the xf86-video-ati. The order of dri and ati
>> does not matter I think. Having done this, I was able to run the
>> 3D-demos.... yeah! The kernel has WITTNES and friends commented, also
>> DRM_DEBUG is off. Here the excerpts from the Xorg.log: X.Org X Server
>> 1.7.7 Module radeon: compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 6.14.3 Andreas 
> It did not work here :(
> I am using WITH_NEW_XORG, could be that

That is one difference, don't know how big/important. I will try to play
with WITH_NEW_XORG.

> It hung with one of the standard backtraces, starting in a polygon fill
> and ending waiting for the card to respond with ioctl.
> I can reproduce the hang every time by browsing to youtube.com and
> clicking on a video or running glxgears.
> I'm currently thinking I will start fresh with this system to rule out
> contamination from testing various drivers and versions.
> First with old Xorg as well, as I'm not sure new xorg is helping much.
> 
> Do you have anything interesting in xorg.conf or drirc? I've been
> testing a pretty plain xorg.conf and no drirc.

xorg.conf is Xorg configured except the pciid setting, "AllowEmptyInput
" off and the swiss german keyboard.
I have no driconf/drirc at least I didn't find one...

Andreas